richard nowell

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Richard Nowell is a film historian and theorist specialising in the production history of genres and film cycles, contemporary American popular cinema, American independent cinema, history of reception, and the relationship between Hollywood and Europe. Richard graduated from the University of Nottingham (MA) and obtained his doctoral degree at the School of Film and Television, University of East Anglia in 2010. Since 2024, he has been a lecturer at FAMU where he also works as a member of the Comfort Media research team. He has lectured at the University of Heidelberg and is currently a lecturer in Territorial Studies at the Faculty of Social Science, Charlies University and in Film History at CIEE in addition to supervising doctoral seminars at the Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture of the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University of Brno and at AMU. He wrote the monograph Blood Money: A History of the First Teen Slasher Cycle (2010) and edited the anthology Merchants of Menace: The Business of Horror Cinema (2014). His studies were published in Cinema Journal, New Review of Film and Television Studies, and Journal of Film and Video.