Contemporary Horror on Screen An Evolving Visual Narrative

Dr. Sarah Baker is Senior Lecturer in the School of Communication at Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand. She is Co-founder of the AUT Popular Culture Centre and Member of JMAD and the AUT Media Observatory Group. She is Senior Fellow and Member of the AUT Academy. Her extensive research interests include television and film in mediated popular culture focusing on the gothic, horror, sexuality and gender.

Amanda Rutherford is Lecturer in the School of Communication Studies and the School of Language and Culture at Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand. She is Member of the Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australia, the Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand, the International Gothic Association, and the Pacific Modern and Ancient Language Association. She publishes predominantly in the area of mediated popular culture, gothic and horror, and fairy-tale.

Richard Pamatatau is Tenured Journalism Academic at AUT University and Programme Leader in the Journalism Department at the School of Communication Studies. He is Member of the School of Communication Studies' social media, popular cultures and political reporting research groups and Member of the sponsorship and media committee. He has a Master of Creative Writing with First-Class Honours from Auckland University and is completing a Ph.D. in Poetry at Massey University. He is also Member of the Auckland Museum Pacific Advisory Board and its subcommittee and Member of the NZ Institute of Directors.