Phyll Smith writes on the social politics of media in the first half of the 20th century, publishing on British and American Cinema Serials of the 30’s and 40’s, American pornographic comics of the 1930’s and journalism and newsreels in the Spanish Civil War. His phd is on the American Sound Serial, it’s exhibition and audience, and is particularly interested in the audiences for and exhibition culture that surrounds Serial texts. His other serial research interests include the documentary series March of Time, radio serials, the practice of rewatching and reviewing, and iterative propaganda.
He is the author of a political biography of Tom Wintringham The Last English Revolutionary (London School of Economics/Sussex Academic Press). He teaches at UEA as associate tutor.
To be Continued… Serials, series & sequential media 