Piers D Britton

Piers Britton is Professor and Director of Visual & Media Studies at the University of Redlands, Southern California. He is the author of TARD/Sbound (I.B.Tauris, 2011) and co-author of Reading Between Designs: Visual imagery and the generation of meaning in The Avengers, The Prisoner and Doctor Who (U.T. Press, 2003). He writes mostly on costume and production design for television and film, and is currently developing a book-length study of design for television and film, provisionally...See more

Piers Britton is Professor and Director of Visual & Media Studies at the University of Redlands, Southern California. He is the author of TARD/Sbound (I.B.Tauris, 2011) and co-author of Reading Between Designs: Visual imagery and the generation of meaning in The Avengers, The Prisoner and Doctor Who (U.T. Press, 2003). He writes mostly on costume and production design for television and film, and is currently developing a book-length study of design for television and film, provisionally entitled Immaterial Culture: Theorizing Design for Screen Entertainment. He teaches on screen genres, television aesthetics, the arts and art theory in the Renaissance, and gender in art and the media. See less