Associate Professor in Film and Media, University of Lincoln
I'm a researcher, writer and teacher specialising in teaching film, TV and media. I've published widely on aesthetic and institutional relationships between film and television, on biographical television programming, and on television representations of real people in drama and comedy. My current project is on televisual caricature - that is, exaggerated, comedic depictions of real individiuals for television. I've taught and supervised a range of subjects in film, television and media, including television history, film and television analysis, media aesthetics, media and creative industries and research methods.
Spitting Image at 40: the story of the show is surprisingly influenced by Thatcher
Feb 20, 2024 11:06 am UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment
Spitting Image, first broadcast in February 1984, is famed as an iconoclastic satire of 1980s political and popular culture. Its grotesque puppet caricatures became so well known that they could cement a persons image in...