Well, here's a bit of info... take note of the last line, he's planning a book about the "myth" of the "Loony Left". My goodness, think he could be a liberal????? ;-)
Looks like he is just another one of those intellectual hypocrits who passionately defends the Freedom of Speech... except when people state information that liberals don't want to get out to the public.
Julian Petley
E-mail:
Julian.Petley@brunel.ac.uk
Julian Petley lectures in Sociology and Communication in the Department of Human Sciences. His current research interests include media policy and regulation (with a particular emphasis on censorship in its various forms), the British cinema, the British press, and media influence.
Recent books include Ill Effects (co-edited with Martin Barker), Routledge 1997 (substantially revised new edition to be published in October 2000); and Forbidden British Cinema (Vol.3 of The Journal of Popular British Cinema, co-edited with Ian Conrich), Flicks Books, 2000.
Some recent published articles are: 'The cinema and the state, or why Horny Catbabe matters', in the Forbidden British Cinema volume; 'The regulation of media content', in The Media in Britain, Jane Stokes and Anna Reading (eds), Macmillan 1999; 'The pilgrim's regress: the politics of the Boultings' films', in The Films of the Boulting Brothers, Alan Burton and Tim O'Sullivan (eds), Flicks Books 2000; 'Art Cinema', in The Cinema Book (second edition), Pam Cook and Mieke Bernink (eds), British Film Institute 1999; 'Faces for Spaces', in The Journalism Reader, Michael Bromley and Tom O'Malley (eds), Routledge 1997.
Julian Petley is also chair of the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom and a member of the editorial boards of the British Journalism Review and the independent media magazine Vertigo.
Future plans include a book on the myth of the 'Loony Left', a study of the film director Michael Reeves, and a history of the 'other' British cinema.
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/depts/hs/cmcr/Staff1JP.htm