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Dr. Samantha Colling serves as a Senior Lecturer in Film and Media within the School of English at Manchester Metropolitan University, bringing over a decade of teaching experience to her role. Her academic profile centers on the intersection of cinematic form, audience reception, and embodied affect.
Her educational foundation includes:
- PhD in Film and Media from The Manchester Institute for Research and Innovation in Art and Design
- MA in Screen Studies from the University of Manchester
- BA (Hons) in Drama from the University of Hull
Colling's research pioneers innovative frameworks for analyzing pleasure and affect in visual media, with sustained focus on millennial girl teen cinema and emerging work on reality television. She examines how cinematic techniques generate embodied responses, particularly through music video aesthetics and representations of sexuality, employing feminist and queer theoretical lenses to challenge traditional audience reception models. Her methodology blends close textual analysis with audience studies to explore how media constructs gendered emotional experiences.
Her publication trajectory reveals evolving scholarly priorities: beginning with foundational work on girl teen film aesthetics in her 2017 monograph, she expanded into muscular bonding dynamics in female-centric musicals, then progressed toward contemporary analyses of lesbian representation and sexuality across film and reality television. This trajectory demonstrates consistent theoretical innovation while maintaining focus on marginalized audience experiences and pleasure politics.
Though student advisement details remain unpublicized, Colling actively pursues collaborative knowledge exchange through projects like the AHRC-funded Research in Translation initiative and the community-engaged Creating Our Future Histories project with Dance Manchester, demonstrating commitment to translating academic research into public-facing outputs.
Her collaborative practice extends to interdisciplinary partnerships including the Dance Manchester initiative examining dance's impact on young men, and the University of Leicester exhibition project translating film theory into visual displays. These projects highlight her dedication to bridging academic research with community engagement and public scholarship through film production and exhibition design.
