Weddings and Funerals: The UK Screen Industries in Global Context (Liverpool, 2024)
"The UK Film Industry and US Indie Film: A Special Relationship” The COSME Perspective: Converging Screen Industries in the UK panel at Weddings and Funerals: The UK Screen Industries in Global Context (Liverpool, 2024)
"'Exploiting Around the Clock': The Dissemination of Rock 'n' Roll Music through American Cinema” at Greatest Hits @ The Institute of Popular Music, (Liverpool, 2024)
“A Different Class of Movie Product: New Line Cinema’s Establishment of Fine Line Features and the Restructuring of the American Film Industry" at Media Industries Conference (London, 2024)
Hollywood Runaway Production: New Perspectives on a Global Phenomenon panel at Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference (Boston, 2024)
"When Fox Came to Greece … via Italy: Boy on a Dolphin and the Establishment of Greece as a Hollywood Runaway Production Destination" at Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference (Boston, 2024)
Establishing a Type of Hollywood in Greece’: Runaway Productions and the ‘Priming’ of Greece as a Hollywood Production Destination in the 1950s,” Internationalising Greek Screen Industries: Greece, Hollywood and the Streamers panel at Locating Media Industries: Cities, Spaces, Places (London, 2023)
New Directions in Cinema and Youth Cultures Research Symposium (Liverpool, 2023)
Indie TV: Indie Cinema’s Evolution in an Increasingly Converged Media Landscape or A New TV Form? at Society of Cinema and Media Studies Conference (Denver, USA, 2023)
“Indie (Film on) TV: A Tale of Two Very Close Friends,” at Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference (Denver, 2023)
Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference (2021)
“‘Acting Indie’ and Growing Older: How the 1980s Teen Film Stars Created American Indie Cinema in the 1990s” at Screen Conference (2019)
United Artists 1979-2019: The Evolution of a Hollywood Major Studio into a Specialty Film Division at Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference (2019)
Retrenching/Entrenching Youth: Mobility and Stasis in Youth Culture Representations on Screen Conference (Liverpool, 2018)
The Hollywood Renaissance Revisited: New Perspectives on American Cinema’s most Celebrated Era” at Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference (2018)
From Exploitation to Legitimacy: Easy Rider’s Failed Production and Distribution Deal at American International Pictures, at Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference (2018)
A Sector in Transition: Opportunities and Challenges in American independent cinema’s Industrial Infrastructure in the 21st Century at Media Industry Studies: Current Debates and Future Directions Conference (2018)
“10 Years after the ‘Great Studio Pullback of 2008’: American Independent Film Theatrical Distribution in the (partly) post-Hollywood Specialty Film Divisions Era” at Media Industry Studies: Current Debates and Future Directions Conference (2018)
The Unknown Greek Cinema: New Cartographies, New Protagonists, New Discoveries of The Past (1945-1967) (2015)
“De-conglomeratising Hollywood: When United Artists Became Orion Pictures,” at Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference (2019)
“Legitimising Exploitation: Easy Rider (1969) and Independent Cinema’s Journey to Hollywood” at The American New Wave: A Retrospective Conference (2017)
“Rocking around the Clock in Music and Film: Adaptation and/as Exploitation in Rock Around the Clock (1956)” at Film Adaptation: Theory, Practices, Reception Conference (2017)
Historiographical Approaches and Challenges in Researching the Centennial History of the Hollywood Film Studios workshop at Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference (2017)
“What Makes a Film ‘Greek’: Inward Investment, International Aspirations and the Case of Jules Dassin’s Pote tin Kyriaki/Never on Sunday (1960)” at Screen Conference (2016)
“The Bigger Picture: Or How American Independent Cinema Studies Can Benefit from Media (Industry) Studies” at What is Media Studies? Conference (2016)
“In the Shadow of The Wild One, Blackboard Jungle, and Rebel Without A Cause: Rock Around the Clock and its 'Independent' Look at the Youth of the 1950s” at Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference (2016)
“Narrative Convenience and Ideological Support: (Working Class) Maids and the Survival of (Middle Class) Couplehood" at Servants and Maids in Greek Art, Society and History Conference (2016)
“Giving a Voice to Greek American Women: Nia Vardalos, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, and Contemporary US Indie Cinema” at Independent Film (and) Women (2015)
Independent Film (and) Women Conference (2015)
From 20th Century to 21st Century Fox: An Entertainment Conglomerate in Transition panel at Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference (Montreal, 2015)
“Fox Searchlight: A Specialty Film Studio Division in Transition Following the Consolidation of the US Independent Film Sector in the late 2010s” at Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference (Montreal, 2015)
TV is the New Cinema: Exploring the Dissolution of Boundaries between two Media Symposium (Liverpool, 2014)
“‘Independent’, ‘Indie’ and ‘Indiewood’ Documentaries: US Feature Documentary and American Independent Cinema” at What is Documentary? Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Conference (Portland, 2014)
“Between 'Indiewood' and ‘'Nowherewood': American Independent Cinema in the 21st Century" at New Directions in Film and Television Production Studies Conference (Bristol, 2015)
“‘Independent,’ ‘Indie,’ and ‘Indiewood’ Film Performance” at Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference (Seattle, 2014)
“American Independent Women Filmmakers” at Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference (Seattle, 2014)
The Independent Film Project and the Mainstreaming of American Independent Cinema at Independent States Conference, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Independent States Conference, 2014)
Approaching Media Industries: Trends, Methods, Perspectives Symposium (Liverpool, 2013)
Indie Doc: Documentary Film in the Age of Contemporary American Independent Cinema panel at Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference (Chicago, 2013)
“‘From the Margins to the Mainstream’: Documentary Film and American ‘Independent’, ‘Indie’ and ‘Indiewood’ Filmmaking” at Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference (Chicago, 2013)
“Indie” Politics: Political Filmmaking and Contemporary US Independent Cinema panel at Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference (Boston, 2012)
“Americans, Anti-Americans in Love”: Gender Politics and Global Geopolitics in Whit Stillman’s Barcelona (1994)” at Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference (Boston, 2012)
New Directions in the Study of American Independent Cinema: A Symposium (Liverpool, 2011)
“American Independent Cinema in the Age of Convergence” at New Directions in the Study of American Independent Cinema: A Symposium (Liverpool, 2011)
Declarations of Independence: Rediscovering Dirty Dancing panel at Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference (New Orleans, 2011)
“High Concept Independence or the First Example of “Indiewood”? The Curious Case of Dirty Dancing” at Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference (New Orleans, 2011)
“Reclaiming Independence: The By-passing of Theatrical Distribution and Exhibition in Recent US Independent Film Practices” at Big Screen vs Small Screen International Conference (Kent, 2011)
“Marketing Contemporary American Independent Film: United Artists Classics and the First Wave of Classics Divisions in the 1980s” at CinEcoSA international conference: Approaches to Film and Television Marketing in the Age of Globalisation (Paris, 2010)
"The Independent, the Indie, and Indiewood: Towards a Periodisation of Contemporary (post-1980) American Independent Cinema” at Independence in the Cinema France/United States Symposium (Paris, 2010)
“After the Independent, the Indie and Indiewood: The Ever-changing Discourse(s) of Contemporary American Independent Cinema” at What is Cinema? Change and Continuity in the 21st Century Conference (Portland, 2009)
American Independent Cinema: Past, Present, Future (Liverpool, 2009)
“The Bare Essentials: Narrative Holes and the Beginnings of Anti-Classicism in David Mamet’s Cinema” at American Independent Cinema: Past, Present, Future (Liverpool, 2009)
Adapting Oleanna for Screen: Independent Cinema and Film Adaptation at Crossings: David Mamet's Work in Different Media and Genres Conference, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Brussels, 2008)
“Film Acting in Contemporary American Independent Film: David Mamet’s ‘Practical Aesthetics’ in Action” at The Actor between Stage and the Screen Conference (Thessaloniki, 2007)
“Adapting Oleanna for the Screen: Film Adaptation and the Institutional Apparatus of American Independent Cinema” at Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association Conference (San Diego, 2005)
“Marketing David Mamet: From Metteur en Scène to Auteur” at 2nd International Conference on David Mamet (London, 2004)
“The-Auteur-in-the-Trailer: Towards an Alternative Construction of Authorship in the Films of David Mamet” at Texts, Ma®kers, Markets Conference (York, 2003)
"A Film full of Games or ‘That’s What You Think You Saw’: Narration as a Con Game in David Mamet’s House of Games” at The North East Modern Language Association (NEMLA) Convention (Toronto, 2002)
“‘Don’t Trust Nobody’: Film Style and Narration as Con Games in David Mamet’s House of Games” at Fakes and Forgeries, Conmen and Counterfeits Conference (Durham, 2002)
“The Dramatic and the Narrative: Adapting Mamet’s Oleanna” at Serial Narratives Conference (Liverpool, 2002)
Editorships
International Screen Industries series (co-editor, 2024 - present)
Media Industries (Invited Advisory Board, 2018 - present)
American Indies Book Series (Co-Editor, 2009 - 2013)
The New Review of Film and Television Studies (Invited Advisory Board, 2002 - 2017)
Media Industry Project, University of California Santa Barbara (Advisory Board, 2013 - 2018)
Event Roles
COSME AND LCF Research Seminar (Talk/Lecture, 2024 - present)
“Acting Indie: Authors Talk”, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Performance and Stardom Scholarly Interest Group (Talk/Lecture, 2024 - present)
Centre for Converged Screen Media and Entertainment Research Colloquium (Workshop, 2024 - present)
Exploiting around the Clock Sam Katzman and the Genesis of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Film at Sheffield Hallam University's Film and TV Research Group Seminar (Talk/Lecture, Sheffield Hallam University, 2022 - present)
When Hollywood Came to Greece, 1957-1967 at Columbia University Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, New York (via Zoom), 2021)
From Hydra to Los Angeles: The runaway productions in Greece at From Hydra to Los Angeles: Hollywood Runaway Productions in Greece, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Thessaloniki Greece, 2020 - present)
Midnight Cowboy: 60 years at Midnight Cowboy: 60 Years (Talk/Lecture, Manchester, UK, 2019 - present)
“American Independent Cinema in the Age of Specialty Media Content” at Edge Hill Research Seminar, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Ormskirk, 2017)
The End of Indiewood or Its Further Integration with Hollywood? 'The Great Studio Pullback' of the late 2000s and its Impact on American Independent Film" at University of Exeter Film Seminar, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Exeter, 2013)
"'Dirty Dancing' and American Independent Cinema" at University of Bourgogne, Dijon Seminar, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, University of Bourgogne, France, 2013)
An Accidental Experiment: 'Dirty Dancing' (1987) and the Convergence between Hollywood and American In at Goldsmiths University Radical Film Seminar, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Goldsmiths University Research Seminar, 2013)
“Inventing Indiewood: 'Dirty Dancing' (1987) between Corporate Hollywood and American Independent Cinema” at University of Glamorgan Film Seminar, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Cardiff, 2013)
"A Cinema of Games: Narration and the Con Game Film" at School of Theatre and Musicology, University of Crete Postgraduate Seminar, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Rethymnon, 2012)
“The Complications of Independence: Specialty Filmmaking in the Age of Studio Divisions” at University of Portsmouth, Centre for Cultural and Creative Research Seminar, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Portsmouth, 2012)
“American Independent Cinema and the First Wave of Classics Divisions” at Oxford Brookes University School of Arts and Humanities Seminar, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Oxford, 2011)
"The Con Artist Film Outside Hollywood: Regional Variations of An American Genre" at University of Liverpool School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies Research Seminar, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Liverpool, 2009)
"Conning all over the world: Con Artist and Con Game Films Outside Hollywood" at University of Salford Film Research Seminar, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Salford, 2008)
“Co-dependence and Symbiosis, or What Lessons Should Academic Researchers Learn from the History of American Independent Cinema" at University of Birmingham, Institute for Economic Development Policy Discussion Paper Series, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Birmingham, 2008)
Examination Roles
King's College London MA Global Media Industries (PGT, 2023 - present)
University of Liverpool, University of Liverpool PhD Examination Communication and Media Studies (2024)
University of Nottingham PhD Examination Film Studies (2024)
University of Wolverhampton, University of Wolverhampton PhD Examination Film Studies (2022)
Queen Mary University of London, Queen Mary University PhD Examination Film Studies (2022)
Macquarie University, Macquarie University PhD Examination Business and Media Studies (2022)
De Montfort University, De Montfort University PhD Examination Film Studies (2021)
University of Leicester, University of Leicester PhD Examination Film Studies (2020)
University of Oxford, University of Oxford PhD Examination Modern Greek Studies (2019)
Northumbria University, Northumbria University PhD Examination Film Studies (2019)
University of Exeter, University of Exeter PhD Examination Film Studies (2019)
University of Glasgow, University of Glasgow PhD Examination Film Studies (2014)
European University Institute, European University Institute PhD Examination European History and Culture (2010)
University of Reading, University of Reading PhD Examination Film Studies (2009)
Edge Hill University, Edge Hill University MPhil Film Studies (2016)
University of Glamorgan, University of Glamorgan MPhil Examination Film Studies (2012)
University of Kent BA Film Studies (UG, 2020 - 2021)
University of Kent, University of Kent BA Film Studies (UG, 2019 - 2020)
University of Kent, University of Kent BA Film Studies (UG, 2018 - 2019)
University of Kent, University of Kent BA Film Studies (UG, 2017 - 2018)
University of Otago MA Film Studies Examination (PGT, 2016 - 2017)
University of Portsmouth, University of Portsmouth MA Film and Television Studies (PGT, 2015 - 2016)
University of Portsmouth, University of Portsmouth MA Film and Television Studies (PGT, 2014 - 2015)
University of Portsmouth, University of Portsmouth MA Film and Television Studies (PGT, 2013 - 2014)
University of Portsmouth, University of Portsmouth MA Film and Television Studies (PGT, 2012 - 2013)
Expert Opinions
"In Conversation with Caryn Mandabach", Invited (University College Dublin, 2024)
Tales of Cinema, Invited (Noon Films, 2022)
"Why Biopics Go So Wrong”, Invited (2021)
“Waterworld at 25: Reappraising Cinema’s Biggest Flop”, Invited (2020)
‘How “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life” Saved ‘Dirty Dancing’, Invited (2020)
Liverpool University Press, Invited (Liverpool University Press, 2020)
BA validation, Invited (2018)
External Administrative or Committee Roles
External reviewer in an academic promotion case in a UK institution, Invited (Anonymous, 2024)
Tenure review board external research portfolio reviewer, Invited (Anonymous, 2024)
Reviewer of panel proposals, Invited (European Communication Research and Education Association, 2024)
Conference abstract submissions reviewer, Invited (European Communication Research and Education Association, 2022)
Member of the Center for Entertainment and Media Industries, Invited (University of Texas at Austin, 2022 - present)
Member of external evaluation & accreditation panel, Invited (Hellenic Authority for Higher Education, 2021)
Promotion review board external research portfolio reviewer, Invited (2020)
Tenure review board external research portfolio reviewer, Invited (2020)
Member of editorial advisory board, Invited (Liverpool University Press, 2020 - present)