Dr David James
Programme Leader, BA (Hons) Film & Media Studies
Telephone : 0161 247 1942
Email : d.james@mmu.ac.uk
Office : Righton Building / Room 106
David James is the Programme Leader for the Film and Media degree.
His research interests include the portrayal of class in British wartime films, British war films of the 1950s and in British sitcoms of the 1960s, 70s and 80s. He is also interested in (particularly British) Comedy and Light Entertainment and is interested in supervising postgraduate work in these areas.
David completed a BA (Hons) in Film, Photography ands Graphic Media at Manchester Metropolitan University 2000 and then completed an MA (with Distinction) in Visual Culture at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2001. He was awarded a PhD by Manchester Metropolitan University in March 2006, for his thesis on the representation of class in the sitcoms of Perry and Croft.