Rate My Professor Vincent Gaine

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.