Dr Sean Holmes
Reader in Film and Television Studies
Gaskell Building 162
- Email: sean.holmes@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 266832
- Film & Television
- Theatre, Music and Film/TV
- Arts and Humanities
- College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences
Teaching
Sean teaches modules on The Western, Post-War European Cinema, and Crime Cinema. He is presently exploring ways of making connections between his research and his teaching by drawing students into the process of conducting oral history interviews with men and women who have spent their working lives in the British film and television industries.Activities:
Edited with Andrew Dawson. Working in the Global Film and Television Industries: Systems, Space, Patronage, and Creativity (London: Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming 2012).
“Vaudeville” in Lynn Dumenil, ed., Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2012).
“All Work or No Play: Key Themes in the History of the American Stage Actor as Worker,” European Journal of American Studies 2 (2008), document 6. Online since December 2, 2008. URL: http://ejas.revues.org/5673.
“Actors’ Equity Association” in Eric Arnesen, ed., Encyclopedia of Labor and Working-Class History (New York and Oxford: Routledge, 2007), 8-13.
“Actors’ Strike of 1919” in Eric Arnesen, ed., Encyclopedia of Labor and Working-Class History (New York and Oxford: Routledge, 2007), 13-14.
“Canned Cooking: Stage Actors, Screen Acting, and Cultural Hierarchy in the United States, 1912-1929,” Journal of American Drama and Theatre 17 (Winter 2005), 5-24.
“And the Villain Still Pursued Her: The Actors’ Equity Association in Hollywood, 1919-1929,” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television 25 (March 2005), 27-50.
“All the World’s A Stage: The Actors’ Strike of 1919,” Journal of American History 91 (March 2005), 1291-1317.
“The Shuberts and the Actors’ Equity Association, 1913-1924,” The Passing Show: The Journal of the Shubert Archives (2003), 21-32.
“When Elmer Met Juanita: Organized Labor and Women War Workers in the Toledo Flat Glass Industry, 1941-45,” Northwest Ohio Quarterly 73 (Summer/Fall 2001), 142-161.
“The Hollywood Star System and the Regulation of Actors’ Labour, 1916-1934,” Film History 12 (2000), 97-114