Jez Conolly

Jez comes from a cinema family; his father was an overworked cinema manager, his mother an ice-cream-wielding usherette and his grandfather a brass-buttoned commissionaire. Consequently he didn't have to pay to see a film until he was 21 and having to fork out for admission still comes as a mild shock to this day. His book 'Beached Margin: the role and representation of the seaside resort in British film' was published in 2008. Since early 2009 he has contributed to the Big Picture magazine website and print edition. He is currently co-editing several volumes in the World Film Locations book series published by Intellect. In his spare time he is the Arts and Social Sciences & Law Faculty Librarian at University of Bristol.