Intellect

Jonathan Rayner is Reader in Film Studies at the University of Sheffield, School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics. He has contributed to books on topics as diverse as Australian cinema, New Zealand cinema, musicals, horror films, crime/caper films, cult films, and road movies. His previous books include The Naval War Film: Genre, History, National Cinema (Manchester University Press, 2007), Contemporary Australian Cinema (Manchester University Press, 2000) and The Films of Peter Weir (Continuum, 1998/2003), and as co-editor (with Graeme Harper) Cinema and Landscape (Intellect, 2010).  His research interests include Australasian cinema, genre and auteur studies, cinema and landscape, and naval films and history.