Dr Simon Willmetts

 

 

 

I will be exploring ethical debates concerning cyber security in popular culture.

 

My Role and Expertise

I am a lecturer in American Studies at the University of Hull. My research falls broadly within the fields of film history, cultural theory and US foreign policy. Before joining Hull I worked on the AHRC project at Warwick University entitled The Landscapes of Secrecy: The CIA and the Contested Record of US Foreign Policy. The project explored the formation and development of public perceptions of the CIA in various cultural mediums. My work for the project examined filmic representations of the Agency. I have published articles on spy cinema and the public perceptions of the Central Intelligence Agency in the Journal of American Studies, the Journal of British Cinema and Television and the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence. I have published a book with Edinburgh University Press on the history of the OSS and CIA in Hollywood cinema. I will be exploring how major contemporary debates regarding digital governance have been shaped by cultural texts, in particular feature films, documentaries and novels in my work on this project.

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