Neil Archer is Lecturer in Film Studies at Keele University, UK. He is the author of Beyond a Joke: Parody in English Film and Television Comedy (I.B. Tauris, 2017); The Road Movie: In Search of Meaning (2016); Hot Fuzz (2015); The French Road Movie: Space, Mobility, Identity (2013); The Bourne Ultimatum (2012) and Adaptation: Studies in French and Francophone Culture, co-edited with Andreea Weisl-Shaw (2011).