Analysing European female-directed films, Horner compares cinematic representations of women’s suicide with clinical literature.
Kierran Horner
Kierran Horner’s current research investigates ethical representations of female suicide in post-war European film. Their monograph, Haunting the Left Bank (Peter Lang, 2022), takes a feminist-philosophical approach to themes of mortality and intersubjectivity in the films of Agnès Varda, Chris Marker and Alain Resnais, which they prepared as an Honorary Postdoctoral Visiting Research Fellow in Film Studies at King’s College London. Engaging with topics such as Pop Art, phenomenology, pregnancy and gendered roles, Kierran has published articles in journals including L’Esprit créateur, Film Philosophy, Studies in French Cinema, MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture, and Studies in European Cinema. They worked in mental health policy for over a decade and co-wrote the Mental Health Analysis Profile: England for The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
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