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Publications

Members:  
Jim Campbell Dr Dave Mann Dr Nana Osei-Kofi Dr Shawn Sobers
Dr Emma Ferry Dr Anthony McKenna Tricha Passes Dr Andrew Spicer
Jessica Jenkins Dr Jeanette Monaco Dr Angela Partington Dr Sue Tate
Dr Clare Johnson Dr Julia Moszkovich Dr Matthew Partington Dr. Joyce Woolridge

A selection of books, other publications, articles and reviews by members of the
VCRG will be listed here as they become available.

Jim Campbell
come closer : Squidsoup in Space
:Catalogue piece for a multimedia installation called Come Closer for text + work . This essay referenced a number of methodological approaches to visual culture including those of Winnicott, McLuhan, Deleuze and Bachelard.

Published April 2007
ISBN: 978-0-901196-18-7

Original full illustrated catalogue download from text + work


Clare Johnson
Traces of feminist art: Temporal complexity in the work of Eleanor Antin, Vanessa Beecroft and Elizabeth Manchester
Feminist Theory vol. 7(3): 309–331,1464–7001, SAGE Publications
London, Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi, 2006
DOI: 10.1177/1464700106069039
Original Download:
Traces of feminist art


Dr Dave Mann
Britain’s First TV/Film Crime Series and the Industralisation of its Film Industry, 1946-1964,
The Edwin Mellen Press
,
Lampeter, Ceredigion, Wales, Queenston, Ontario, and Lewiston, New York, 2009.

From Minor Misdemeanours to Ill-Gotten Gains: The Emergence of Britain’s First TV/Film Crime Series
The Journal of British Cinema and Television, Volume 5,
May 2008, pp.19-37.

Epicurean Disdain and the Rhetoric of Defiance: Colonel March of Scotland Yard,
Scope
, Issue 11, June 2008.
ISSN 1465-9166


From Obscurity to Authority? The Changing Status of the Screenwriter during the Transition from ‘B’ Features to TV/Film Series (1946–64),
The Journal of British Cinema and Television
, Volume 5,
Nov 2008, pp.280-299.

An Aristocratic Plod, Erstwhile Commandos and Ladies who Craved Excitement: Hammer Films’ Post-War BBC Crime Series and Serial Adaptations
awaiting publication in
Scope.


Dr Jeanette Monaco
Memory work, autoethnography and the construction of a fan-ethnography
in
Participations: International Journal of Audience Research, Vol. 7, Issue 1
May 2010
ISSN 1749-8716
Original Download:
Memory work, autoethnography and the construction of a fan-ethnography



Dr Angela Partington
The Best Bits; non-narrative pleasures and creative practices
The Journal of Media Practice 9:1
Intellect Ltd 2008
Pp9-18
I
SSN 1468-2753

Co-creative Design
Networks of Design by Fiona Hackney, Jonathan Glynne, & Viv Minton (eds.)
Universal, 2009
http://www.universal-publishers.com/book.php?method=ISBN&book=1599429063
ISBN-10: 1599429063
SBN-13: 9781599429069



Dr Andrew Spicer
Historical Dictionary of Film Noir
The
Historical Dictionary of Film Noir is a comprehensive guide that ranges from 1940 to present day neo-noir.
544p pages, Scarecrow Press, May 2010,

ISBN-10: 0810859602
ISBN-13: 978-0-8108-5960-9


The Precariousness of Production: Michael Klinger and the Role of the Film Producer in the British Film Industry during the 1970s
This essay appeared in the collection
British Culture and Society in the 1970s: The Lost Decade;
Cambridge Scholars Press, March 2010

        

Typical Men: The Representation of Masculinity in Popular British Cinema
I.B. Tauris.
Hardcover. 1st printing: April 2001.
ISBN: 1-86064-563-1
paperback edition, July 2003
ISBN 1-86064-931-9.

Masculinity in British Cinema
Kwartalnik Filmowy (Film Quarterly)
Poland Academy of Science.
English translation, Andrew Spicer (2006)
Original Download:
Masculinity in British Cinema

Sydney Box, The Lion That Lost Its Way And Other Cautionary Tales of the Show Business Jungle
edited with an introduction and notes by Andrew Spicer
232 pages, Scarecrow Press, 2005,
ISBN: 0-8108-5677-8

Sydney Box, 'British Film Makers' series
Manchester University Press, 2006
ISBN: 0-7190-5999-2.

Film Noir
Harlow, Longman/Pearson Education, 2002
ISBN: 0-582-43712-1

European Film Noir : Andrew Spicer (ed.)
Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2007
ISBN: 978-0-7190-6791-4

An Ambivalent Archetype: Masculinity, Performance and the New Zealand Films of Bruno Lawrence
Nottingham, Kapako Books, 2000
ISBN: 0 9530177 7 X

Creativity and the “B” Feature: Terence Fisher’s Crime Films
Andrew Spicer in Film Criticism vol. 30 no. 2 Winter 2005-06

The Mark of Cain: Eric Portman and British stardom
Chapter in Tytti Soila (ed.), Stellar Encounters: Stardom in Popular European Cinema
350 Pages, John Libbey & Co Ltd, 2007
ISBN-13: 978-0861966790


Dr Sue Tate
Pauline Boty: The Only Blonde in the World
Sue Watling (now Sue Tate) and David Alan Mellor
51 pages AM Publications, 1998
ISBN-13: 978-0950989624