Personal profile
Research interests
Cath’s research interrogates materiality and corporeality in Visual Culture. Her PhD by published works ‘Discourses of Dissolution: Designing the Deceased in Visual and Material Culture’ focussed on tensions between presence/absence and preservation/deterioration in posthumous stardom, film, fashion and embodiment.
She is currently preoccupied with skulls and also blood within popular culture, textile and fashion design.
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Coco (Lee Unkrich, 2017) - Death as decomposition
Davies, C., 22 Jul 2024, Death in the 21st Century: A Companion. Peter Lang AG, p. 225-232 8 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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One of the thorny kind: The Red Queen’s organic armour in Alice through the Looking Glass (2016)
Davies, C., 23 Feb 2023, In: Studies in Costume and Performance. 7, 2, p. 213-225 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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‘Hazy Cosmic Jive’: composing presence and absence in Moonage Daydream (2022)
Davies, C., 8 Aug 2023, In: Celebrity Studies. 15, 4, p. 526-540 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access1 Citation (Scopus) -
Book Review - Faith, Hope and Carnage by Nick Cave and Sean O'Hagan
Davies, C., 14 Nov 2022, Mortality, 28, 1, p. 204-205.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Book/Film/Article review
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'I Might Just Split a Seam': Fabric and Somatic Integrity in the work of Tim Burton
Davies, C., 2021, Tim Burton’s Bodies: Gothic, Animated, Corporeal and Creaturely. Hockenhull, S. & Pheasant-Kelly, F. (eds.). Edinburgh University Press, p. 148-160 13 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus)
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Beyond the Biopic: performing Star Images on screen
Davies, C. (Participant)
16 Nov 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participating in a conference, workshop, ...
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Keynote Address: The Composition of Decomposition: Dissecting the dynamics of decay in popular culture
Davies, C. (Speaker)
8 Sept 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Journal of Consumer Culture (Journal)
Davies, C. (Reviewer)
2018 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication Peer-review
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Celebrity Studies (Journal)
Davies, C. (Reviewer)
2018 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication Peer-review
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Mortality (Journal)
Davies, C. (Reviewer)
2011 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication Peer-review