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Samantha Colling is a Senior Lecturer in Film and Media and has been teaching in the field for more than ten years.
She completed her PhD, which explored the relationships between film, pleasure, and affect, at The Manchester Institute for Research and Innovation in Art and Design, her Masters in Screen Studies at the University of Manchester, and her BA (Hons) Drama at the University of Hull.
As well as working for the Film and Media department at Manchester School of Art, Samantha also works with Postgraduate PhD and Masters students in the Arts and Humanities Graduate School as the Research Degrees Development Tutor.
Samantha has recently completed a book for Bloomsbury, based on her PhD thesis, titled 'The Aesthetic Pleasures of Girl Teen Film' (2017). The book explores new ways of thinking about pleasure and fun in relation to film, with a particular focus on millennial girl teen films and the kinds of affects that they are designed to create. She is especially interested in pushing Affect Film Theory in directions that have so far been neglected.
S. Colling (2017). The Aesthetic Pleasures of Girl Teen Film. Bloomsbury Publishing USA.
S. Colling (2016). The pleasures of muscular bonding in Bring It On and Pitch Perfect. New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film. 14(2), pp.143-150.
S. Colling, A. Hilton (2023). 'Feeling Like a Teenage Lesbian: the sex scenes in The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018) and Make Up (2019)’. In: Screening Sex: The Sex Scene – Representation, Performance, Aesthetics. Edinburgh University Press,
SC. Colling (2016). The Pleasures of Music Video Aesthetics in Girl Teen Film. In: International Cinema and the Girl Local Issues, Transnational Contexts. Springer,
S. Colling (2022). ‘Queer time, queer feeling and queer sex in The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)'. University of Central Florida, 23/6/2022.
SC. Colling (2018). Pleasure and obscenity in Hairspray (1988; 2007). University of Salzburg, 8/3/2018.
SC. Colling Girlhood, Hollywood and Pleasure. University of California, Berkeley, 26/10/2017.
SC. Colling (2013). Spectacles of the Everyday: music video aesthetics and girl teen film'. De Montfort University,
SC. Colling (2013). 'Girlhood and Girl Teen Film'. University of Liverpool,
SC. Colling (2012). 'Music Video Aesthetics'. University of Oxford, 26/9/2012.
SC. Colling (2012). 'Cinderella’s Pleasures: the double coding of girl teen film'. Central European University, Budapest,
Creating Our Future Histories
This collaborative project with community organisation Dance Manchester combined qualitative research and creative co-production to examine the impact of STRIDE - a Dance Manchester project developed to engage young men in dance - on the lives of the boys involved. The output of this research included a short film co-produced with Dance Manchester.
