Theme: Downton Abbey and the Heritage Tradition in British Film and Television
Speaker: Sean Holmes (PhD from Brunel University London)
Language: English
Form: MS Teams Meeting
Time: 7th May, 2022 (Friday）15：00-17：10
Site: Room 500 of the Building of Foreign Language
Organizer: School of Foreign Studies
Brief introduction to the Speaker:
Dr. Sean Holmes is Vice Dean International for the College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences at Brunel University London. He graduated from Durham University with a degree in Modern History. He went on to complete an MA in American History at Bowling Green State University, Ohio and a PhD in American History at New York University. He has published extensively on the politics of cultural production in the United States, focusing in particular on trade unionism in the early twentieth-century American theatre and the regulation of actors’ labour in silent-era Hollywood. His monograph Weavers of Dreams, Unite!: Actors’ Unionism in Early Twentieth-Century America was published by the University of Illinois Press in 2013 to coincide with the centenary of the founding of the Actors’ Equity Association, the union that represents American stage actors. He co-edited (with Andrew Dawson of the University of Greenwich) Working in the Global Film and Television Industries: Creativity, Systems, Space, Patronage (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2012), an interdisciplinary collection of essays on the experience of working in film and television production. He teaches in the Film and Television Studies programme at Brunel
