All Outputs (14)

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944): Three perspectives on Preston Sturges and the production code (2024)
Journal Article

In this hybrid article, the authors examine Preston Sturges’s ability to outmanoeuvre the Production Code Administration (PCA), specifically in relation to the handling of sex, pregnancy and childbirth in The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek. Our approach i... Read More about The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944): Three perspectives on Preston Sturges and the production code.

“Sacred intimacies”: Sexual ambiguity and performance in My Favorite Wife (1940) (2024)
Journal Article

My Favorite Wife (1940) exemplifies the more “sex suggestive” style of screwball comedy in the late 1930s, posing significant problems for the Production Code Administration (PCA). Strategies for handling taboo content onscreen depended on ambiguity,... Read More about “Sacred intimacies”: Sexual ambiguity and performance in My Favorite Wife (1940).

Genre analysis of movies using a topic model of plot summaries (2021)
Journal Article

Genre plays an important role in the description, navigation, and discovery of movies, but it is rarely studied at large scale using quantitative methods. This allows an analysis of how genre labels are applied, how genres are composed and how these... Read More about Genre analysis of movies using a topic model of plot summaries.

Character and the star vehicle: The impact of casting Cary Grant (2019)
Book Chapter

Star vehicles provide a concrete way of exploring how creative and commercial factors affected the development of screen characters in classical Hollywood cinema. The chapter explores how casting, screenwriting and performance shaped the adaptation o... Read More about Character and the star vehicle: The impact of casting Cary Grant.

Cary Grant: Acting style and genre in classical Hollywood cinema (2012)
Book Chapter

This is part of a larger project on Cary Grant and film acting. This particular essay focuses on the relationships between acting style, genre and star persona, using close textual analysis alongside archival research and industrial contextualisation... Read More about Cary Grant: Acting style and genre in classical Hollywood cinema.

Nancy Meyers and 'popular feminism' (2011)
Book Chapter

Conspicuous consumption: The spectacle of widescreen comedy in the Populuxe era (2010)
Book Chapter

Parallax views: An introduction (2009)
Book Chapter

Introduction to the edited collection, Neo-Noir, exploring issues around noir and genre as well as outlining the aims and content of the book.

Neo-noir (2009)
Book

Wide-ranging collection on Neo-Noir cinema. Combines genre, major conventions (femme fatale, paranoia, anxiety, the city, the threat to the self; and the use of sound and colour) stylistic and textual analysis with Marxist, feminist, psychoanalytic a... Read More about Neo-noir.

The thin men: anorexic subjectivity in Fight Club and The Machinist (2009)
Book Chapter

Considers anorexia as a model of late-capitialist subjectivity through a consideration of the bodies of Brad Pitt and Christian Bale.

Under the neon rainbow: Colour and neo-noir (2009)
Book Chapter

Un/true love: Simulating authenticity in contemporary romantic comedy (2007)
Book Chapter

Hollywood romantic comedy: States of the Union, 1934-65 (2006)
Book

The same, but different: The awful truth about marriage, remarriage and screwball comedy (2001)
Journal Article