I joined Kingston University in 2005 and was head of the Film Department for four years, followed by four years as the Director of Research in Film. I became Professor of Film and Cultural Studies in 2013.
Professor of Film and Cultural Studies
I teach primarily on the BA Hons in Film Cultures, the BA Hons in Media and Communication, and the two MA programmes in Film and Media. I deliver guest lectures across the Faculty and supervise PhD students.
My research explores the changing meanings of cultural icons across different historical and cultural contexts, and my books include Batman Unmasked, Using the Force, Alice's Adventures, The Audience Studies Reader, The Blade Runner Experience, the BFI volume on Star Wars, Hunting the Dark Knight, Why Bowie Matters and Forever Stardust: David Bowie Across The Universe. My next book is The Truth About Lisa Jewell.
Brooker, Will (2021) Filling in the gaps : creative imagination and nostalgia in ZX Spectrum gaming. Participations : Journal of Audience and Reception Studies, 18(2), pp. 3-43. ISSN (online) 1749-8716
Brooker, Will (2016) Alice's evidence : examining the cultural afterlife of Lewis Carroll in 1932. Cultural History, 5(1), pp. 1-25. ISSN (print) 2045-290X
Brooker, Will (2012) Cloaked in shadow: an anti-hero for our times. Film review of: 'The Dark Knight rises' directed by Christopher Nolan. Times Higher Education(2,059), pp. 44-45. ISSN (print) 0049-3929
Brooker, Will (2011) Hero of the beach: Flex Mentallo at the end of the worlds. Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics, 2(1), pp. 25-37. ISSN (print) 2150-4857
Brooker, Will (2010) 'Now you're thinking with portals': media training for a digital environment. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 13(6), pp. 553-573. ISSN (print) 1367-8779
Brooker, Will (2009) All our variant futures: the many narratives of Blade runner: the final cut. Popular Communication, 7(2), pp. 79-91. ISSN (print) 1540-5702
Brooker, Will (2009) Camera-eye, CG-eye: videogames and the 'cinematic'. Cinema Journal, 48(3), pp. 122-128. ISSN (print) 0009-7101
Brooker, Will (2009) Maps of many worlds: remembering computer game fandom in the 1980s. Transformative Works and Cultures, 2, ISSN (online) 1941-2258
Brooker, Will (2005) Book review of 'A short history of cultural studies' by John Hartley. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 8(1), pp. 122-125. ISSN (print) 1367-8779
Brooker, Will (2005) "It is love": the Lewis Carroll Society as fan community. American Behavioral Scientist, 48(7), pp. 859-880. ISSN (print) 0002-7642
Brooker, Will (2004) Book review of 'Matters of gravity: special effects and supermen in the 20th century' by Scott Bukatman. Popular Communication, 2(3), pp. 171-177. ISSN (print) 1540-5702
Brooker, Will [Reviewer] (2003) Film Review of: A galaxy far away, directed by Tariq Jalil. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 14(1), pp. 102-105. ISSN (print) 0897-0521
Brooker, Will (2001) Living on Dawson's Creek: teen viewers, cultural convergence and television overflow. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 4(4), pp. 456-472. ISSN (print) 1367-8779
Brooker, Will (2001) Readings of racism: interpretation, stereotyping and The Phantom Menace. Continuum: journal of media and cultural studies, 15(1), pp. 15-32. ISSN (print) 1030-4312
Brooker, Will (2001) Book review of 'Inside subculture: the postmodern meaning of style' by David Muggleton. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 4(1), pp. 111-127. ISSN (print) 1367-8779
Brooker, Will (2023) Never-ending watchmen : adaptations, sequels, prequels and remixes. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury. 256p. ISBN 9781350198746 (In Press)
Brooker, Will (2022) The truth about Lisa Jewell. London, U.K. : Penguin. 352p. ISBN 9781529136029 (In Press)
Brooker, Will (2019) Why Bowie matters. London : William Collins. 308p. ISBN 9780008313722
Brooker, Will (2017) Forever Stardust : David Bowie across the Universe. London, U.K. : I B Tauris. 256p. ISBN 9781784531423
Pearson, Roberta , Uricchio, William and Brooker, Will, eds. (2015) Many more lives of The Batman. London, U.K. : British Film Institute. 248p. ISBN 9781844577651
Brooker, Will (2012) Hunting the Dark Knight: Batman in Twenty-first Century Popular Culture. London, U.K. : I.B. Tauris. 272p. ISBN 9781848852792
Brooker, Will (2009) Star Wars. Basingstoke, U.K. : Palgrave Macmillan. 96p. (BFI film classics) ISBN 1844572773
Brooker, Will (2004) Alice's adventures: Lewis Carroll in popular culture. New York; London : Continuum. 380p. ISBN 0826414338
Brooker, Will, ed. (2004) The Blade Runner experience: the legacy of a science fiction classic. London, U.K. : Wallflower Press. 250p. ISBN 1904764304
Brooker, Will and Jermyn, Deborah, eds. (2003) The audience studies reader. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. 347p. ISBN 0415254345
Brooker, Will (2002) Using the force: creativity, community and Star Wars fans. New York, U.S. : Continuum. 254p. ISBN 0826452876
Brooker, Will (2001) Batman unmasked: analyzing a cultural icon. London, U.K. : Continuum. ISBN 0826413439
Brooker, Will (2023) Mementos of the afternoon : Christopher Nolan's ambiguous debt to Maya Deren. In: Parkinson, Claire and Labrouillère, Isabelle, (eds.) A critical companion to Christopher Nolan. Lanham. U.S. : Lexington Books. pp. 213-228. ISBN 9781793652515
Brooker, Will (2022) 'The world is built on a wall' : deconstructing 'Blade Runner 2049' (2017). In: McSweeney, Terence and Joy, Stuart, (eds.) Contemporary American science fiction film. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. pp. 160-176. ISBN 9781032039640
Brooker, Will (2015) Batgirl : continuity, crisis and feminism. In: Pearson, Roberta , Uricchio, William and Brooker, Will, (eds.) Many more lives of the Batman. London, U.K. : British Film Institute. pp. 134-152. ISBN 9781844577651
Brooker, Will (2015) Building a better kickstarter: crowdfunding my so-called secret identity. In: Bennett, Lucy , Chin, Bertha and Jones, Bethan, (eds.) Crowdfunding the future: media industries, ethics, and digital society. New York, U.S. : Peter Lang. pp. 233-238. (Digital formations, (98)) ISBN 9781433126819
Brooker, Will (2015) Fifth-dimensional Batman : an interview with Grant Morrison. In: Pearson, Roberta , Uricchio, William and Brooker, Will, (eds.) Many more lives of the Batman. London, U.K. : British Film Institute. pp. 43-52. ISBN 9781844577651
Pearson, Roberta, Uricchio, William and Brooker, Will (2015) Introduction : revisiting the Batman. In: Pearson, Roberta , Uricchio, William and Brooker, Will, (eds.) Many more lives of the Batman. London, U.K. : British Film Institute. pp. 1-10. ISBN 9781844577651
Brooker, Will (2015) Time again : the David Bowie chronotope. In: Cinque, Toija , Moore, Christopher and Redmond, Sean, (eds.) Enchanting David Bowie : space time body memory. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 87-102. ISBN 9781628923049
Brooker, Will (2014) Going pro: gendered responses to the incorporation of fan labour as user-generated content. In: Mann, Denise, (ed.) Wired TV: laboring over an interactive future. New Brunswick, U.S. : Rutgers University Press. pp. 72-97. ISBN 9780813564548
Brooker, Will (2013) Talking to the TARDIS: Doctor Who, Neil Gaiman and cultural mythology. In: Mellor, David and Hills, Matt, (eds.) New dimensions of ‘Doctor Who’: exploring space, time and television. London, U.K. : I.B.Tauris. (Reading Contemporary Television) ISBN 9781845118662
Brooker, Will (2009) Television out of time: watching cult shows on download. In: Pearson, Roberta, (ed.) Reading Lost: perspectives on a hit television show. London, U.K. : I. B. Tauris. pp. 51-72. ISBN 1845118367
Brooker, Will (2007) A sort of homecoming: fan viewing and symbolic pilgrimage. In: Gray, Jonathan , Sandvoss, Cornel and Harrington, C. Lee, (eds.) Fandom: identities and communities in a mediated world. New York, U.S. : New York University Press. pp. 149-164. ISBN 9780814731826
Brooker, Will (2006) The best Batman story: The dark knight returns. In: McKee, Alan, (ed.) Beautiful things in popular culture. Oxford, UK : Blackwell. pp. 33-48. ISBN 1405131918
Brooker, Will (2004) The Blade Runner experience: pilgrimage and liminal space. In: Brooker, Will, (ed.) The Blade Runner experience: the legacy of a science fiction classic. London, UK : Wallflower Press. pp. 11-30. ISBN 1904764304
Brooker, Will (2004) Introduction: 2019 vision. In: Brooker, Will, (ed.) The Blade Runner experience: the legacy of a science fiction classic. London, UK : Wallflower Press. pp. 1-10. ISBN 1904764304
Brooker, Will (2004) Living on Dawson's Creek: teen viewers, cultural convergence, and television overflow. In: Allen, Robert C. and Hill, Annette, (eds.) The television studies reader. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. pp. 569-580. ISBN 9780415283243
Brooker, Will (2004) New hope: the postmodern project of Star Wars. In: Redmond, Sean, (ed.) Liquid metal: the science fiction film reader. London, U.K. : Wallflower. pp. 298-307. ISBN 1903364876
Brooker, Will (2003) Conclusion: overflow and audience. In: Brooker, Will and Jermyn, Deborah, (eds.) The audience studies reader. Abingdon, UK : Routledge. pp. 322-334. ISBN 0415254345
Brooker, Will (2003) Rescuing Strange days: fan reaction to a critical and commercial failure. In: Jermyn, Deborah and Redmond, Sean, (eds.) The cinema of Kathryn Bigelow: Hollywood transgressor. London, U.K. : Wallflower. pp. 198-219. ISBN 1903364426
Brooker, Will (2002) Book Review of 'Straight reading, resistance, reappropriation, and heterosexuality' by Richard Bradshaw. In: Hague, Angela and Lavery, David, (eds.) Teleparody: predicting/ preventing the tv discourse of tomorrow. London, U.K. : Wallflower. pp. 123-126. ISBN 1903364396
Brooker, Will (2015) Time again : narrative, history and identity in the work of David Bowie. In: The Stardom and Celebrity of David Bowie; 17-18 Jul 2015, Melbourne, Australia. (Unpublished)
Brooker, Will and Hughes, Rebecca (2016) Being Bowie. (audiovisual essay).
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