Dr Claire Hines

Claire studied for her degree in English at the University of Southampton, where she was awarded First Class Honours. She then went on to take a Masters in Film Studies at Southampton, achieving a Distinction. In 2005 she completed her doctoral thesis, 'Shaken not Stirred? James Bond, Playboy and Changing Gender Roles in the 1960s', an AHRB funded study of the early relationship between James Bond and Playboy magazine.

Claire has taught at Southampton Solent University since 2006. At undergraduate level the units she currently leads and teaches on include Screen Audiences, Contemporary Cinema and Contemporary British Film Culture and the Dissertation. Claire also teaches on MA Film.

Claire’s current research interests include: fantasy film, popular Hollywood genres, James Bond, representations of gender and sexuality on screen, British film culture. 

Books

• Fantasy (co-authored with Jaqueline Furby, London: Routledge, 2011).
  Hard to Swallow: Hard-core Pornography on Screen (co-edited with Darren Kerr, London: Columbia University Press, forthcoming). 
• “Sean Connery Is James Bond’: Re-Fashioning British Masculinity in the 1960s’, co-authored with Pam Cook, in Rachel Moseley (ed.) Fashioning Film Stars: Dress, Culture, Identity (London: BFI, 2005).
• ‘Armed and Fabulous: Miss Congeniality’s Queer Rom-Com’, in Stacey Abbott and Deborah Jermyn (eds) Falling in Love Again: The Contemporary Romantic Comedy (London: I.B. Tauris, 2008).
• ‘Entertainment For Men’: Uncovering the Playboy Bond’, in Christoph Lindner (ed.) The James Bond Phenomenon: A Critical Reader, Second Edition (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009).
• ‘For His Eyes Only? Men’s Magazines and the Curse of the Bond Girl’, in Rob Weiner, Jack Becker and Lynn Whitfield (eds) James Bond in World and Popular Culture: The Films are Not Enough (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010).
• ‘How to be Bond: 007/Daniel Craig, Masculinity and British Men’s Lifestyle Magazines’, in Joachim Frenk and Christian Krug (eds) The Cultures of James Bond (Trier: WVT, forthcoming).
• “How Far Will a Girl Go to Satisfy Her Needs?’ From Dykesploitation to Lesbian Hard-Core’, in Ernest J. Mathijs & Xavier Mendik (eds), Alterimage 3: Peep Shows: Essays in Cult Visual Erotica (London: Columbia University Press, forthcoming).

Case studies

• ‘Cruel Intentions’, in Pam Cook (ed.) The Cinema Book, Third Edition (London: BFI, 2008).
• ‘Kids’, in Pam Cook (ed.) The Cinema Book, Third Edition (London: BFI, 2008).
• ‘Miss Congeniality’, in Pam Cook (ed.) The Cinema Book, Third Edition (London: BFI, 2008).
• Claire has presented her work at a number of conferences including Screen (Glasgow 2006 and 2007), MeCCSA (Cardiff, 2008) and Cine-Excess (London, 2007).

Claire is currently working on a book about the relationship between James Bond and Playboy magazine, called The Playboy Bond, under contract by Manchester University Press.