STACEY ABBOTT 

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Stacey Abbott is Professor of Film and Television at Northumbria University and a member of their Horror Studies Research Group. She is a recognised expert on the horror genre, regularly appearing on radio, television, and podcasts, and has given public lectures on horror and Gothic film at the British Film Institute, the British Library, The Old Operating Theatre London, St. Bart’s Pathology Museum, and the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies. 

 

Her research focuses on horror across film and television, with a particular interest in the evolution of the vampire and zombie on screen. She has written on the role of special effects in horror, science fiction, and cult film and television.  She is the author of the BFI Film Classic on Kathryn Bigelow’s Near Dark (Bloomsbury 2020), Celluloid Vampires (2007), and Undead Apocalypse: Vampires and Zombies in the 21st Century (2016). She is currently writing a book on Horror Animation.

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Mae Stacey Abbott yn Athro Ffilm a Theledu ym Mhrifysgol Northumbria ac yn aelod o’u Grŵp Ymchwil Astudiaethau Arswyd. Mae hi'n arbenigwr cydnabyddedig ar y genre arswyd, gan ymddangos yn rheolaidd ar y radio, teledu a phodlediadau, ac mae wedi traddodi darlithoedd cyhoeddus ar ffilmiau arswyd a Gothig yn Sefydliad Ffilm Prydain, y Llyfrgell Brydeinig, The Old Operating Theatre Llundain, Amgueddfa Patholeg St. Bart, a Sefydliad Astudiaethau Arswyd Miskatonic. 

 

Mae ei hymchwil yn canolbwyntio ar arswyd ar draws ffilm a theledu, gyda diddordeb arbennig yn esblygiad y fampir a'r sombi ar y sgrin. Mae hi wedi ysgrifennu ar rôl effeithiau arbennig mewn ffilmiau a theledu arswyd, ffuglen wyddonol, a chwlt.  Hi yw awdur y llyfr BFI Film Classic ar ffilmiau Kathryn Bigelow, Near Dark (Bloomsbury 2020), Celluloid Vampires (2007), ac Undead Apocalypse: Vampires and Zombies in the 2016st Century (2016). Mae hi wrthi’n ysgrifennu llyfr ar Animeiddio Arswyd.