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John Ellis (born 23 May 1952) is a British former TV producer and professor of media arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. Ellis studied English at the University of Cambridge 1970-3 and at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at University of Birmingham 1973-6. From 1978-1982 he taught Film Studies at University of Kent at Canterbury. ==TV Producer 1982-1999== In 1982 he joined Simon Hartog and Keith Griffiths to form Large Door, the company that bid successfully to make ''Visions'', a magazine series on world cinema for Channel 4 when it opened in 1982. ''Visions'' ran for three series until 1985. Griffiths left the company in 1984, but Ellis and Hartog continued producing documentaries separately and together until Hartog's death in 1992. Large Door made over 100 documentaries until it ceased production in 1999. The company produced two documentaries on the Cinema of China presented by Tony Rayns: ''Cinema in China'' (1983) outlined the history, hitherto scarcely known in the West; and ''New Chinese Cinema'' (1989) concentrated on the 'Fifth Generation.' Large Door also produced: *''Beyond Citizen Kane'' a history of TV in Brazil (directed and co-produced by Simon Hartog) *''The Holy Family Album'' from a script by Angela Carter *''This Food Business'', a current affairs series on Britain's food supply *''Distilling Whisky Galore!,'' on the making of the 1949 British film *''Riding the Tiger'' (1997), directed by Po-Chih Leong and Sze Wing Leong, chronicling the period up to the British hand-over of Hong Kong to China. As a leading producer, John Ellis was elected vice-chair of the producers' organisation PACT (1989–93). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Ellis (media academic)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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