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John Ellis is a British academic and former TV producer, professor of media arts at Royal Holloway University of London. Ellis was born on 23 May 1952, and studied English at Cambridge University 1970-3 and Cultural Studies at Birmingham University1973-6.

After teaching Film Studies at University of Kent at Canterbury he was part Large Door, the company that bid successfully to make Visions, a series on world cinema for Channel 4when it opened in 1982. Subsequent productions included Beyond Citizen Kane (directed and co-produced by Simon Hartog, Ellis's partner in Large Door; The Holy Family Album from a script by Angela Carter; This Food Business, a current affairs series on Britain's food supply; and Riding the Tiger (1997), directed by Po-Chih Leong and Sze Wing Leong, chronicling the period up to the hand-over of Hong Kong to China.

By this time, Ellis had become a Professor in the Media School at Bournemouth University. He joined the Media Arts Department at Royal Holloway University of London in September 2002.

Ellis's books include: Documentary: Witness and Self-revelation (Routlege 2011); TV FAQ (IB Tauris,2007); Seeing Things: Television in the Age of Uncertainty (IB Tauris, 2000; Visible Fictions: Cinema, Television, Video (Routledge 1982); Language and Materialism (Routledge 1977) with Rosalind Coward