Film and TV Group Members Film and TV Studies staff and areas of current research specialism: Email Dr Sean Holmes Reader British film and television industries, including collaboration with the BECTU History Project on a number of oral history initiatives, including work on film laboratory workers whose skills have been rendered largely obsolete by digital technologies. Email Dr Leon Hunt Senior Lecturer - Arts and Humanities Postwar Italian cinema, cult film, film and comics, the horror film. Recent publications include Danger: Diabolik (Wallflower Press, 2018)) and Cult British TV Comedy: from Reeves and Mortimer to Psychoville (Manchester UP, 2013) and The League of Gentlemen (BFI TV Classics, 2008). Email Dr Caroline Ruddell Reader Screen representation and animation. Recent focus particularly on craft-based, handmade animation and constructions of cultural value. Combines textual analysis, industry and production studies, and feminist approaches. Includes classic 'animation studies' which takes into account the ontology of animation, metamorphosis and the illusion of life. Recent publications include The Animations Studies Reader (co-editor, Bloomsbury 2018) and The Crafty Animator: Handmade, Craft-based Animation and Cultural Value (co-editor, Palgrave 2019). Email Dr Daniele Rugo Professor - Film and TV Practice Film theory and documentary practice. World cinema, film philosophy. Recent publications include Jean-Luc Nancy and the Thinking of Otherness: Philosophy and Powers of Existence (Bloomsbury 2014) and, with Nikolaj Lubecker, eds, James Benning鈥檚 Environments: Politics, Ecology, Duration (Edinburgh University Press, 2017. Films include About a War (2018), co-director with Abi Weaver. Email Professor Michael Wayne Professor - Media Convenor of the MA in Media and Public Relations, interested in political communications, colonial and imperialist framings of the west and 'the rest', documentary film, the politics of popular culture, national identities and Marxist cultural theory and philosophy. Most recent book Marxism Goes To The Movies (Routledge 2020). Prof Wayne also makes documentary films. He is the co-director of The Acting Class (2017) which won Best National Feature Documentary at the Labour Film festival 2017. Email Ms Josephine Coleman Lecturer in Media and Public Relations Practitioner-academic. Interdisciplinary research interests include: Local media and communities; Geographies of radio broadcasting; Media production and journalistic practice; Promotional cultures and public relations; Storytelling and the dramatized documentary form; Content analysis of aural texts; Practice-based research and teaching; Qualitative research methods and the reflexive mindset. Recent outputs include a report on community radio during lockdown: /research/Projects/UK-community-radio-responses-to-COVID-19 Dr Jon Hackett Senior Lecturer Film, media and migration, including human trafficking and modern slavery. Masculinity and monstrosity on screen and in popular music. Film, cultural and critical theory. Recent publications include Scary Monsters: Masculinity, Monstrosity and Popular Music (Bloomsbury, 2021). Currently researching political cinemas of the 1960s and 1970s.