Dr James Leggott

I am a scholar of British film and television culture, with a specific interest in regional representation, contemporary screen production, popular genre, and creative figures who have been critically overlooked. I have authored monographs on contemporary British cinema, the work of the Amber film collective, and the representation of North East England on film and televsion.  I have co-edited collections on traditions of UK science fiction film and television, period drama, medical representation, and the comedy of Chris Morris.

I am currently completing a book on the writer Alan Plater. 

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• Billy Elliot, Leggott, J. 4 Sep 2025
• Spine-chilling Possibilities:: Britannia Hospital and British Horror Production, Leggott, J. 1 Dec 2025, The Films of Lindsay Anderson, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press
• The Benny Hill Waltz and the Blackmail theme: Library music and television comedy in the 1970s, Leggott, J. 6 Feb 2025, Anonymous Sounds, London, Bloomsbury
• Diagnosing History: Medicine in Television Period Drama, Byrne, K., Taddeo, J., Leggott, J. 25 Mar 2022
• ‘Physician, heal thyself’: The good doctor of When the Boat Comes In, Leggott, J. 22 Mar 2022, Diagnosing history, Manchester, United Kingdom, Manchester University Press
• The North East of England on Film and Television, Leggott, J. 30 Jun 2021
• In Fading Light: The Films of the Amber Collective, Leggott, J. 9 Apr 2020
• Conflicting Masculinities: Men in Television Period Drama, Leggott, J., Taddeo, J., Byrne, K. 30 May 2018
• “No Need to Matronise Me!”: The Crown, the Male Consort and Conflicted Masculinity, Leggott, J. 30 Jul 2018, Conflicting Masculinities, London; New York, Bloomsbury
• From Newcastle to Nashville: The Northern Soul of Jimmy Nail, Leggott, J. 9 May 2017, Social Class and Television Drama in Contemporary Britain, Palgrave Macmillan

• Stuart Frazer The Catherine Cookson Television Cycle: Identity, Memory and Heritage Start Date: 01/10/2018 End Date: 08/06/2025
• Geoffrey Matthews The surviving child in film Start Date: 01/10/2019 End Date: 17/10/2025
• Geoffrey Matthews They Abide: Surviving Children in Contemporary Cinema Start Date: 01/10/2019

• Film and Television Studies PhD January 01 2004
• Fellow (FHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA) 2005