Alison Taylor

Alison Taylor is a Dr Semester Teaching Fellow at Bond University's Faculty of Society & Design, with affiliations at the Transformation Colab (DPE). Her academic work focuses on film studies, particularly European art cinema and screen aesthetics.

Her research interests include:

• Screen aesthetics
• European art cinema
• Violence and the everyday
• Performance

Taylor's scholarly contributions span film analysis, with particular focus on directors like Andrzej Żuławski, Michael Haneke, and Nicolas Winding Refn. Her book Troubled Everyday (Edinburgh UP 2017) explores the intersection between screen aesthetics, violence, and the everyday in contemporary European art cinema. She has also published a monograph on Żuławski's Possession (1981) as part of Liverpool University Press's Devil's Advocates series on horror cinema (2022).

Her recent publications (2021-2025) demonstrate continued engagement with film analysis, horror cinema, and European film traditions. Taylor frequently contributes to film commentary through podcasts like Talking Hitchcock, where she provides scholarly insights on classic and contemporary films.

Taylor's work shows a consistent pattern of examining how cinematic techniques shape audience perception, particularly regarding violence, performance, and the boundaries between ordinary and extraordinary experiences in film.