All Outputs (13)

Sarah Godfrey, masculinity in British cinema, 1990–2010 (2023)
Journal Article

Although much comment is passed about male characters and identities in discussions of British cinema, systematic studies of masculinity are extremely rare. To my knowledge, Sarah Godfrey’s is the first to appear since my own Typical Men: The Represe... Read More about Sarah Godfrey, masculinity in British cinema, 1990–2010.

Cinema and soft power: Configuring the national and transnational in geo-politics (2023)
Journal Article

As the contributors to this valuable collection all attest, the concept of ‘soft power’ can be traced to the political scientist Joseph Nye, who, after an initial attempt in 1990, published Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics (2004). N... Read More about Cinema and soft power: Configuring the national and transnational in geo-politics.

Combined blogs (2022)
Preprint / Working Paper

These four blogs/working papers constitute one of the outputs from a research project that explores the ways in which Channel 4's relocation out of London in 2017-18 constitues a significant event for the brodcaster - the 'largest shake-up in its his... Read More about Combined blogs.

‘4 All the UK’: The policies and politics of relocation (2022)
Journal Article

This article discusses the cultural, social and political reasons why Channel 4 moved out of London in 2017-18 and the context of the move with the threat of privatisation by the government. It places Channel 4's relocation as part of a much longer h... Read More about ‘4 All the UK’: The policies and politics of relocation.

Channel 4 at 40: The TV revolution (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This is the full text of my opening introduction to a public-facing event at the Arnolfini Gallery on 3 December 2022 entitled 'Channel 4 at 40: The TV Revoution in Bristol'.
In this overview I provide the social, political, cultural and historical... Read More about Channel 4 at 40: The TV revolution.

Exploring stardom: Sean Connery (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Sean Connery was one of a select few stars who have become an instantly recognisable cultural icon whose image and distinctive voice have penetrated deeply into global popular culture and public consciousness.

Best known as the screen’s ‘first’ Ja... Read More about Exploring stardom: Sean Connery.

Sean Connery: Acting, Stardom and National Identity (2022)
Book

This study provides an authoritative and comprehensive account of the career of one of one modern cinema’s most distinctive stars, an instantly recognisable cultural icon whose image and distinctive voice have penetrated deeply into global popular cu... Read More about Sean Connery: Acting, Stardom and National Identity.

GO WEST! 2 Bristol's Film and Television Industries (2022)
Report

This report updates and substantially extends the 2017 report, Go West! Bristol's Film and Television Industries. It revises all the statistical information, including the number of companies. The report analyses the major changes that have occurred... Read More about GO WEST! 2 Bristol's Film and Television Industries.

Bond and stardom (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Bond has become a modern and enduring folk hero and cultural icon, which has profound implications for the six actors who have played the role. In examining this, somewhat neglected, facet of that phenomenon – Bond and stardom – I argue that playing... Read More about Bond and stardom.

Writing film industry history (2021)
Book Chapter

This chapter provides a critical overview of the main ways in which film industry history has been formulated and described. It argues that any account must address three basic questions: (i) how film industry history has been defined and delimited (... Read More about Writing film industry history.

Making it real: A policy programme for UK documentary film (2021)
Report

This report outlines a new policy programme for the UK documentary film sector. Based on the extensive consultation that followed our previous report, Keeping It Real: Towards a Documentary Film Policy for the UK (2020) – itself based on the largest... Read More about Making it real: A policy programme for UK documentary film.

Keeping it real: Towards a documentary film policy for the UK (2020)
Report

This report presents the findings of a survey of UK feature documentary producers and directors that was conducted in the summer of 2019 under the auspices of the ‘UK Feature Docs’ research project, an AHRC-funded study of the UK’s feature-length doc... Read More about Keeping it real: Towards a documentary film policy for the UK.

Public service broadcasters as place-makers and the politics of relocation
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This keynote discusses the place-making role of the UK's Public Service Broadcasters (PSBs). It argues that although PSBs are committed, by statute, to representing the diverse cultures of the UK's nations (Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales) and i... Read More about Public service broadcasters as place-makers and the politics of relocation.