Julian Petley

Julian Petley (born 1949) is a British media scholar and Honorary Professor of Social and Political Sciences at Brunel University of London. He is also a freelance journliast, publishing articles mainly online.

Petley has authored, co-authored, and co-edited a number of books including Ill Effects (1997), British Horror Cinema (2001), Culture Wars (2005), Film and Video Censorship in Modern Britain (2011), Moral Panics in the Contemporary World (2013), and Shocking Cinema of the 70s (2023).

Petley is a professor of journalism at Brunel University and his teaching areas are in media policy and regulation and the history of British cinema and television. He is a member of the editorial board of the British Journalism Review and he is a member of the National Council of the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom. He has also contributed to sites like Open Democracy and The Guardian.

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