Dr Brett Mills
| Job Title | Contact | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Senior Lecturer |
Brett dot Mills at uea dot ac dot uk
Tel: +44 (0)1603 59 2094 |
Registry And Council House 3.05 |
Biography
My teaching and research focuses on popular television forms, in particular comedy. I’m especially interested in the sitcom, both historically and institutionally, as well as its national and international inflections. My other interests are the relationships between media/culture and identity, especially related to nation, region, and class.
Key Research Interests
Article
Mills, Brett (2013) Invalid Animals: Finding the non-Human Funny in Special Needs Pets. Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies. ISSN 1757-6458 (In Press)
Mills, Brett (2013) The Animals Went in Two by Two: Heteronormativity in Television Wildlife Documentaries. European Journal of Cultural Studies. ISSN 1367-5494 (In Press)
Cassidy, Angela and Mills, Brett (2012) 'Fox Tots Attack Shock': Urban Foxes, Mass Media and Spacial Boundaries. Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, 6 (4). pp. 494-511. ISSN 1752-4032
Friedman, Sam, Mills, Brett and Phillips, Tom (2011) Comedy Audiences - Editor's Introduction: Foregrounding The Comedy Audience. Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies, 8 (2). pp. 120-127. ISSN 1749-8716
Mills, Brett (2011) Days of Future Past: Documenting the Future. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 8 (1). pp. 81-98. ISSN 1743-4521
Mills, Brett (2011) The Guardians of the General Interest: Discourses of Knowledge in QI. Television and New Media, 12 (2). pp. 136-153.
Mills, Brett (2011) Invisible Television: The Television Programmes No-One Talks About Even Though Lots of People Watch Them. Critical Studies in Television, 5 (1).
Mills, Brett (2011) 'A pleasure working with you': Humour Theory and Joan Rivers. Comedy Studies, 2 (2). pp. 151-160. ISSN 2040610X
Mills, Brett (2010) Television Wildlife: Documentaries and Animals' Right to Privacy. Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 12 (2). pp. 193-202.
Mills, Brett (2010) Those Pig-Men Things. Media Culture Journal, 13 (5).
Mills, Brett (2010) On Television Comedy as an Invented Tradition. Media International Australia, 134 (1). pp. 64-73.
Mills, Brett (2010) Being Rob Brydon: Performing the Self in Comedy. Celebrity Studies, 1 (2). pp. 190-202.
Mills, Brett (2009) Welsh/From Wales: Representations of the Welsh in Contemporary Television Sitcom. Cyfrwng: Media Wales Journal, 6 (1). pp. 47-60.
Mills, Brett (2008) My House was on Torchwood!: Media, Place and Identity. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 11 (4). pp. 379-99.
Mills, Brett (2008) After the Interview. The Cinema Journal, 47 (2). pp. 148-53.
Mills, Brett (2008) Paranoia, Paranoia, Everbody's Coming to Get Me: Peep Show, Sitcom and the Surveillance Society. Screen, 49 (1). pp. 51-64.
Mills, Brett (2007) What Happens When Your Home is on Television. Media/Culture Journal, 10 (4).
Mills, Brett (2004) New Jokes: Kath and Kim and Recent Golbal Sitcom. Metro 140, 140. pp. 100-103.
Mills, Brett (2004) Comedy Verite: Contemporary Sitcom Form. Screen, 45 (1). pp. 63-78.
Mills, Brett (2003) Tabloid Tales: Other News, Other Voices. Journal of the Institute of Justice and International Studies, 1 (2). pp. 23-32.
Book Section
Mills, Brett (2012) 'American Remake - Shudder': Online Debates About Life on Mars and Britishness. In: Life on Mars: From Manchester to New York. University of Wales Press, Cardiff, pp. 133-44. ISBN 978-0708323595
Mills, Brett (2010) I'm Anti-Little Britain, and I'm Worried I Might Start Laughing: Audience Responses to Little Britain. In: Reading 'Little Britain': Comedy Matters on Contemporary Television: Yeah But Groundbreaking TV Comedy. IB Tauris, pp. 147-70. ISBN 9781845119393
Mills, Brett (2010) Contemporary Comedy Performance in British Sitcom. In: Genre and Performance: Film and Television. Manchester University Press.
Mills, Brett (2007) “Yes, It’s War!”: Chris Morris and Comic Acceptability. In: Experimental British Television. Routledge, pp. 180-194. ISBN 0719075548
Mills, Brett (2001) Studying Comedy’ and ‘Humour Theory’. In: The Television Genre Book. British Film Institute., pp. 61-63. ISBN 0851708498
Book
Mills, Brett and Barlow, David (2012) Reading Media Theory: Thinkers, Approaches, Contexts. 2nd edition. Pearson Education, London. ISBN 978-1-4082-8525-1
Mills, Brett (2009) Reading Media Theory. London: Pearson Education, p. 744. ISBN 9781405821995
Mills, Brett (2009) The Sitcom. EUP, p. 160. ISBN 9780748637522
Mills, Brett (2005) Television Sitcom. British Film Institute, p. 185. ISBN 1844570886
Other
Mills, Brett (2010) Why We Should consider the Privacy of Animals. The Guardian Online.
Mills, Brett (2004) 'Grange Hill', 'Till Death Us Do Part/All in the Family', 'I Love Lucy', 'Brass Eye', 'The Simpsons', 'Monty Python's Flying Circus',. Hodder Arnold.
