Controversial Images: Media Representations on the Edge

FEONA ATTWOOD is Professor of Sex, Communication and Culture at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She is the editor of Mainstreaming Sex: The Sexualization of Western Culture (2009) and porn.com: Making Sense of Online Pornography (2010). VINCENT CAMPBELL is Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Leicester, UK. He is the author of Information Age Journalism (2004) and has published work on communication in European, British and American elections, as well as work on the communication of science in television documentary and factual entertainment. I.Q. HUNTER is Reader in Film Studies at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. He has published widely on cult, exploitation and genre cinema and screen adaptations. SHARON LOCKYER is Lecturer in Sociology and Communications at Brunel University, UK. She is editor of Reading Little Britain: Comedy Matters on Contemporary Television (2010) and co-editor (with Michael Pickering) of Beyond a Joke: The Limits of Humour (Palgrave 2005; 2009). She has also published in a variety of academic journals on critical comedy studies and the sociology of mediated culture.