Impact work

Dr Steve Jones is part of a REF impact case study focusing on film festivals, which is led by Northumbria colleague Dr Russ Hunter. The project entails delivering our research in public spaces. Since 2015, Steve has presented multiple times at Offscreen Festival in Brussels, Abertoir Festival in Aberystwyth, and Kurja Polt Festival in Ljubljana. He has also introduced film screenings and has conducted masterclasses with actor Christina Lindberg and director Fabrice Du Welz. 

Most recently, Steve delivered a lecture on the slasher film as part of the 13th annual Abertoir Film Festival. 

In 2019, he will return to Brussels for the Offscreen Festival where he will deliver a lecture about death on film alongside Dr Johnny Walker.
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Steve will also return to Kurja Polt, where he will deliver a talk on slasher cinema. As the main focus of the REF case study, the work with Kurja Polt also entails media interviews (for national television and radio). 
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It has also led to Steve’s work being translated into Slovenian for publication in Kino! Journal. To-date, Steve has two translated articles in Kino!

• “‘Tvoja zgodba je resnična in ljudje to čutijo’: mučenje v kontekstu” (Kino! 31/32), which is a translation of a chapter from Steve’s monograph Torture Porn Popular Horror after Saw (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2013). This issue also features a translation of a chapter by Northumbria’s Dr Jamie Sexton
• “Kartezijanstvo in intersubjektivnost v filmski seriji Paranormalno ter v filozofiji duha” (Kino! 36), which is a translation of the article “Cartesianism and Intersubjectivity in Paranormal Activity and the Philosophy of Mind”, which was originally published in Film-Philosophy (21:1, 2017). This issue of Kino! also features a translation of Russ Hunter’s work on Italian zombie narratives. 

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