Dr Richard Farmer

Richard Farmer is Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow in Film Studies at UCL, and has previously taught at the University of East Anglia.  His PhD concentrated on the significance of rationing in British wartime culture.  He has published on aspects of food, drink and national identity in British cinema, and his book on food culture and wartime cinema is forthcoming from Manchester University Press.  He is currently researching cinemas and cinema-going in wartime Britain, using oral history to investigate the historical specificity of cinema-going as social practice.

Dr Farmer contributes to the MA Film Studies core course, and convenes the courses 'Reading Films' (research methodology training) and 'Their Finest Hour and a Half: British Cinema in WWII' (term 2 option module).

Email: richard.farmer@ucl.ac.uk