John Gibbs

John Gibbs is Professor of Film at the University of Reading. His publications include Mise-en-scène: Film Style and Interpretation (2002), Filmmakers’ Choices (2006, 2015) and, co-edited with Douglas Pye, Style and Meaning (2005) and The Long Take: Critical Approaches (2017). He is an editor of Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism and series co-editor of Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television. His audiovisual essays have been published in Alphaville, [in]Transition, Movie, Music, Sound and the Moving Image and NECSUS. At Reading, he co-leads an annual videographic summer school designed for colleagues working in disciplines beyond screen studies.

Recent Publications
with Kathrina Glitre and Douglas Pye. “The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944): Three Perspectives on Preston Sturges and the Production Code.” Quarterly Review of Film and Video 42, no. 1 (2025): 157–184. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10509208.2024.2410530.

“Video Essay: Choosing Death Row Songs.” Music, Sound and the Moving Image 18, no. 1 (2024): 3–5. https://dx.doi.org/10.3828/msmi.2024.2.

“Creative Geography, Creative Connections: Candyman.” Movie: a Journal of Film Criticism 11 (2023): 19–21. https://vimeo.com/746837405.

with Douglas Pye. “Le Plaisir: Voices and Viewpoints.” NECSUS (Spring 2022). https://necsus-ejms.org/le-plaisir-voices-and-viewpoints/.