University of Stirling

Faculty Member, Communications, Media and Culture

About

Much of my work is in British film and TV, drama documentary, documentary and media depictions of terrorism. I'm the author of Alan Clarke and numerous journal articles and book chapters. Topics I've published on include television direction, ideology and aesthetics, science fiction, the British New Wave, British film comedy and the TV drama of Peter Kosminsky, Ken Loach and Nigel Kneale. I also provide booklets and commentaries for DVDs, write for various websites and have given talks at venues such as the NFT.

My current writing projects include a book on Stephen Frears partly facilitated by 2008 research leave awarded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

See Papers for publication list. I've also written:

DVD booklets
1. Tales Out of School (2011, forthcoming)
2. This Sporting Life (2008)
3. The Firm (plus commentary with Phil Davis and Lesley Manville) (2007)
4. Hell Drivers (2007)
5. Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire (2006)

BFI website www.screenonline.org.uk
27 essays to date (2004-present):
Drama documentary, Channel 4 comedy, Play for Today, Andrew Davies, Peter Kosminsky, William Ivory; Big George is Dead, Culloden, Death of a Princess, Drop the Dead Donkey, Faith, Hard Labour, Hillsborough, Invasion, Just Like Mohicans, Land of Green Ginger, Leeds - United!, The Legion Hall Bombing, Nightingales, The Permissive Society, Shipman, Shoot to Kill, The Signalman, The Spongers, Threads, To Encourage the Others, Warriors.

www.britishtelevisiondrama.org.uk website
Editor. Wrote on police dramas from The Blue Lamp to The Black and Blue Lamp; history and Richard I in Doctor Who; The War Game; Doctor Who 'The Eleventh Hour'; Michael Palin's diaries; Play for Today introduction; Alan Plater interview; Alan Clarke; Tony Parker; Sunset Across the Bay; The Foxtrot; The Hallelujah Handshake; Traitor.

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