James Fleury received his Ph.D. in Cinema and Media Studies at UCLA in 2019. His research focuses on the increasing overlap between the American film and technology industries.
Senior Lecturer James Fleury received his PhD in Cinema and Media Studies from UCLA in 2019. He is the co-editor of the anthology The Franchise Era: Managing Media in the Digital Economy (Edinburgh University Press, 2019). His publications have appeared in Medi- ascape (2012, 2015), the South Atlantic Review (2015), and the edited collections James Bond and Popular Culture: Essays on the Influence of the Fictional Superspy (McFarland, 2014), Film Reboots (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), Comics | Games: From Hybrid Medialities to Transmedia Expansions (Routledge, 2021), and Content Wars: Tech Empires vs. Media Empires (Rutgers University Press, forthcoming). He is currently writing a monograph about the history of Hollywood studios in the video game industry. His research interests include adaptation across film and video games, media distribution, and the contemporary American film and television industries.
