Hollie Price

Biography

I completed my PhD in Film Studies at Queen Mary, University of London in 2015. I have since taught in the Film Studies departments at Queen Mary, King’s College London and the University of Sussex.

Before joining Keele in 2022, I was Postdoctoral Research Fellow on AHRC-funded projects about the British Ministry of Information’s work during the Second World War (2016-18) and the career of filmmaker, writer and feminist scholar Jill Craigie (2019-21). I also worked as research assistant on the second edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Film Studies (2020).

I am currently on research leave leading 'The Four Corners Film Workshop: Independent Filmmaking and Exhibition in East London, 1975-1990', an AHRC-funded  project in collaboration with the Four Corners Film and Photography Centre in Bethnal Green. The project will run from July 2024-January 2026, and will include an exhibition and a programme of film screenings and talks.

Research and scholarship

My research mainly focuses on British film and media history, and I am currently working on feminist histories of social realism, collective and community-based filmmaking, and postwar film stardom.

I have published a book on domestic life and modernity in British 1940s cinema (Manchester University Press, 2021) and co-edited a collection on representations of home in literature and visual culture (Routledge, 2017). I have also written about film stardom, focusing on popular husband-and-wife acting duo Michael Denison and Dulcie Gray (2015) and the homes of Vivien Leigh (2017).

As a postdoctoral research fellow on the Ministry of Information project (2016-18), I worked on the development of the MoI’s Films Division during the Second World War – focusing on animated propaganda films (2019) and the division’s non-theatrical film networks in the UK (2021), and I am contributing a chapter to Information at War, a new history of the Ministry’s work (forthcoming, 2022).

On the Jill Craigie: Film Pioneer project (2019-21), I was associate producer and archive researcher on Independent Miss Craigie, a feature-length documentary exploring Craigie’s life and work (Lizzie Thynne, 2021). I co-edited a special issue of the Journal of British Cinema and Television on women in British film and documentary cultures 1930-55 (with Yvonne Tasker, Sadie Wearing and Christine Geraghty, 2021), and my research arising from the project has been published in Screen (2022) and Critical Studies in Television (forthcoming, 2022).

I am on the editorial board for Frames Cinema Journal.

Teaching

I convene the following modules:

• Modern European Film and Television
• Film and Culture
• Gender and the Cinematic Gaze
• British Social Realism

Further information

As a supervisor, I would welcome projects on topics including:

British film history; social realism and documentary; independent filmmaking and exhibition; women’s film and media history; film collectives and co-operatives; regional or local film histories; ephemeral/non-theatrical cinema; class, gender, sexuality and race; postcolonialism; housing, domesticity and domestic labour; feminism, femininity and girlhood; film stardom.