Notes on contributors

Will Stanford Abbiss recently graduated with a PhD from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His research focuses on representations of nationhood in long-form television drama, including the status of public service television in the twenty-first century. His doctoral study established a post-heritage critical framework, through which British period drama productions from the 2010s were analysed. His future research will further consider international and contemporary-set productions, applying his findings on the depictions of cultural identity to a broader spectrum of television drama. Will's work has been published in Television & New Media and the Journal of British Cinema and Television.

Jonathan Bignell is Professor of Television and Film at the University of Reading. He is a General Editor (with Sarah Cardwell and Lucy Fife Donaldson) of Manchester University Press's The Television Series, which he co-founded with Cardwell, and co-editor of the Moments in Television collections. Jonathan's writing often combines historiographic work with analysis of the audiovisual forms and style of TV programmes and films. His most recent monograph was Beckett on screen: the television plays (Manchester University Press, 2009) and he is the author of over fifty articles and chapters, including contributions to the journals Adaptation, Critical Studies in Television, the Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television, Media History and Screen.

Sarah Cardwell is Honorary Fellow in the School of Arts at the University of Kent. She is a General Editor (with Jonathan Bignell and Lucy Fife Donaldson) of Manchester University Press's The Television Series, which she co-founded with Bignell, and co-editor of the Moments in Television collections. Sarah's research within television aesthetics and adaptation studies is characteristically inspired by analytic philosophical aesthetics. She is the author of Adaptation revisited (2002) and Andrew Davies (2005) (both Manchester University Press), as well as numerous articles and papers on literary adaptation, contemporary British literature and television aesthetics, and she is an Editorial Advisor to Critical Studies in Television.

Lucy Fife Donaldson is Senior Lecturer at the University of St Andrews. She is a General Editor (with founding editors Sarah Cardwell and Jonathan Bignell) of Manchester University Press's The Television Series and co-editor of the Moments in Television collections. Lucy's research focuses on the materiality of style and the body in popular film and television. She is the author of Texture in film (Palgrave, 2014), co-editor of Television performance (Red Globe Press, 2019) and a member of the editorial boards of Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism and MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture.

Caroline L. Eastwood is a PhD student of Film and seminar leader at the University of Kent. Her research focus is the perception of cinematic and televisual sound, specifically how its construction and interaction with the image can create meaning through an embodied experience. Interdisciplinary in nature, her research engages with the intersection between phenomenology, cognitive film theory, psychology and neuroscience. Caroline's doctoral thesis is currently entitled Feeling sound: cinematic sound, subjective narration and embodiment with a particular focus on how female filmmakers use sound to express the subjective perceptual experiences of character.

Paul Elliott is the author of three books on film and popular culture: Hitchcock and the cinema of sensations (Bloomsbury, 2011), a study that deals with embodiment and philosophy in the work of Alfred Hitchcock; Guattari reframed (Bloomsbury, 2012), an introductory volume on the French psychoanalyst and activist Félix Guattari and Studying the British crime film (Auteur Publishing, 2014). He has a PhD in film studies and has written widely in the area of cinema and television. He has a passion for British cinema of the late 1970s and 1980s and has a daughter.

Tim Butler Garrett is a freelance academic, editor of the British UNIMA journal Puppet Notebook and a visiting lecturer at Wimbledon College of Art. His research interests include the connections between puppets, the cinematic and contemporary Visual Theatre; ‘Vienna 1900’; and 1960s counter-culture. Recent writing for books and journals includes chapters on the UK's Suffragist movement; Jim Henson's Labyrinth; the modernist avant-garde's engagement with female simulacra as objects of arousal; the Mitteleuropean sensibility of Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut; and gender in the films of Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Maike Helmers is an independent researcher, focusing on the confluence of editing and sound in narrative, as well as the relationship between music, sound and emotion. She originally trained as a Film Editor and Sound Designer with the Film Department of the BBC in London, where she relished contributing to a range of award-winning programmes for a decade. Maike then moved into the higher education sector to instigate a pioneering programme in post-production sound, accomplishing over twenty years of experience teaching sound design, film and editing, and completing a PhD in German sound film history.

Richard Hewett is Senior Lecturer in Contextual Studies for Film and Television at University of the Arts London. His research interests include screen performance, adaptation, and developments in television production context, focusing on the shift from multi-camera studio to single-camera location. He has previously contributed articles to The Journal of British Cinema and Television, The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Critical Studies in Television, Adaptation, Comedy Studies and Series – International Journal of Serial TV Narratives. His monograph The changing spaces of television acting: from studio realism to location realism in BBC television drama was published by Manchester University Press in 2017.

Peter Hughes Jachimiak is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of South Wales, UK. Peter's Remembering the cultural geographies of home (Ashgate, 2014) is concerned with both the experiencing of the spaces, places and media forms that make up the childhood family home and its immediate surroundings and the cultural texts that reverberate within our memories of those spaces, places and media forms. Furthermore, Peter has published an article for the Journal of British Cinema and Television entitled “‘A Dream of Wessex”: Southern Television's Spearhead and representations of the British army's rural landscape’ (2011).

Elliott Logan is Lecturer in Media and Communication at The University of Queensland. He is the author of Breaking Bad and dignity (Palgrave Macmillan 2016) and is the Associate Editor of the television studies journal Series.

Christa van Raalte is Associate Professor of Film and Television and Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Media and Communication at Bournemouth University. She gained her BA in English from Oxford and her MA in Cultural and Textual Studies from Sunderland, where she also completed her PhD: Women and guns in the post-war Hollywood Western. Current research interests include constructions of gender in science fiction and action films, narrative strategies in complex TV, and workforce diversity in the media industries.