All Outputs (45)

Feminine boundaries: Adolesence, witchcraft and the supernatural in new gothic cinema and television (2009)
Book Chapter
Tincknell, E. (2009). Feminine boundaries: Adolesence, witchcraft and the supernatural in new gothic cinema and television. In I. Conrich (Ed.), Horror Zone: The Cultural Experience of Contemporary Horror Cinema. I.B.Tauris, Macmillan

The 'new gothic' film and television text addressed to a largely female audience such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Twilight and True Blood, has become an important genre for the staging and testing out of ideas about adolesent femininity, sexuality... Read More about Feminine boundaries: Adolesence, witchcraft and the supernatural in new gothic cinema and television.

From Bluebeard's bloody chamber to demonic stigmatic (2009)
Book Chapter
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2009). From Bluebeard's bloody chamber to demonic stigmatic. In D. Wallace, & A. Smith (Eds.), The Female Gothic: New Directions (98-114). Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan

Children of the stones: Prehistoric sites in British children’s fantasy, 1965-20 (2009)
Book Chapter
Butler, C. (2009). Children of the stones: Prehistoric sites in British children’s fantasy, 1965-20. In J. Parker (Ed.), Written on Stone: The Cultural Reception of Prehistoric Monuments (143-154). Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press

Metaphor and gender in British parliamentary debates (2009)
Book Chapter
Charteris-Black, J. (2009). Metaphor and gender in British parliamentary debates. In K. Ahrens (Ed.), Politics, Gender and Conceptual Metaphor (139-165). Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan

Parallax views: An introduction (2009)
Book Chapter
Bould, M., Glitre, K., & Tuck, G. (2009). Parallax views: An introduction. In M. Bould, K. Glitre, & G. Tuck (Eds.), Neo-noir (1-10). London: Wallflower Press

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

The thin men: anorexic subjectivity in Fight Club and The Machinist (2009)
Book Chapter
Bould, M., & Vint, S. (2009). The thin men: anorexic subjectivity in Fight Club and The Machinist. In M. Bould, K. Glitre, & G. Tuck (Eds.), Neo-noir (221-239). Wallflower

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

The "postfeminist" biopic: Re-telling the past in The Hours, Sylvia and Iris (2009)
Book Chapter
Dolan, J., Gordon, S., & Tincknell, E. (2009). The "postfeminist" biopic: Re-telling the past in The Hours, Sylvia and Iris. In R. Carroll (Ed.), Textual Infidelities: Adaptations in Print and Visual Cultures. Continuum

This co-authored article about biopics of key women writers of the twentieth century is located in the proliferation of the genre since the 1990s. Analysis of Iris (Richard Eyre, 2001), The Hours (Stephen Daldry, 2002) and Sylvia (Christine Jeffs, 2... Read More about The "postfeminist" biopic: Re-telling the past in The Hours, Sylvia and Iris.

20 million people can't be wrong: Anna Neagle and popular British stardom (2009)
Book Chapter
Dolan, J., & Street, S. (2009). 20 million people can't be wrong: Anna Neagle and popular British stardom. In M. Bell, & M. Williams (Eds.), British Women's Cinema (34-48). Routledge

This is a co-authored article included in a themed collection on British Women’s Cinema that constitutes the most recent contribution to the prestigious Routledge series, British Popular Cinema. It analyses the star persona of Anna Neagle, Britain’s... Read More about 20 million people can't be wrong: Anna Neagle and popular British stardom.

"Who's the Daddy?" The aesthetics and politics of representation in Alfonso Cuaron's adaptation of P.D James's Children of Men (2009)
Book Chapter
Bacon, T., & Dickman, G. (2009). "Who's the Daddy?" The aesthetics and politics of representation in Alfonso Cuaron's adaptation of P.D James's Children of Men. In R. Carroll (Ed.), Adaptation in Contemporary Culture: Textual Infidelities. London: Continuum

Steven Spielberg (2009)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2009). Steven Spielberg. In M. Bould, A. M. Butler, A. Roberts, & S. Vint (Eds.), Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction (200-205). Routledge

Overview of Spielberg’s career and critical analysis of his science fiction films.

Stanley Kubrick (2009)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2009). Stanley Kubrick. In M. Bould, A. M. Butler, A. Roberts, & S. Vint (Eds.), Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction (126-131). Routledge

Overview of Kubrick’s career and critical analysis of his science fiction films.

Fritz Lang (2009)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2009). Fritz Lang. In M. Bould, A. M. Butler, A. Roberts, & S. Vint (Eds.), Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction (131-136). Routledge

Overview of Lang’s career and critical analysis of his science fiction films.

Rough Guide to a Lonely Planet, from Nemo to Neo (2009)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2009). Rough Guide to a Lonely Planet, from Nemo to Neo. In M. Bould, & C. Mieville (Eds.), Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction (1-26). Pluto Press (UK)

This essay argues that sf has long been engaged in mapping - often unconsciously – the processes of globalisation and empire. It illustrates this argument with analyses of Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas and the Wachowski brother... Read More about Rough Guide to a Lonely Planet, from Nemo to Neo.

Addressing regional cultural heritage maintenance using the digital songlines game engine (2009)
Book Chapter
Leavy, B., Wyeld, T. G., & Crogan, P. (2009). Addressing regional cultural heritage maintenance using the digital songlines game engine. In L. Hjorth, & D. Chan (Eds.), Gaming Cultures and Place in Asia-Pacific (107-169). New York: Routledge

An essay exploring the cultural, aesthetic and ethical implications of using a videogame engine in an Aboriginal cultural heritage preservation project.

Introduction to Part One: The late nineteenth century interior (1870-1900) (2009)
Book Chapter
Ferry, E. (2009). Introduction to Part One: The late nineteenth century interior (1870-1900). In P. Sparke, A. Massey, T. Keeble, & B. Martin (Eds.), Designing the Modern Interior: From the Victorians to Today (13-29). Oxford: Berg

An overview of the themes and published sources available for the study of the late-19th century interior and an introduction to three new essays within this book.

Women and Labour politics (2009)
Book Chapter
Hannam, J. (2009). Women and Labour politics. In M. Worley (Ed.), The Foundations of the British Labour Party: Identities, Cultures and Perspectives, 1900-39 (171-191). London: Ashgate

Mary Elizabeth Braddon's secret: An anti-feminist amongst women (2009)
Book Chapter
Mattacks, K. (2009). Mary Elizabeth Braddon's secret: An anti-feminist amongst women. In T. Wagner (Ed.), Antifeminism and the Victorian Novel: Rereading Nineteenth-Century Women Writers. Cambria Press

This reclaims the novelist M.E. Braddon from the claims that her popular brand of 1860s fiction was intended to promote the feminist cause. Rather, by examining archive and textual evidence, Braddon emerges as a complex conservative figure who was de... Read More about Mary Elizabeth Braddon's secret: An anti-feminist amongst women.

The Foreign Office and forced labour in Portuguese West Africa, 1894-1914 (2009)
Book Chapter
Stone, G. (2009). The Foreign Office and forced labour in Portuguese West Africa, 1894-1914. In K. Hamilton, & P. Salmon (Eds.), Slavery, Diplomacy and Empire: Britain and the Suppression of the Slave Trade, 1807-1975 (165-195). Brighton: Sussex Academic Press

Dead penguins in immigrant pilchard scandal: Telling stories about the "environment" in Antarctica (2009)
Book Chapter
Bould, M., & Vint, S. (2009). Dead penguins in immigrant pilchard scandal: Telling stories about the "environment" in Antarctica. In W. J. Burling (Ed.), Kim Stanley Robinson Maps the Unimaginable: Critical essays (257-273). McFarland

Drawing together often antagonistic Marxist and ecological critical-theory, this essay sympathetically critiques Kim Stanley Robinson’s treatment of nature, while calling for a theory and praxis which acknowledges and embraces the non-human in tackli... Read More about Dead penguins in immigrant pilchard scandal: Telling stories about the "environment" in Antarctica.

Italo-German collaboration and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 (2009)
Book Chapter
Stone, G. (2009). Italo-German collaboration and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939. In G. Johnson (Ed.), The International Context of the Spanish Civil War (33-55). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publications