Latest:
‘‘They charge about four shillings a year for the privilege of receiving a photograph and regular printed gossip’: Context, content and form in 1940s British film star fan club publications’
Stars, Fan Magazines and Audiences: Desire by Design (Eds. Tamar Jeffers McDonald, Lies Lanckman, Sarah Polley)
Edinburgh University Press, 2023
ISBN 978 1399505901 (Hardback)
My second essay with Phyll Smith on British Film Star fan Clubs and their Magazines, this follows and compliments a previous publication in Celebrity Studies.
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‘I Just Like to Watch You Guys: How screenings of The Room give people permission to perform’
You Are Tearing Me Apart, Lisa!: The Year’s Work on The Room, the Worst Movie Ever Made (ed. Adam M. Rosen)
Indiana University Press, 2022
ISBN 9780253062727, Paperback
ISBN 9780253062710, Hardback
my chapter on teaching Tommy Wisseau’s The Room
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Esther Williams, Americanness, the aquacade and sex: ‘a swirl of red white and blue flags and chesty swimmers with their chins up’
Sport, Film and National Culture (ed. Seán Crosson)
Routledge (Research in Sport, Culture and Society series), 2020
ISBN 9780367346522
my chapter on Esther Williams
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‘Coming Attractions: Tijuana bibles and the pornographic re-imagination of Hollywood’
Mapping Movie Magazines (eds. Biltereyst and Van de Vijver)
Palgrave / MacMillan (Global Cinema series), 2020
ISBN: 9783030332761
features my chapter with Phyll Smith giving an overview on film stars in pornographic comics of the 1930/40s:
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Spectacular Bodies: The swimsuit, sexuality and Hollywood
Sport’s Relationship with Other leisure Industries (ed. Dion Georgiou and Benjamin Litherland)
Routledge, 2017 ISBN 9781138223424, Hardback
2018, ISBN 9780367109288, Paperback
reprints my essay of the history of Hollywood, Censorship and the Swimsuit originally published in Sport in History
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‘A Travesty on Sex’: Gender and Performance in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes’
Howard Hawks: New Perspectives (ed. Ian Brookes)
Palgrave / BFI, 2016
ISBN: 9781844575411
features my chapter on Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell
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‘A Glimpse Behind the Screen: Tijuana Bibles and the Pornographic Re-Imagining of Hollywood’
Skandal w tekstach kultury
(eds. Ursel, Dąbrowska, Nadolna, Skibińska)
Uniwersytet Wrocławski Academia / Wydawnictwa DiG.; 2013
ISBN: 978-83-7181-759-5 (Hardback)
features my chapter with Phyll Smith on film star scandals in pornographic comics:
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