Peter Stanfield

Peter Stanfield is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Kent.

His main area of interest is the cultural history of American film, with a particular focus on film genres and cycles, and popular music and film.

His current research is concentrated on and around post-war film cycles, in particular boxing movies, Mickey Spillane adaptations, Mark Hellinger Productions, Eagle-Lion crime films, the series of Audie Murphy westerns, and the psychologisation of the western hero.