Professor Jonathan Bignell

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Professor of Television and Film
Research Division Lead for Film, Theatre & Television
Areas of interest
I work primarily on television history and the methodologies of television and film analysis. So my work includes using archival sources alongside the detailed study of the audiovisual form and style of films and television programmes, mainly from the UK and USA. I was taught by Raymond Williams, Stephen Heath and other screen theorists, studying at the universities of Cambridge and Sussex.
I also have longstanding research interests in Samuel Beckett's media drama. I have led teams of researchers on several major collaborative externally-funded research projects:
- Spaces of Television (2010–2015)
- Acting with Facts (2007–2010)
- Beckett and the Phenomenology of Doodles (2006–2009)
- British TV Drama and Acquired US Programmes, 1970–2000 (2005–2008)
- Cultures of British Television Drama, 1960–1982 (2002–2006)
- The BBC Wednesday Play and Post-War British Drama (1996–2000).
And most recently, on Harold Pinter: Histories and Legacies, funded by AHRC from 2017-20, I led research into Pinter's work for television, radio and cinema.
Postgraduate supervision
I welcome enquiries from prospective postgraduate students who would like to work on such topics as the history or theory of television, children's media, or Samuel Beckett's work in film and television. I have supervised over 20 PhD theses on topics in TV drama, science fiction film and television, Beckett's media plays, and screen adaptations of British classic novels.
Teaching
I have taught television, cinema, critical theory and literature at the universities of Sussex, Royal Holloway and Reading.
Research centres and groups
Professional bodies/affiliations
- Corresponding Editor, Critical Studies in Television
- General Editor, The Television Series, Manchester University Press
- Member of the editorial advisory board, Journal of Science Fiction Film and Television
- Member of the editorial advisory board, New Review of Film and Television Studies
- Member of the editorial advisory board, International Journal of Scottish Theatre and Screen
- Member of the editorial advisory board, Studies in Documentary Film
- Member of the editorial advisory board, Journal of Popular Television
- Member of the editorial advisory board, Symbolism: An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics
- Scientific Committee, Revue LISA/LISA e-journal
- Member of the Board of Trustees, the Beckett International Foundation
- Member and Co-Chair, the Southern Broadcasting History Group
- Member of the Board, the Graduate Centre for International Research in Childhood
- Member of the Advisory Committee, the British Association for Modernist Studies
- Member of the Executive Committee, the Centre for Film Aesthetics and Cultures (CFAC)
Selected publications
Full-text PDFs of some of my publications can be downloaded for free on Academia or from the list of publications below.
Publications
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Bignell, J.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4874-1601 , McMullan, A.
ORCID: 0000-0002-2531-3746 , Verhulst, P. , eds. (2023) Beckett's afterlives: adaptation, remediation, appropriation. Manchester University Press , Manchester. pp 288. ISBN: 9781526153791
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Cardwell, S.
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Bignell, J.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4874-1601 , Donaldson, L. , eds. (2023) Epic / everyday: moments in television. The Television Series Manchester University Press , Manchester. pp 264. ISBN: 9781526170224
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Bignell, J.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4874-1601 (2023) The epic in the everyday: television and Doctor Who, ‘The Chase’. In: Cardwell, S. , Bignell, J. , Donaldson, L. , (eds.) Epic / Everyday: Moments in Television. The Television Series Manchester University Press , Manchester. ISBN: 9781526170224
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Bignell, J.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4874-1601 (2023) Adaptation and convergence: Beckett on film. In: Bignell, J. , McMullan, A. , Verhulst, P. , (eds.) Beckett’s Afterlives: Adaptation, Remediation, Appropriation. Manchester University Press , Manchester. pp. 34-49. ISBN: 9781526153791
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Bignell, J.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4874-1601 (2023) Entanglements of intermediality: Polanski, Pinter, Steptoe and Son. In: Nagib, L. and Solomon, S. , (eds.) The Moving Form of Film: Historicising the Medium through Other Media. Oxford University Press , Oxford. pp. 267-280. ISBN: 9780197621707 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197621707.003.0017
- Bignell, J. and Woods, F. (2022) An introduction to television studies. 4th edition. Routledge , London. pp 336. ISBN: 9781138665811 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315619675
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Cardwell, S.
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Bignell, J.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4874-1601 , Fife Donaldson, L. , eds. (2022) Substance/style: moments in television. The Television Series Manchester University Press , Manchester. pp 258. ISBN: 9781526148780
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Cardwell, S.
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Bignell, J.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4874-1601 , Fife Donaldson, L. , eds. (2022) Sound/image: moments in television. The Television Series Manchester University Press , Manchester. pp 248. ISBN: 9781526149190
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Cardwell, S.
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Bignell, J.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4874-1601 , Fife Donaldson, L. , eds. (2022) Complexity/simplicity: moments in television. The Television Series Manchester University Press , Manchester. pp 280. ISBN: 9781526148759
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Bignell, J.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4874-1601 (2022) Screen and stage space in Beckett’s theatre plays on television. In: Wrigley, A. and Wyver, J. , (eds.) Screen Plays: Theatre Plays on British Television. Manchester University Press , Manchester. pp. 226-245. ISBN: 9780719097928
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Bignell, J.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4874-1601 (2022) Black screens: Beckett and television technologies. In: Rapcsak, B. , Nixon, M. , Schweighauser, P. , (eds.) Beckett and Media. Manchester University Press , Manchester. pp. 177-193. ISBN: 9781526145833
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Bignell, J.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4874-1601 (2022) Grand designs: television, style and substance in The Time Tunnel. In: Cardwell, S. , Bignell, J. , Donaldson, L. , (eds.) Moments in Television: Substance/style. The Television Series Manchester University Press , Manchester. pp. 202-224. ISBN: 9781526148780
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Bignell, J.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4874-1601 (2022) Alien or familiar: sounds and images in The Twilight Zone, ‘The Invaders’. In: Cardwell, S. , Bignell, J. , Donaldson, L. , (eds.) Moments in Television: Sound/image. The Television Series Manchester University Press , Manchester. pp. 15-37. ISBN: 9781526149190
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Bignell, J.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4874-1601 (2022) Vanity Fair (1967) and the contradictions of colour. In: Cardwell, S. , Bignell, J. , Donaldson, L. , (eds.) Moments in Television: Complexity/simplicity. The Television Series Manchester University Press , Manchester. pp. 192-215. ISBN: 9781526148759
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Bignell, J.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4874-1601 (2021) The absence of television: broadcasting and war in Britain, 1939-45. In: Dickason, R. , (eds.) Issues and Singularity in the British Media. Atlande , Paris.
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Bignell, J.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4874-1601 (2021) Cringe histories: Harold Pinter and the Steptoes. Humanities , 10 (2). ISSN: 2076-0787 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h10020083
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Bignell, J.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4874-1601 (2021) Articulations of voice and medium in Beckett’s screen work. In: De Vos, L. , Hori Tanaka, M. , Johnson, N. , (eds.) Beckett’s Voices / Voicing Beckett. Themes in Theatre , 12. Brill , Leiden. pp. 280-294. ISBN: 9789004468382 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004468382_021
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Bignell, J.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4874-1601 (2021) Adventures between TV and film, and between Britain and America. Ecrans , 15 (1). pp. 27-42. ISSN: 2267 4357 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-12259-3.p.0027 (Special issue "Mémoire et réécritures dans les séries télévisées")
- Bignell, J. (2021) Beckett and television: anachronism as innovation. In: Kiryushina, G. , Adar, E. , Nixon, M. , (eds.) Samuel Beckett and Technology. Edinburgh University Press , Edinburgh. ISBN: 9781474463287
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Bignell, J.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4874-1601 (2020) “Random dottiness”: Samuel Beckett and the reception of Harold Pinter’s early dramas. In: Rakoczy, A. , Hori Tanaka, M. , Johnson, N. , (eds.) Influencing Beckett / Beckett Influencing. Collection Karoli L'Harmattan , Budapest & Paris. pp. 61-74. ISBN: 9782343219110
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Bignell, J.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4874-1601 (2020) Children’s television and radio. In: Fournier, G. , (eds.) La BBC et le service public de l'audiovisuel, 1922-1995. Agregation Anglais Editions Ellipses , Paris. pp. 111-128. ISBN: 9782340041127
- Bignell, J. (2020) When Beckett on Film migrated to television. Књижевна историја (Literary History) , 51 (169). pp. 97-108. ISSN: 0350-6428 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.18485/kis.2019.51.169.5
- Bignell, J. and Davies, W. (2020) Introduction: Harold Pinter’s transmedial histories. Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television , 40 pp. 481-498. ISSN: 1465-3451 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2020.1778314
- Bignell, J. (2020) Television biopics: Questions of genre, nation, and medium. In: Cartmell, D. and Polasek, A. , (eds.) A Companion to the Biopic. Wiley Blackwell , Hoboken, New Jersey, USA. pp. 45-60. ISBN: 9781119554813 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119554783.ch4
- Bignell, J. (2020) Specially for television? Eh Joe, intermediality and Beckett’s drama. Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui , 32 (1). pp. 41-54. ISSN: 1875-7405 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757405-03201004
- Bignell, J. (2020) Pinter, authorship and entrepreneurship in 1960s British cinema: the economics of "The Quiller Memorandum". Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television , 40 (3). pp. 533-550. ISSN: 1465-3451 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2020.1778316
- Bignell, J. (2019) “Do you really enjoy the modern play?”: Beckett on commercial television. In: Stewart, P. and Pattie, D. , (eds.) Pop Beckett: Intersections with Popular Culture. Samuel Beckett in Company , 7. Ibidem , Stuttgart. pp. 63-84. ISBN: 9783838211930
- Bignell, J. (2019) The performing lives of things: animals, puppets, models and effects. In: Walters, J. and Donaldson, L. , (eds.) Television Performance. Red Globe Press , London. pp. 43-60. ISBN: 9781137608192
- Bignell, J. (2019) Performing the identity of the medium: adaptation and television historiography. Adaptation , 12 (2). pp. 149-164. ISSN: 1755-0645 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apz017
- Bignell, J. (2019) Meta-commentary and mythology: "Episodes" as a performance of transatlantic TV. In: Hills, M. , Hilmes, M. , Pearson, R. , (eds.) Transatlantic Television Drama: Industries, Programs and Fans. Oxford University Press , Oxford. pp. 163-180. ISBN: 9780190663124
- Bignell, J. (2018) Children of the world on British television: national and transnational representations. Strenae , 13 ISSN: 2109-9081 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.4000/strenae.1966 (Special issue: Le '68 des enfants / The Children's 68)
- Bignell, J. (2018) Performing television history. Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies , 13 (3). pp. 262-279. ISSN: 1749-6039 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1749602018782860
- Bignell, J. (2018) James Bond’s forgotten beginnings: television adaptations. In: Strong, J. , (eds.) James Bond Uncovered. Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture Palgrave Macmillan , Basingstoke. pp. 41-60. ISBN: 9783319761220 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76123-7_3
- Bignell, J. (2017) Children’s television and public service in contemporary Britain. In: Dinter, S. and Schneider, R. , (eds.) Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Childhood in Contemporary Britain. Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present Routledge , London, UK. pp. 87-102. ISBN: 9781138232105
- Bignell, J. (2017) Broadcasting children's music. InFormation: Nordic Journal of Art and Research , 6 (2). pp. 1-16. ISSN: 1893-2479 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.7577/information.v6i2.2275 (Special issue: Children's Music)
- Bignell, J. (2017) Myth. In: Ouellette, L. and Gray, J. , (eds.) Keywords for Media Studies. New York University Press , New York. pp. 123-125. ISBN: 9781479859610
- Bignell, J. and Burchardt, J. (2017) Agents, beneficiaries and victims: picturing people on the land. In: Haigron, D. , (eds.) The English Countryside: Representations, Identities, Mutations. Palgrave Macmillan , Basingstoke. pp. 61-82. ISBN: 9783319532721 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53273-8
- Bignell, J. (2016) Cars, places and spaces in police drama. In: McElroy, R. , (eds.) Contemporary British Television Crime Drama: Cops on the Box. Routledge Advances in Television Studies Routledge , London. pp. 123-136. ISBN: 9781472454935
- Bignell, J. (2016) Representing violence, playing control: warring constructions of masculinity in Action Man toys. In: Wesseling, E. , (eds.) The Child Savage, 1890–2010. From Comics to Games. Ashgate Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present Routledge , London. pp. 189-202. ISBN: 9781409455981
- Bignell, J. (2016) Authenticity and performance of class in British factual TV series. In: Cloarec, N. , Haigron, D. , Letort, D. , (eds.) Social Class on British and American Screens: Essays on Cinema and Television. McFarland , Jefferson, USA. pp. 58-73. ISBN: 9781476662343
- Bignell, J. (2015) Performing right: legal constraints and Beckett’s plays on BBC television. Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui , 27 pp. 129- 142. ISSN: 0927-3131 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004309937_011
- Bignell, J. (2014) The spaces of the Wednesday Play (BBC TV 1964–1970): production, technology and style. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television , 34 (3). pp. 369-389. ISSN: 0143-9685 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2014.937182 (Special issue "Production, site and style")
- Bignell, J. and Lacey, S. , eds. (2014) British television drama: past, present and future. 2nd edition. Palgrave Macmillan , Basingstoke. pp 272. ISBN: 9781137327567
- Bignell, J. (2013) Realism and reality formats. In: Ouellette, L. , (eds.) A companion to reality television. Wiley-Blackwell , Chichester; Hoboken, NJ. pp. 97-115. ISBN: 9780470659274
- Bignell, J. (2013) The look: style, technology and televisuality in the New Who. In: O'Day, A. , (eds.) Doctor Who: the eleventh hour. Who watching I. B. Tauris , London and New York. pp. 123-140. ISBN: 9781780760193
- Bignell, J. (2012) An introduction to television studies. 3rd edition.. Routledge , London . pp 348. ISBN: 9780415598163
- Bignell, J. , Paget, D. , Sutherland, H. , Taylor, L. (2011) Narrativising the facts: acting in screen and stage docudrama. In: Tönnies, M. and Flotmann, C. , (eds.) Narrative in Drama. Contemporary Drama in English Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier (18). , Trier. pp. 21-52. ISBN: 9783868213157
- Bignell, J. (2011) Television for children: problems of national specificity and globalisation. In: Lesnik-Oberstein, K. , (eds.) Children in Culture, Revisited: Further Approaches to Childhood. Palgrave Macmillan , Basingstoke. pp. 167-185. ISBN: 9780230275546
- Bignell, J. (2011) ‘Anything can happen in the next half-hour’: Gerry Anderson’s transnational science fiction. In: Hochscherf, T. and Leggott, J. , (eds.) British Science Fiction Film and Television: Critical Essays. Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy McFarland (29). , Jefferson (North Carolina) & London. pp. 73-84. ISBN: 9780786446216
- Bignell, J. (2011) Docudramatizing the real: developments in British TV docudrama since 1990. Studies in Documentary Film , 4 (3). pp. 195-208. ISSN: 1750-3280 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1386/sdf.4.3.195_1
- Bignell, J. (2010) Television and the popular: viewing from the British perspective. Journal of Literary Theory , 4 (2). pp. 181-198. ISSN: 1862-5290 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/JLT.2010.012
- Bignell, J. (2010) Spies, style and the Cold War: James Bond in the sixties and seventies. In: Ahrens, R. , Stierstorfer, K. , Dickason, R. , (eds.) Symbolism: an international annual of critical aesthetics. Special focus: propaganda . , 10. AMS Press , New York, USA. pp. 81-92. ISBN: 9780404635701
- Bignell, J. (2010) Into the void: Beckett's television plays and the idea of broadcasting. In: Caselli, D. , (eds.) Beckett and nothing: trying to understand Beckett. Manchester University Press , Manchester, UK. pp. 125-142. ISBN: 9780719080197
- Bignell, J. (2010) Docudrama performance: realism, recognition and representation. In: Cornea, C. , (eds.) Genre and performance: film and television. Manchester University Press , Manchester, UK. pp. 59-75. ISBN: 9780719079801
- Bignell, J. (2010) Star Wars (1977): back and forth in time and space. In: Brown, T. and Walters, J. , (eds.) Film moments: criticism, history, theory. British Film Institute and Palgrave , London, UK. pp. 111-115. ISBN: 9781844573363
- Bignell, J. (2010) Transatlantic spaces: production, location and style in 1960s-1970s action-adventure TV series. Media History , 16 (1). pp. 53-65. ISSN: 1469-9729 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13688800903395460
- Bignell, J. (2009) The police series. In: Gibbs, J. and Pye, D. , (eds.) Close-Up 03. Wallflower , London. pp. 1-66. ISBN: 9781905674787
- Bignell, J. (2009) Beckett on screen: the television plays. Manchester University Press , Manchester. pp 230. ISBN: 9780719064203
- Bignell, J. and Weissmann, E. (2008) Cultural difference? Not so different after all. Critical Studies in Television: scholarly studies in small screen fictions , 3 (1). pp. 93-98. ISSN: 1749-6020
- Bignell, J. and Fickers, A. , eds. (2008) A European television history. Wiley-Blackwell , New York. pp 288. ISBN: 9781405163392
- Bignell, J. (2007) Masculinité, musique et politique dans 'Excalibur'. In: Sipiere, D. and Cohen, A. , (eds.) Les autres arts dans l'art du cinéma. Le Spectaculaire Cinéma University of Rennes Press , Rennes. pp. 141-152. ISBN: 9782753503885
- Bignell, J. (2007) Citing the classics: constructing British television drama history in publishing and pedagogy. In: Wheatley, H. , (eds.) Re-viewing Television History: Critical Issues in Television Historiography. I B Tauris , London. pp. 27-39. ISBN: 9781845111885
- Bignell, J. (2007) The child as addressee, viewer and consumer in mid-1960s 'Doctor Who'. In: Butler, D. , (eds.) Time and Relative Dissertations in Space: Critical Perspectives on Doctor Who. Manchester University Press , Manchester. pp. 43-55. ISBN: 9780719076817
- Bignell, J. (2007) Une lettre en souffrance: l'adaptation de 'La Servante écarlate/The Handmaid's Tale' de Margaret Atwood au cinéma . In: Cloarec, N. , (eds.) Lettres de cinéma: de la missive au film-lettre. University of Rennes Press , Rennes. pp. 175-187. ISBN: 9782753505308
- Bignell, J. (2007) Seeing and knowing: reflexivity and quality. In: Mccabe, J. and Akass, K. , (eds.) Quality TV: contemporary American television and beyond. Reading Contemporary Television I B Tauris , London. pp. 145-157. ISBN: 9781845115104 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9780755696376.ch-012
- Bignell, J. (2007) An introduction to television studies. 2nd edition. Routledge , London, New York. pp 368. ISBN: 9780415419178
- Bignell, J. (2006) Programmes and canons. Critical Studies in Television , 1 (1). pp. 31-36. ISSN: 1749-6020
- Bignell, J. (2005) How to watch television? Pedagogy and paedocracy in Beckett’s television plays. Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui , 15 pp. 281-293. ISSN: 0927-3131 (Historicising Beckett / Issues of Performance)
- Bignell, J. (2005) Space for "quality": negotiating with the Daleks. In: Bignell, J. and Lacey, S. , (eds.) Popular television drama: critical perspectives. Manchester University Press , Manchester. pp. 76-92. ISBN: 9780719069321
- Bignell, J. (2005) From detail to meaning: 'Badlands' (Terence Malick, 1973) and cinematic articulation. In: Gibbs, J. and Pye, D. , (eds.) Style and Meaning: Studies in the Detailed Analysis of Film. Manchester University Press , Manchester. pp. 42-52. ISBN: 9780719065248
- Bignell, J. (2005) And the rest is history: Lew Grade, the creation myth and television historiography. In: Turnock, R. and Johnson, C. , (eds.) ITV Cultures: Independent Television Over Fifty Years. Open University Press , Buckingham. pp. 57-70. ISBN: 9780335217298
- Bignell, J. (2005) Familiar aliens: 'Teletubbies' and postmodern childhood. Screen , 46 (3). pp. 373-388. ISSN: 1460-2474 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/screen/46.3.373
- Bignell, J. (2005) Exemplarity, pedagogy and television history. New Review of Film and Television Studies , 3 (1). pp. 15-32. ISSN: 1740-7923 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17400300500037324
- Bignell, J. and Orlebar, J. (2005) The television handbook. 3rd edition. . Routledge , London and New York. pp 340. ISBN: 9780415342513
- Bignell, J. and Lacey, S. , eds. (2005) Popular television drama: critical perspectives. Manchester University Press , Manchester. pp 240. ISBN: 9780719069321
- Bignell, J. (2005) Big brother: reality TV in the twenty-first century. Palgrave Macmillan , Basingstoke. pp 256. ISBN: 9781403916846
- Bignell, J. (2004) Another time, another space: modernity, subjectivity and the time machine. In: Redmond, S. , (eds.) Liquid Metal: The Science Fiction Reader. Wallflower , London. pp. 136-144. ISBN: 9781903364888
- Bignell, J. (2004) An introduction to television studies. 1st edition.. Routledge , London & New York. ISBN: 415261120
- Bignell, J. and O'Day, A. (2004) Terry Nation. Manchester University Press , Manchester. ISBN: 9780719065460
- Bignell, J. (2003) Where is Action Man's penis? Determinations of gender and the bodies of toys. In: Segal, N. , Taylor, L. , Cook, R. , (eds.) Indeterminate Bodies. Palgrave Macmillan , Basingstoke. pp. 36-47. ISBN: 9780333949696
- Bignell, J. (2003) Sex, confession and witness. In: Akass, K. and Mccabe, J. , (eds.) Reading 'Sex and the City',. I B Tauris , London & New York. pp. 161-176. ISBN: 9781850434238
- Bignell, J. (2002) Writing the child in media theory. The Yearbook of English Studies , 32 pp. 127-139. ISSN: 0306-2473 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3509052
- Bignell, J. (2002) John McGrath and the dialogues of television studies . International Journal of Scottish Theatre , 3 (2). ISSN: 1471-5198
- Bignell, J. , Lacey, S. , MacMurraugh-Kavanagh, M. , eds. (2000) British television drama: past, present and future. 1st edition. Macmillan , Basingstoke. ISBN: 9780333774953
- Bignell, J. (2000) A taste of the gothic: film and television versions of Dracula. In: Sheen, E. and Giddings, R. , (eds.) From Page to Screen: Adaptations of the Classic Novel:. Manchester University Press , Manchester. pp. 114-130. ISBN: 9780719052316
- Bignell, J. (1998) Territories, boundaries, identities: 'The Handmaid's Tale'. In: Howells, C. and Vevaina, C. , (eds.) Margaret Atwood The Shape Shifter. Creative New Literatures Indian Association for Canadian Studies, and Creative Books , New Delhi. pp. 9-25. ISBN: 9788186318515
- Bignell, J. (1996) Method Westerns: The Left-Handed Gun and One Eyed Jacks. In: Cameron, I. and Pye, D. , (eds.) The Movie Book of the Western. Movie Books Studio Vista (Cassell) , London. pp. 99-110. ISBN: 9780289801680
- Bignell, J. (1993) Lost messages: The Handmaid’s Tale, novel and film. British Journal of Canadian Studies , 8 (1). pp. 71-84. ISSN: 1757-8078