Graham Barnfield

Graham Barnfield (born 5 November 1969 in Leicester) is a British academic and pundit associated with the hard left Revolutionary Communist Party (1981–1997).

In 1993 he began writing on cultural politics in the United States under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Graham Barnfield also comments on documentary representation, leading to some radio and television appearances discussing reality television and happy slapping [1]. He teaches journalism at the University of East London.

He is the former editor of Culture Matters: Communications, Media & Communities (Sheffield Hallam University Press) and was a 2003 Fellow of the Wolfsonian-FIU.

He received a BA (Hons) in English with media studies, from the University of Sussex in 1992, and a Ph.D. in cultural studies with the dissertation Co-opting Culture: State Intervention in and Party Patronage of Literary and Popular Culture, 1929–1941, from Sheffield Hallam University in 1996.

As a teenager, he was a vocalist in Leicester rock band the Marmite Sisters. He briefly developed a sideline as a bit-part actor, including a feature credit in Number One Longing, Number Two Regret [2] and now writes for a wide range of publications.

Partial filmography

Films

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2013	The Thinker in the Supermarket		voiceover
2005	Plato's Breaking Point		scenes re-shot
2004	Number One Longing, Number Two, Regret	Woods' guy
2001	Mr In-Between	Dancing party guest	uncredited

TV

Year	TV show	Role	Notes
2007	The Real Outlaws	Himself - Interviewee
1997	Police 2020

External links

• UEL page on Graham Barnfield
• Graham Barnfield's weblog
• Education Guardian profile of Graham Barnfield
• Graham Barnfield at the Internet Movie Database
• Graham Barnfield Twitter feed