Jonathan Bignell

I am a Professor at the University of Reading and I publish academic studies about British television history and the methodologies of television and film analysis. Much of my work uses archival sources alongside the detailed study of the audiovisual form and style of films and television programmes. I have often written about Samuel Beckett's media dramas, science fiction TV programmes and children's TV, and I am also interested in comparative work about how television developed differently in the UK, in Europe and in the USA. I studied at Cambridge University and the University of Sussex.