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Tragic blondes, Hollywood, and the “radical sixties’ myth: Seberg and once upon a time in Hollywood as revisionist and reparative biopic (2022)
Journal Article
Tincknell, E. (2023). Tragic blondes, Hollywood, and the “radical sixties’ myth: Seberg and once upon a time in Hollywood as revisionist and reparative biopic. Celebrity Studies, 14(4), 568-583. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2022.2149346

In this essay I explore two recent ‘reparative biopics,’ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino, 2019) and Seberg (Benedict Andrews, 2019), which share features found in the resurgent cycle of 1960s-set ‘back studio’ films that have appeare... Read More about Tragic blondes, Hollywood, and the “radical sixties’ myth: Seberg and once upon a time in Hollywood as revisionist and reparative biopic.

Unpiecing the jigsaw: Compulsive heterosexuality, sex crime, class and masculinity in early 1960s British cinema (2021)
Journal Article
Tincknell, E. (2021). Unpiecing the jigsaw: Compulsive heterosexuality, sex crime, class and masculinity in early 1960s British cinema. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 18(2), 131-151. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2021.0563

This article explores the discursive intersections of masculinity, class and heterosexual desire in the still undervalued British police procedural film, Jigsaw. It considers the film both as an example of a new style of cinematic crime narrative and... Read More about Unpiecing the jigsaw: Compulsive heterosexuality, sex crime, class and masculinity in early 1960s British cinema.