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James Chapman
James Chapman is Professor of Film at the University of Leicester, UK. He has wide-ranging research interests in the history of British cinema and popular culture. He is currently writing, with Nick Cull, Projecting the Future: Science Fiction and Popular Cinema, and is researching books on Contemporary British Television Drama and A New History of British Documentary. He is a Council member of the International Association of Media and History (IAMHIST) and editor of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television.
His main publications are The British at War: Cinema, State and Propaganda,1939-1945 (1998), Licence To Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bond Films (1999; 2nd edn 2007), Saints and Avengers: British Adventure Series of the 1960s (2002), Past and Present: National Identity and the British Historical Film (2005), Inside the Tardis: A Cultural History of Doctor Who (2006), The New Film History: Sources, Methods and Approaches (2007, co-edited with Mark Glancy and Sue Harper), War and Film (2008), Projecting Empire: Imperialism and Popular Cinema (2009, co-authored with Nicholas J. Cull) and The Great British Comic: A Cultural History (forthcoming in 2011).