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Notes on Contributors
Martin Barker is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University
of Wales, Aberystwyth. He has published thirteen books of research, including
(with Roger Sabin) The Lasting of the Mohicans: History of an American Myth
(University Press of Mississippi, 1996); (edited, with Julian Petley) Ill Effects:
the Media Violence Debate (Routledge, 1997 and 2001); (with Kate Brooks)
Knowing Audiences: Judge Dredd, its Friends, Fans and Foes (University of Luton
Press, 1998) which presented the findings of an eighteen-month ESRC-funded
research project, and (with a contribution from Thomas Austin) From Antz To
Titanic: Reinventing Film Analysis (Pluto, 2000). In 2001 he published the
findings of a second ESRC project on the reception of David Cronenberg’s
Crash in Britain in 1996–7 (The Crash Controversy: Censorship Campaigns and
Film Reception, Wallflower Press 2001, co-researched and written with Jane
Arthurs and Ramaswami Harindranath). His most recent book, Watching The
Lord of the Rings (co-edited with Ernest Mathijs, Peter Lang, 2007), presents
the main findings of the (ESRC-funded) world audience project on the reception
of the Jackson/Tolkien movies. He is joint editor of the online journal
Participations, which is devoted to audience and reception studies.
Dr Aeron Davis is a Senior Lecturer and Director of the MA in Political
Communications in the Department of Media and Communications,
Goldsmiths College. His research interests include promotional culture, media
sociology and news production; public relations, politics and political communications;
markets and economic sociology/cultural economy. He has conducted
research on communications at Westminster, at the London Stock
Exchange, amongst the major political parties and across the trade union
movement. He has published on each of these topics in journals and edited
collections, and is the author of Public Relations Democracy (Manchester
University Press, 2002) and The Mediation of Power (Routledge, 2007). He is