Phillip Drummond teaches film, media and communications on the London programs of NYU, the University of California and the USC Annenberg School. He studied at St. John's College Oxford, where he held an Open Scholarship in English and French, founded the 2,000 member New Cinema Club, and did graduate research in Comparative Literature. He founded and ran the MA in Film and Television Studies at the Institute of Education 1980-2000. He is a past chair of national and international organizations in Media Studies. His book publications include High Noon (1997), Culture, Media and Curriculum (ed; 1995), National Identity and Europe: The TV Revolution, Television and Its Audiences: International Research Perspectives and Television in Transition (all co-ed, 1993, 1988, 1986).