'Grease Is the Word': Exploring a Cultural Phenomenon - Paperback

by Oliver Gruner (Editor), Peter Krämer (Editor)

Bringing together a group of international scholars, 'Grease Is the Word' offers fresh insight into the impact and legacy of the cultural phenomenon that is Grease.

Author Biography

Oliver Gruner is a senior lecturer in visual culture at the University of Portsmouth, UK. He is the author of Screening the Sixties: Hollywood Cinema and the Politics of Memory (2016). His work has also been published or is forthcoming in journals such as the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Rethinking History and The Poster as well as in various edited collections.

Peter Krämer is a senior research fellow in cinema and TV in the Leicester Media School at De Montfort University, UK, and a senior fellow in the School of Art, Media and American Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK. He is also a regular guest lecturer at Masaryk University, Czech Republic, and at the University of Television and Film, Munich, Germany. Krämer is the author or co-editor of nine academic books.