Dr Alex Marlow-Mann

After completing undergraduate studies in Film Studies and Italian at the University of Kent, Dr Alex Marlow-Mann pursued graduate studies in Film Archiving at the University of East Anglia and obtained a PhD in Italian film from the University of Reading. 

Alex has held positions in both film studies and modern languages at the Universities of Leeds, St Andrews and Birmingham before returning to Kent to take up his current position in 2015. He worked for both the National Film and Television Archive and the Filmographic Department of the British Film Institute and as theatre manager of the Reading Film Theatre. He also spent several years living and working in Italy, in both Pisa and Naples.

Alex's virtual office hours take place on Wednesday 11:00-13:00

Alex's research interests include

• Italian & world cinema
• Film & politics
• Regional cinemas
• Film festivals
• Film archiving
• Popular genre cinema (especially thrillers, musicals, and horror)

In 2018 he co-wrote and co-produced the feature-length documentary That’s La Morte: Italian Cult Cinema and the Years of Lead.    

He is currently completing a monograph on The Political Thriller in Its Global Context, forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press.

Alex was one of the founding members of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies and sits on the editorial boards of the journals Film Studies, Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, Open Screens and Cine-Excess, as well as on the executive committee of the Film, Media and Culture Research Group. He is also joint series editor of the Routledge book series Remapping World Cinema.

Alex would welcome research proposals on any aspect of Italian cinema or on topics related to his research interests.  

Alex teaches modules on film (Film Analysis, Film Theory, European Political Cinema), modern Italian culture (film, music, literature) and Italian language (with a particular emphasis on translation) in the Departments of Modern Languages and Film and Media.