Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Media and Cinema Studies
Director, Roger Ebert Center for Film Studies, Media and Cinema Studies
Professor, Institute of Communications Research
Professor, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Recent Publications
Turnock, J. (2023). Jurassic Park’s Smoothing Pass: The Dinosaur Input Device and Digital Materialism. In The Jurassic Park Book: New Perspectives on the Classic 1990s Blockbuster (pp. 113-129). Bloomsbury Publishing Plc..
Turnock, J. (2016). POSTWAR HOLLYWOOD, 1947-1967: Special/Visual Effects. In Editing and Special/Visual Effects (pp. 91-102). Bloomsbury Publishing Plc..
Turnock, J. (2016). THE AUTEUR RENAISSANCE, 1968-1980: Special/Visual Effects. In Editing and Special/Visual Effects (pp. 116-128). Bloomsbury Publishing Plc..
Turnock, J. (2015). DESIGNED FOR EVERYONE WHO LOOKS FORWARD TO TOMORROW! STAR WARS, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND AND 1970s OPTIMISTIC FUTURISM. In Special Effects: New Histories/Theories/Contexts (pp. 210-223). Bloomsbury Publishing Plc..
Turnock, J. (2015). Patient research on the slapstick lots: From trick men to special effects artists in silent Hollywood. Early Popular Visual Culture, 13(2), 152-173. https://doi.org/10.1080/17460654.2015.1025531