Keith Dando

Biography

Keith Dando recently completed “Power, Corruption, Exploitation and Abuse in the Early Film Industry”, his PhD thesis. His interest in past filmmaking practice stems from his time working in the industry, and he has had a lengthy career as an educator in this area. His initial research on early colour filmmaking led to ‘The Three Processes of Dr. Bernardi’ (2019) available on the BAFTSS Special Interest Group website colourandfilm.com. In the same year he presented papers on filmmaking at conferences in York and Brest, Brittany. Currently he is researching a number of projects intended for publication, including a study of actor William Hartnell for the forthcoming Palgrave MacMillan book British Sitcoms and Masculinity.