Researcher
About
Lisa Purse is Professor of Film at the University of Reading, UK. Her research focuses on the relationship between technology, cinema aesthetics, production practices, and patterns of marginalisation in screen representation and screen industries. She currently leads the Screen Industry Voices oral history project in the University of Reading’s AHRC-funded Impact Accelerator Account research programme (2022-2025), and is investigating the impact of developments in AI and virtual production on below the line workers. She has published widely on action cinema and action aesthetics, digital visual effects, questions of representation in genre cinema, and representations of war and conflict. Her books include (as author) Contemporary Action Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2011) and Digital Imaging in Popular Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2013), and (as co-editor) Disappearing War: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cinema and Erasure in the Post-9/11 World (Edinburgh University Press, 2017) and Mediating War and Identity: Figures of Transgression in 20th- and 21st-Century War Representation (Edinburgh University Press, 2020).