Catherine Lester

Catherine Lester

Dr Catherine Lester is a lecturer in film and television at the University of Birmingham. She is the author of the book Horror Films for Children: Fear and Pleasure in American Cinema (2021) and editor of the forthcoming essay collection Watership Down: Perspectives on and Beyond Animated Violence (2023), both published by Bloomsbury. She has also published shorter pieces on the intersections of children’s culture and the horror genre in the books Discussing Disney (2019), Global TV Horror (2021) and the Fantasy/Animation Research Network http://fantasy-animation.org. When she isn’t writing or teaching she can usually be found relaxing with her partner, cat and two rabbits, whose lives aren’t nearly as dramatic as those of the rabbits in Watership Down.


Upcoming Lectures

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  • Previous Lectures

    Little Terrors: Children's Horror on Film and Television Little Terrors: Children's Horror on Film and Television
    Thu. Nov. 10, 2016 - 7:00 pm GMT - 10:00 pm GMT
    Bloody Bunnies: How Watership Down traumatised a generation (London) Bloody Bunnies: How Watership Down traumatised a generation (London)
    Tue. Dec. 13, 2022 - 7:00 pm GMT - 9:00 pm GMT