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Prof. Dr. Jonathan Guy STUBBS

Faculty of Communication/Journalism
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University of Warwick

Film and Literature (Undergraduate , 1999)

University of British Columbia

Film Studies (Master , 2002)

University of East Anglia

Film Studies (PhD , 2007)

    Articles published in peer reviewed international journals (SCI,SSCI,Arts and Humanities)
  • Stubbs, J. (2026). Inspired by Actual Events: The Evolution of Disclaimer Statements in Hollywood Historical Films, 1930–2018. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 1–22. - 2026
  • Stubbs, J. (2026). Acts of enclosure: Historical media and the privatization of the past. Media, Culture & Society, 48(4), 761-777. - 2026
  • Boğaç, B and Stubbs, J. ‘Spaces of cinema in rural Cyprus: Cinemagoing and the Turkish Cypriot audience in the Karpas region, 1960–1974’, Geoforum (2025). - 2025
  • Anoke, I.J. and J. Stubbs, "Women’s voices and the representation of Africa in the BBC documentary Sex for Grades," Journal of African Media Studies, 17/2 (2025) - 2025
  • Stubbs, J. and Kiessel, M. "Futures past and present: history, architecture and dystopia in Brazil (1985) and the Hunger Games series (2012-15)", New Review of Film and Television Studies. - 2024
  • Fai. P.B., Bayighomog, S.W., and Stubbs, J. Crisis Reporting and Professionalism in Journalism: An Analysis of Reporting Practices in Cameroon and Nigeria', Journalism Practice (2024). - 2024
  • Stubbs, J. 'Ripped from the Headlines: Contemporary Practices in the Adaptation of Journalism as Screen Fiction', Journalism Studies, 24/12 - 2023
  • Fai, P.B. and Stubbs, J. 'Journalism and secessionism: A contextual analysis of reporting in the Cameroon Anglophone crisis', Journalism (2023). - 2023
  • Stubbs, J. 'The lives of others: unauthorized depictions of public figures in US film and TV drama', International Journal of Communication, 17. - 2023
  • Stubbs, J. 'A Common Market for Film: British Policy and the Unification of European Film' International Journal of Cultural Policy', International Journal of Cultural Policy (2022) - 2022
  • Stubbs, J. 'Unproductive co-production: European integration, the British film industry, and the Franco-British Co-production Agreement of 1965', Journal of British Cinema and Television, 18/2 (2021). - 2021
  • Stubbs, J. "Visualising Empire: Cyprus and the Colonial Travelogue Film in the 1920s". Journal of Balkan and Near East Studies, 22/5 (2020) - 2020
  • Stubbs, J. and Boğaç, B. 'Conflict, Community and the "National" Audience: Remembering Turkish Cypriot Cinemagoing in 1950s Nicosia', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 44/4 (2020) - 2020
  • Stubbs, J. "Making Headlines in a State of Emergency: The Case of the Times of Cyprus, 1955-1960". The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 45/1 (2017) - 2017
  • Stubbs, J. "Did You Ever Notice this Dot in the Mediterranean?": Colonial Cyprus in the Post-war British Documentary,' Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television, 35/2 (2015), 215-239. - 2015
  • Stubbs, J. "Steeped in Tradition, Seized By Change": Swinging London and the American Reception of Tom Jones (1963)'. The Journal of Popular Culture 47/2 (2014), 361- 380. - 2014
  • Stubbs, J. 'Hollywood's Middle Ages: The Script Development of Knights of the Round Table and Ivanhoe, 1935-53'. Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 21/4 (2009), 399-418. - 2009
  • Stubbs, J. "The Eady Levy: A Runaway Bribe? Hollywood Production and British Subsidy in the Early 1960s", Journal of British Cinema and Television - 2009
  • Stubbs, J. ''Blocked' Currency, Runaway Production in Britain and Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)', Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television, 28/3 (2008), 335-51. - 2008
    • Articles published in other peer reviewed international journals
  • Kiessel, M., & Stubbs, J. (2025). Narratives of class and home: the visualization and meaning of mass housing complexes in urban science-fiction dystopias in film and TV. Journal of Property, Planning and Environmental Law, 17(1), 53-67. - 2025
  • Stubbs, J. (2025). States of Emergency, Popular Culture and the Aftermaths of Colonial Violence in «The Private Right» (1966). Communication & Society, 38(2), 187-198. - 2025
  • Stubbs, J. (2025). Archive, Temporality, and Verbatim Re-enactment: In Operation Blues (2021) and Reality (2023). Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 55(2), 39-48. - 2025
  • Kiessel, M. and Stubbs, J. 'Urban Dystopia on Screen: The City, Architecture and Power in the Contemporary Science Fiction Film', Athens Journal of Architecture, 7. - 2023
  • Stubbs, J. ''Always Ready to Explode Into Violence!' Representing the Cyprus Emergency and Decolonization in The High Bright Sun (1965)', Journal of European Popular Culture, 6/2 (2015), 103-116. - 2015
  • Stubbs, J. "Lawrence Durrell and the Information Services Department in Cyprus", Deus Loci: The Lawrence Durrell Journal, vol. 15 (2015). - 2015
  • Stubbs, J. and Taseli, B. "Newspapers, Nationalism and Empire: The Turkish Cypriot press in the British colonial period and its aftermath", Media History, 20/3 (2014), 284-301. - 2014
    • Articles published in National journals
  • Stubbs, J. "A Sword With Two Edges: Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and the End of Empire". The Journal of American Studies of Turkey, 37 (2013), 11-30. - 2013
    • Other Publications
  • Book review: ‘Hollywood Math and Aftermath: The Economic Image and the Digital Recession’ by J.D. Connor, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television (2019) - 2019
  • Book review: ‘Cinema and the Wealth of Nations: Media, Capital, and the Liberal World System’ by Lee Grieveson, Reviews in History (2018). - 2018
  • Book Review: 'Cypriot Cinemas: Memory, Conflict, and Identity on the Margins of Europe' by Costas Constandinides and Yiannis Papadakis (eds), Studies in European Cinema, 14/2 (2017). - 2017
  • Book review: 'The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture' by Tom Brown and Belén Vidal (eds), Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television, 34/4 (2014). - 2014
  • Book review: 'Hollywood and the Americanization of Britain: From the 1920s to the Present' by Mark Glancy, Reviews in History no.1646 (2014). - 2014
  • TV review: 'Game of Thrones', Journal of American Studies of Turkey, 38 (2013). - 2013
  • Book review: 'Reconstructing American Historical Cinema: From Cimarron to Citizen Kane' by J. E. Smyth, Scope: An Online Journal of Film and TV Studies, Issue 13 (2009). - 2009
  • Book review: 'Lawrence of Arabia' by Kevin Jackson, Journal of British Cinema and Television, 5/1 (2008). - 2008
  • Book review: 'Framing Piracy: Globalization and Film Distribution in Greater China' by Shujen Wang, Scope: An Online Journal of Film and TV Studies, Issue 4 (2006). - 2006
    • Books and books chapters published internationally
  • Stubbs, J. “Everything Is Now”: Dark, Trauma and the Sediments of Time. In S. Joy and R. Hanney (eds) Illuminating Netflix's Dark: A Critical Companion to the German Television Series. Cham: Palgrave - 2026
  • Stubbs, J. 'A Netflix Original: History, Hollywood, and Commemoration in the Streaming Era'. In Paula Massood and Pamela Wojcik (eds), Companion to American Film History (Routledge, 2025). - 2025
  • Stubbs, J and M. Kiessel, Building Dystopia: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Marin County Civic Center in THX 1138 (1971) and Gattaca (1997). In Merrill Schleier and Paul Newland (eds), Cinematic Starchitecture: the celebrity status of urban architectural structures in film. London: Routledge. - 2025
  • Stubbs, J. (2025). The Commerce of Culture: British Film Policy and the Films Branch of the Board of Trade (1945–1979). In Francesco Di Chiara (ed.) Film Policies in Europe 1945-1980. London: Palgrave Macmillan. - 2025
  • Stubbs, J. ‘Dramatising Film History in the Historical Film’. In Kim Nelson, Mia Treacey and Marnie Hughes-Warrington (eds), The Routledge Companion to Moving Image History (Routledge, 2023). - 2023
  • Stubbs, J. ‘Epic Combat in Ancient and Modern History: A Comparative Analysis of The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) and The Longest Day (1962)’. In Konstantinos Nikoloutsos (ed.), Brill's Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Warfare on Film (Brill, 2023). - 2023
  • Kiessel, M. and Stubbs, J. "The Present in the Future: Segregation and Boundaries in the Urban Science Fiction Film" in Balkiz Yapicioglu and Konstantinos Lalenis (eds). Boundaries and Restricted Places: The Immured Space (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022), 96-110. - 2022
  • Stubbs, J. ‘“A porcelain feeling”: Performance and ageing in the very late films of John Gielgud’. In Tony Tracy and Michaela Schrage-Frueh (eds), Ageing Masculinities in Contemporary European and Anglophone Cinema (Routledge, 2022). - 2022
  • Stubbs, J. 'Film Follows the Flag: Cultural and Economic Relations Between the British Film Industry and Hollywood'. In Steve Marsh and Robert M. Hendershot (eds.) Culture Matters: Anglo-American Relations and the Intangibles of ‘Specialness’ (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020). - 2020
  • Stubbs, J. ‘“A more permanent world”: Quo Vadis (1951), Runaway Production, and the Internationalisation of Hollywood’. In Maria Wyke and Monika Wozniak (eds), Quo vadis? The Novel of Neronian Rome and its Multimedial Transformations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020). - 2020
  • Stubbs, J. Hollywood and the Invention of England: Projecting the English Past in American Cinema, 1930-2017 (London/New York: Bloomsbury, 2019). - 2019
  • Stubbs, J. Historical Film: A Critical Introduction (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013). - 2013
    • Papers presented in international conferences and printed as proceedings
  • Acts of Enclosure: Screen Histories and the Privatisation of Historical Memory, NECS Conference, Lusafona University, Lisbon, 18-21 June. - 2025
  • Archive, Temporality and Verbatim Re-enactment in Operation Varsity Blues (2021) and Reality (2023). Moving Histories Symposium, University of Windsor, Canada, October 2024. - 2024
  • Moral Ambiguity and the Circulation of Colonial Violence in The Private Right (1966), Reframing Postcolonialism and Cinema, ECREA Film Studies Section Conference, 14-15 September 2023, University of Nicosia, Cyprus - 2023
  • “Who Owns My Name?” History, Biography and the Law. Screen Studies Conference, UK, July 2022. - 2022
  • 'Dramatising Film History in the Historical Film’, Moving Histories: An International Symposium on Screened History, University of Windsor, Canada, November 2022 - 2022
  • 'Performance, Embodiment and Temporality in Sully (2016) and The 15.17 to Paris (2018)', Time and the Body in Film, Television and Screen Studies, BAFTSS Annual Conference - 2021
  • 'A more permanent world': Quo Vadis (1951), runaway production and the internationalisation of Hollywood. Henryk Sienkiewicz's Quo vadis? Inspirations, Contexts, Reception, University of Rome Sapienza, November 2016 - 2016
  • "An Island That's Hardly Known": Cyprus (1929) and the Showcasing of Empire. Early Cinema in the Balkans and the Near East, National and Kapodistrian University, Athens, June 2015. - 2015
  • 'Watching History on TV: Remediation in Historical Film', European Network For Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Charles University, Prague, June 2013. - 2013
  • 'Performance, Aging and Masculinity in the Very Late Films of John Gielgud', Screen Studies Conference, University of Glasgow, July 2010. - 2010
  • 'Packaging History: Genre, Historical Cinema and DVD Bonus Material. European Network For Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, June 2010. - 2010
  • 'The Importance of Seeming British: Lawrence of Arabia, the Eady Levy and the Board of Trade', David Lean Centenary Conference, Queen Mary College, University of London, July 2008. - 2008
  • 'The Flattering Promise of Cultural Benison': Gulliver's Travels (1996), American Audiences and British Critics'. Television Without Borders, University of Reading, July 2008. - 2008
  • 'Lawrence is a Sword With Two Edges': Lawrence of Arabia, American Foreign Policy and the Third World. International Association for Media and History Annual Conference, University of Amsterdam, July 2007. - 2007
  • 'T.E. Lawrence in Hollywood: Lawrence of Arabia, Anglo-American Relations and the Ends of Empire'. Eminent Europeans Conference, Kings College, London, May 2007. - 2007
  • 'The 'Frozen Coin' Game: Blocked Currency and American Production in Britain During the Early 1950s'. British Screens Now Conference, University of Manchester, September 2006. - 2006
  • 'The Runaway Bribe? American Film Production in Britain and the Eady Levy, 1950-64'. Institute of Historical Research Film History Seminar, University of London, November 2006. - 2006
  • "We can't all be lion tamers": Lawrence of Arabia, Hollywood and the End of Empire'. Film and Television Studies Speaker Series, University of East Anglia, January 2006. - 2006
  • 'Anglophilia and the Middle Ages in Hollywood: The Case of Knights of the Round Table'. Collective Memory and the Uses of the Past Conference, University of East Anglia, July 2006. - 2006
  • 'Inventing England: Hollywood and the English Past'. Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism Annual Conference, London School of Economics, March 2006. - 2006
  • 'Anglophilia, Anglophobia and the Middle Ages in Hollywood'. MeCCSA/AMPE Joint National Conference, Leeds Metropolitan University, January 2006. - 2006
  • 'Americanization and the Hollywood-English Historical Drama in Postwar Britain'. Media in Postwar Britain Conference, University of Westminster, June 2004. - 2004
  • 'Domination and Dependency: The British Film Industry in the 1990s'. Film Studies Association of Canada Annual Conference, University of Toronto, May 2002. - 2002
    • Papers presented in National conferences and printed as proceedings
  • ‘Time, History and Media’, ICOM Conference, Sakarya University, Turkey, October 2022 - 2022
  • 'Cinemagoing and the Turkish Cypriot Audience Under British Colonial Rule in the 1950s', New Approaches towards Recording, Preserving and Studying Cultural Heritage in Divided Cyprus, ARUCAD, Kyrenia, North Cyprus - 2019
  • Main research areas: film and media history, film and media policy, historical representation, media and colonialism, Hollywood cinema, British cinema, Anglo-American relations, media of Cyprus, acting and performance, science fiction and architecture
  • I am currently working on a book project called Unfinished History: The Proximate Past in Contemporary Film and Television.
    Master Thesis Supervised

  • Christian Ogedegbe, 'Social Networking Sites and their Uses Among Nigerian Youth' (Cyprus International University, 2012). - 2012

  • Ojiyovwi Eruse, 'Media Exposure of Youths to the Advertisement of Cigarettes on Television' (Cyprus International University, 2013). - 2013

  • Chenjerai Rick Warambwa, ''Represent Where You're From': An Analysis of Southern Afrıcan Hip Hop Music and Video Aesthetics' (Cyprus International University, 2014). - 2014

  • Fatma Umar, Local Identity and Creativity: 'Black Hybrid Culture In Mainstream Nigerian Hip Hop' (Cyprus International University, 2014). - 2014

  • Marshall Patsanza, An Evaluation of the Viability of Mobile Learning in South Africa (Cyprus International University, 2014). - 2014

  • Winifred Odafinome Mavoro, The Challenges Faced by Print Newspapers in the New Medıa Age. Case Study: Nigeria (Cyprus International University, 2015). - 2015

  • Hadiza Baba Ba`aba, New Formats of Web Journalısm: An Analysis of Live Blogs and Online Multimedia Storytelling (Cyprus International University, 2015). - 2015

  • Eseoghene Mary Akpojivi, Attitudes Towards Information Privacy in Online Communication. Case Study: Cyprus Internatıonal Universıty (Cyprus International University, 2016). - 2016

  • Nonhlanhla Mkandla, Coverıng Xenophobıa: A Study of Public Opınion, the Press and Xenophobia in South Africa (Cyprus International University, 2016). - 2016

  • Bashiru Usman, Perceptions of Privacy Risk On Social Media and Online Behavior: Perspectives of International University Students in Northern Cyprus (Cyprus International University, 2017). - 2017

  • Fadiya Ruth Olamide, The Portrayal of Women in Advertising. A Content Analysis of Television and Newspaper Advertising Nigeria (Cyprus International University, 2017). - 2017

  • Idris Kayode Ibrahim, The Impact Celebrities On Social Movement: An Analysis Of Twitter On The Women's March In Washington (Cyprus International University, 2017). - 2017

  • Ebenezer Sam. The Role of the News Media in Ghana’s Multi-Party Democracy: A Study of the 2016 General Election - 2016

  • Adeola Mutiat Akanmu. The Influence of Social Medıa on the Mental Health of International Students in Nicosia. - 2020

  • Ahmed Al Hariri. ‘A Comparison of New Media and Traditıonal Media Advertising Strategies in Two Dubai Cosmetics Product Companies' - 2020

  • Dima Wehbe. ‘Influence and Ownership in the Media of Lebanon and its impacts on Reporting’ - 2020

  • Hazhar Hakim Aziz Nzari. Journalism in Wartime: Reporting Conflict in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region ISIS War 2014-2016 - 2020

  • Jocelyne Ngoy Awa, An analysis of online newspapers during the covid-19 pandemic in the Ddemocratic Republic of Congo - 2021

  • Karzan Hamad, The Influence Of Social Media on Diplomatic Practices In Kurdistan - 2021

  • Magdalene Victor, Responding to Globalization: The Regulation of Hausa film culture in Nigeria - 2021

  • Promise Chinonyerem Ebichi, Nollywood and The Digital Revolution: Internet-Based Distribution and Consumption in a Networked Society - 2021

  • John Oladotun Osinkoya, An Evaluation of The Video Game Industry, Its Relationship To The Film Industry and its Place in Media History - 2022

  • Oluwasegun Samuel Ajibose, The Regulation of Violent Video Games Played By Minors in Nigeria - 2023

  • Mary Dusai Kugwa, Media Framing: A Comparative Analysis of UK and South Africa’s Student-Led Protest - 2017

  • Laura Kaliakparova, Global Netflix and the Challenges of Localisation: An Analysis of Subtitling, Dubbing and Social Media Engagement in Money Heist (La Casa De Papel) (2017-21) - 2024

  • Pegah Hazari, “It’s barbaric, but hey, it’s home!”: A comparative analysis of Orientalism in Aladdin and Mulan, Originals vs. Remakes” - 2025

  • Maryam Azizikhalkheili, Awakening the self: visual representation of the unconscious in contemporary cinema - 2026

  • Imane Oulamine, Moroccan Youths Credibility Judgments Of Local And International News On Social Media Platforms - 2026

    • Doctorate Thesis Supervised

  • Onotina Jeiva Elinwa. Investigating Nollywood Production and Reception: A Study of the Nigerian Film Industry. 2020. - 2020

  • Barcin Bogac. Cinemagoing, Turkish Cypriot Audiences and Turkish Nationalism in 1950s Cyprus. As co-supervisor. 2020. - 2020

  • Khaled Salah Hussein. Social Media, Political Elites and the Public Sphere: Political Decision making on Corruption in Jordan - 2021

  • Huseyin Tekerek, Documentary Filmmaking and Reconciliation in Cyprus: Production Histories, Analyses And Distribution - 2021

  • Abdulhamid M.A. Abuaniza, Censorship In Libyan Film and Cinema: An Analysis Of Filmmaking Before and After the 2011 Libyan Uprising - 2024

  • Patience Bongben Fai, Media and Secessionism: An Analysis of Journalistic Reporting in the Cameroon Anglophone and the Nigerian Renewed Biafra Crises - 2024

  • Ijeoma Nwakama Anoke, Investigative Journalism in the BBBC’s Africa Eye Documentary Series - 2026