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Alex Symons
Alex Symons is Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies at LIM College in New York City. He is the author of ‘Trump and Satire’ in Trump’s Media War (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), Mel Brooks in the Cultural Industries (Edinburgh University Press, 2012), as well as articles in the Journal of Popular Film and Television, Celebrity Studies and the Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance.