Dr. Lisa Purse

Lisa Purse is Professor of Film in the Department of Film, Theatre and Television, University of Reading, UK. She is a leading action and digital effects scholar with interests in the politics of representation and the aesthetics of contemporary digital cinema technologies. Her publications include Contemporary Action Cinema (2011), Digital Imaging in Popular Cinema (2013) and (as co-editor) Disappearing War: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cinema and Erasure in the Post-9/11 World (2017).

Lisa Purse is Professor of Film in the Department of Film, Theatre and Television, University of Reading, UK. She is a leading action and digital effects scholar with interests in the politics of representation and the aesthetics of contemporary digital cinema technologies. Her publications include Contemporary Action Cinema (2011), Digital Imaging in Popular Cinema (2013) and (as co-editor) Disappearing War: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cinema and Erasure in the Post-9/11 World (2017). See less