Sarita Malik

Sarita’s research is focused on the politics of media communication, representation and institutional frameworks. This has primarily been based around minority ethnic communities in Britain within the context of media history and social change. Sarita sits on the editorial board of the journal of South Asian Popular Culture. She has been Chair of the MeCCSA Race Network since February 2009.

Sarita blogs on The Guardian’s Comment is Free (http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/saritaMALIK) and has contributed to a range of print and web publications including The Guardian, Catalyst, Arts Professional, Sight and Sound, BFI InView and screenonline. Media appearances have included Channel 4, BBC2, Sky Television and Russia Today. Sarita’s PhD was supervised by Professor Stuart Hall and conducted at the British Film Institute in London. This was titled ‘Representing Black Britain: the history of black and Asian representation on British television from 1936 to the present day’ and was awarded by the Open University.

Research Interests

Media communication, race and representation, media genres, cultural diversity and public service broadcasting, Diasporic media practice.

Publications

Journal Papers

(2010) Malik, S., From multicultural programming to diasporic television: situating the UK in a European context, Media History 16 (1) : 123- 128

(2009) Malik, S., Filmmaker Asif Kapadia, interviewed by Sarita Malik, South Asian Popular Culture 7 (1) : 73- 84

(2009) Malik, S., Introduction to the cinema issue, South Asian Popular Culture 7 (1) : 1- 5

(2009) Malik, S., Doing multicultural London: the case of 'King of the Ghetto', Journal of British Cinema and Television 6 (2) : 232- 248

(2009) Malik, S., Reflecting on 'classic television'; in debate: making and remaking television classics, Critical Studies in Television 4 (2) : 113- 114

(2008) Malik, S., 'Keeping it real': the politics of Channel 4's multiculturalism, mainstreaming and mandates, Screen 49 (3) : 343- 353 Download publication

(2007) MALIK, S., The Industrial Context of Migrant and Diasporic Cinema in Contemporary Europe’, Journal of Media Practice, 8 (2-3)

(2002) Malik, S., Money, Macpherson and mind-set: The competing cultural and commercial demands on black and Asian British films in the 1990s, Journal of Popular British Cinema 5 90- 103

Book Chapters

(Accepted) Malik, S., Hideously white?. In: Petley, J. and Williams, G. eds. The Media in Contemporary Britain. Palgrave (Forthcoming)

(2011) Malik, S., Mainstreaming Cultural Diversity: Public Service Policy and British Reality Television. In: Cere, R. and Brunt, R. eds. Postcolonial Media in Britain. Palgrave Macmillan 41- 55

(2010) Malik, S., The dark side of hybridity: contemporary black and Asian British cinema. In: Berghahn, D. and Sternberg, C. eds. European Cinema in Motion: Migrant and Diasporic Film in Contemporary Europe. Palgrave Macmillan Limited 132- 151

(2010) Malik, S., How Little Britain does ‘race’. In: Lockyer, S. ed. Reading Little Britain:Comedy Matters on Contemporary Television. London : IB Tauris Publishers 75- 94

(2009) Malik, S., Race and ethnicity. In: Albertazzi, D. and Cobley, P. eds. The Media: An Introduction. Pearson 444- 456

(2004) Malik, S., Racial coding. In: Cashmore, E. ed. Encyclopaedia of race and ethnic studies. London: Routledge 341- 345

(2002) Malik, S., The construction of black and Asian ethnicities in British film and television. In: Briggs, A. and Cobley, P. eds. The media: an introduction. Harlow: Longman 357- 368

Books

(2002) Malik, S., Representing black Britain: Black and Asian images on Television. Sage Publications Ltd