John Ellis is a British academic and former TV producer, professor of media arts at Royal Holloway University of London. Ellis was born on 23 May 1952, and studied English at Cambridge University 1970-3 and Cultural Studies at Birmingham University1973-6.
After teaching Film Studies at University of Kent at Canterbury he was part Large Door, the company that bid successfully to make Visions, a series on world cinema for Channel 4when it opened in 1982. Subsequent productions included Beyond Citizen Kane (directed and co-produced by Simon Hartog, Ellis's partner in Large Door; The Holy Family Album from a script by Angela Carter; This Food Business, a current affairs series on Britain's food supply; and Riding the Tiger (1997), directed by Po-Chih Leong and Sze Wing Leong, chronicling the period up to the hand-over of Hong Kong to China.
By this time, Ellis had become a Professor in the Media School at Bournemouth University. He joined the Media Arts Department at Royal Holloway University of London in September 2002.
Ellis's books include: Documentary: Witness and Self-revelation (Routlege 2011); TV FAQ (IB Tauris,2007); Seeing Things: Television in the Age of Uncertainty (IB Tauris, 2000; Visible Fictions: Cinema, Television, Video (Routledge 1982); Language and Materialism (Routledge 1977) with Rosalind Coward
External links edit
- Web page at Royal Holloway
- [http://www.ibtauris.com/display.asp?K=9781845115654&m=41&ds=television&sort=sort_title&mw=1&q=((PCODE%20contains(36056%20or%20109299%20or%2086296%20or%2056408))%20or%20(LCODE%20contains(69277))%20or%20(REF_NO%20contains%20(9780954408312))%20)&st_01=atn*&sf_01=BIC_SUBJ_CODE&dc=42 TV FAQ details