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Professor John Hill

John Hill is Professor of Media at Royal Holloway, University of London. His research and writing has focused on a variety of areas including film and television history, national and regional cinemas, the film industry, film policy and the politics of film. Hill is the author of Sex, Class and Realism: British Cinema 1956-63 (1986), British Cinema in the 1980s (1999),Cinema and Northern Ireland: Film, Culture and Politics (2006) and Ken Loach: The Politics of Film and Television (2011) as well as the co-author of Cinema and Ireland (1987). He is also the editor or co-editor of various collections including Border Crossing: Film in Ireland, Britain and Europe (1994), Big Picture, Small Screen: the Relations Between Film and Television (1996), The Oxford Guide to Film Studies (1998), the Companion to British and Irish Cinema (2019) and  five special issues of the Journal of British Cinema and Television – on ‘Film in Britain in the New Millennium’ (2012), ‘Radical Television Drama’ (2013), ‘Ken Russell’ (2015), ‘Play for Today at 50’ (2022) and ‘Film, Television and Northern Ireland’ (2023) – and special issues of the Journal of International Cultural Policy on ‘Film Policy in a Globalised Cultural Cultural Economy’ (2016) and the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television on ‘Forgotten Television Drama’ (2017). He also curates the ‘Forgotten Television Drama’ website.

He was Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded research project on ‘The History of Forgotten Television Drama in the UK’ (2013-17) and was involved in successful bids for the establishment and funding of the AHRB Centre for British Film and Television Studies, the Irish Postgraduate Film Seminar and the Centre for Media Research at the University of Ulster (for which he was awarded over £3 million). He is currently  a member of the Royal Television Society Archive Advisory Group and the Northern Ireland Film Heritage and Archive Working Group and is responsible for collaborative PhDs with the BFI on ‘Play for Today’, with Northern Ireland Screen and the Public Record office of Northern Ireland on ‘Ulster Television in the 1960s’  and with the BBC on Screen Two. He is a former Governor of the British Film Institute and Director of the UK Film Council.

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