Christine Geraghty is Chair of Film and Television Studies
in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies
at University of Glasgow. Before becoming a full time academic
in 1993, she had taught film part time for many years, whilst
pursuing a career as a trade unionist, both experiences which
come in useful now. She is the author of a number of books
and articles on film and television, most recently British
Cinema in the Fifties: Gender, Genre and the ‘New Look’ and
is working on a study of My Beautiful Laundrette. She has
been on the Executive Committee for the past three years and
is currently the outgoing Chairperson of MeCCSA (new Chair to be elected in February 2010).
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