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Samantha Colling

Senior Lecturer in Film and Media, Manchester Metropolitan University

Samantha Colling is a Senior Lecturer in Film and Media and has been teaching in the field for more than ten years.

She completed her PhD, which explored the relationships between film, pleasure, and affect, at The Manchester Institute for Research and Innovation in Art and Design, her Masters in Screen Studies at the University of Manchester, and her BA (Hons) Drama at the University of Hull.

Samantha’s monograph The Aesthetic Pleasures of Girl Teen Film (2017) explores new ways of thinking about pleasure and fun in relation to film, with a particular focus on millennial girl teen films and the kinds of affects that they are designed to create. She has a forthcoming chapter ‘Feeling Like a Teenage Lesbian: the sex scenes in The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018) and Make Up (2019)’ in Screening Sex: The Sex Scene – Representation, Performance, Aesthetics and is currently working on a project titled Sex in Reality Television: 2000-2020.