Rate My Professor Vincent Gaine

Dr Vincent Gaine serves as Senior Teaching Associate in Media Studies in the School of Arts at Lancaster University and as an Academic in the Department of Sociology. He obtained his PhD from the University of East Anglia on 15 July 2009, with the thesis 'Existential Mann: Existentialism and Social Engagement in the Films of Michael Mann'. Earlier in his career at Lancaster, he was Lecturer in Sociology, Media and Cultural Studies, joining as a new staff member between 2021 and 2022. Gaine teaches a range of modules in Media and Cultural Studies, including Key Perspectives on Media and Culture (MCS.200), Transcultural Media Studies (MCS.222), Independent Dissertation Project (MCS.360), Media and Creative Industries (MCS.954), and Critical Methods in Media and Cultural Studies (MCS.953). He supervises PhD students on topics encompassing film, television, gaming, representation, globalisation, liminality, genre, gender, race, adaptation, and transmedia. Additionally, he participates in public events as a speaker, including Campus in the City in April 2025 and the Dark Dukes Film Festival in October 2024.

Gaine's research centers on the intersection of globalisation, liminality, and identity politics in media, with publications addressing contemporary film genres, cycles, and practitioners; he has 12 research outputs. Key works include the forthcoming '“We might start a chain reaction”. Splitting the Great Man in Oppenheimer' in Barbenheimer Syndrome (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026), 'Blade: Liminal Daywalking with Eros and Thanatos' in Darkest Margins (1428 Publishing Ltd., 2025), 'Between Man and Machine: The Liminal Superhero Body' in Quarterly Review of Film and Video 39(5), pp. 1198-1218 (2022), 'Kathryn Bigelow: new action realist' in New Review of Film and Television Studies 19(3), pp. 330-347 (2021), and ''Not Now That Strength': Embodiment and Globalisation in Post-9/11 James Bond' in In the Shadow of 9/11 (Edinburgh University Press, 2017). His ongoing projects investigate nostalgic espionage, superheroes, and the social-anthropological representation of Boston in media. Research interests include film, television, liminality, representation, globalisation, identity politics, genre, gender, race, and class.