Publications, Conferences & Other Stuff

Books & Book Chapters:

2022: The Vigilante Thriller: Violence, Spectatorship and Identification in American Cinema, 1970-76. New York: Bloomsbury

2021: ‘Formal Radicalism versus Radical Representation: Reassessing The French Connection (William Friedkin, 1971) and Dirty Harry (Don Siegel, 1971)’ (2021), New Wave, New Hollywood: Reassessment, Recovery, and Legacy. Abrams, N. & Frame, G. (eds.). New York: Bloomsbury Academic.

2018: He Disagreed with Something that Ate Him: Reading The Living Daylights & Licence to Kill

Journal Articles:

March 2020: ‘Identity and Folk Horror in Julian Richards’ Darklands’ in Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural. Issue 5, 74-91.

September 2018: ‘Teeth: A, sort of, Superhero Movie‘. Horror Homeroom [online].

July 2018: ‘God’s Work: Witchfinder General and the Abuse of Power‘. Horror Homeroom [online].

January 2018: ‘Watch it Again! Society (Brian Yuzna, 1989)‘. Bright Lights Film Journal[online].

April 2017: ‘Watch it Again! Joe (Jon G. Avildsen, 1970)‘. Bright Lights Film Journal [online].

March 2017: ‘Superman v Objectivism: Forget Lex Luthor and Brainiac; Could Ayn Rand Be Superman’s Biggest Enemy?’ Bright Lights Film Journal [online].

Conferences:

September 2023: Paul Verhoeven@85, Bangor University. Panel ‘Get Ready for the Ride of Your Life’, Chair Blake Wilson (California State University, Stanislaus).

July 2017: American New Wave: A Retrospective, Bangor University. PANEL A – Revisiting Key Films of the American New Wave I (Roberts Room) (Chair: Matthew Melia).

July 2011: The London Film & Media Conference 2011. PANEL MED41 – Crime Fictions (Cohen, R/Ioannidou/Edwards/Formica), 14 .