Nick Rees-Roberts

Nick Rees-Roberts (born 1975) is a British-born author and French academic. He is Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University Paris, France.

His research focuses on forms of visual representation in contemporary media culture and the creative industries, in particular fashion and film.

His monographs to date, ''French Queer Cinema'', ''Fashion Film'' and ''Failure'', all map new fields of critical inquiry. ''French Queer Cinema'' offered a comprehensive overview of LGBT and New Queer Cinema in France and was described as a "highly rewarding study that conveys genuine optimism about the current and future state of French gay/queer film. ''Fashion Film'' was praised for being "intellectually rigorous", "extremely intelligent, well researched and beautifully written". In ''Failure'' Rees-Roberts describes how fashion thrives on fame and success, capitalism and culture. The book argues that beneath the luster and hype, fashion is also inevitably about failure – an essential part of its history and evolution. Positing failure as a speculative way to rethink fashion, the author explores how forms of commercial failure within a capitalist framework might actually be productive. Provided by Wikipedia