MeCCSA - Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association

Management committee

Overview

Anita Biressi

Anita Biressi is Head of Film, Media and Cultural Studies in the School of Arts, Roehampton University, London. Her research into media spectacle, documentary and factual film and TV and crime and the media have lead to articles in journals and collections including Space and Culture, Screen and the Journal for Cultural Research. She is the author of Crime, Fear and the Law in True Crime Stories (2001) and co-author of Reality TV: Realism and Revelation (2005). She also co-edited the Mediactive edition entitled ‘Media War’ (2004) and the Tabloid Culture Reader (2007). 

Anita has been a member of the Women’s Media Studies Network since its inception. She became a member of the organising group in, and she currently  oversees publicity and communications for the Network. Anita is also an elected member of the MeCCSA Executive, where she currently serves on the Events and Activities sub-committee.

a.biressi@roehampton.ac.uk