Olly Gruner
Olly Gruner
Biography
Olly Gruner is a Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture at the University of Portsmouth. His research has a particular focus on visual histories and representations of the 1960s and 1970s. He is the author of Screening the Sixties: Hollywood Cinema and the Politics of Memory (Palgrave, 2016) and co-editor (with Peter Krämer) of Grease Is the Word: Exploring a Cultural Phenomenon (Anthem, 2019). Olly’s creative history collaborations have appeared, or are forthcoming, in various journals and edited books. He was a contributor, with Louis Netter, to the Corbyn Comic Book (2017). He is currently writing a history of Hollywood screenwriters of the 1960s and 1970s, a project for which he received a Harry Ransom Fellowship from the University of Texas, Austin.
Events
NASA's "Blue Marble" Photograph Fifty Years On

NASA's "Blue Marble" Photograph Fifty Years On

Dec 7, 2022

A series of talks, workshops, performances and artworks devoted to revisiting the impact and legacy ...

The Trinity Test 80 Years On

The Trinity Test 80 Years On

Jul 15, 2025

A series of talks, workshops, artworks and performances exploring the history and ongoing impact of ...