Jane C. Stokes

Jane Stokes teaches and researches on film, television and the media. She is interested in how we know what we know. Her publications reflect twin interests: in research methodology and the machinations of the media.

"How we know anything about anything?" -- This is a key theme in How to Do Media and Cultural Studies -- a standard text book for students writing a dissertation or conducting their first piece of major research at University level. In 2021 the third edition of the best selling text book was published by Sage Publications.

On Screen Rivals is about how films construct a particular idea of television - and how the material reality of the relationship between film and television inflects the work produced. It asks: What is the idea of television? How has this changed through the years? How does the representation of television differ in films in the US and the UK?

Jane is currently working on a play about Nina Simone and is looking forward to writing the fourth edition of How to Do Media and Cultural Studies.