Literature Review

I thought it may be of interest to someone out there if I posted my bibliography on here. This is not meant to be the definitive word on the topic under investigation, but I hope it's fairly thorough.


Bibliography

Barker, M. and Brooks, K. 1998, Knowing Audiences: Judge Dredd: Its Fans, Friends and Foes, Luton, University of Luton Press

Bayman, L. and Rigoletto, S. eds. 2013, Popular Italian Cinema, 2013, Chippenham, Palgrave Macmillan

Benzel, T. 2012, Muchas Gracias Seňor Lobo: Paul Naschy Memorabilia, Birkenfeld, Kessler & Benzel GbR

Bergfelder, T. 2005, International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s, Oxford, Berghan Books

Branaghan, S. edited by Chibnall, S. 2006, British Film Posters: An Illustrated History, Cambridge, BFI/ Cambridge University Press

Chapman, J., Glancy, M. and Harper, S. 2007, The New Film History: Sources, Methods, Approaches, 2007, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan

Chibnall, S. and McFarlane, B. 2009, The British 'B' Film, Camberley, BFI/ Palgrave Macmillan

Chibnall, S. 2013, 'Rome, Open for British Production: The Lost World of 'Britalian' films, 1946-1954', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 33:2, 234-269

Creepy Images [journal] available through: www.creepy-images.com 

Davies, R. R. 2011, Kiss Kiss Kill Kill: The Graphic Art and Forgotten Spy Films of Cold War Europe, St Albans, Picture and Sound Ltd

Devraj, R. Duncan, P. ed. 2010, The Art of Bollywood, Hong Kong, Taschen

Dougall, A. consultant ed. Gassner, D. 2012, James Bond: 50 Years of Movie Posters, London, Dorling Kindersley

Dyer, G. 1982, Advertising as Communication, London, Routledge

Eley, G. 2005, A Crooked Line: From Cultural History to The History of Society, London, The University of Michigan Press

Garret S. Balazs, A. ed. 1996, Hollywood Handbook, New York, Universe Publishing

Grant, K. 2011, Any Gun Can Play: The Essential Guide to Euro-Westerns, Godalming, FAB Press

Hall, S. and Neale, S. 2010, Epics, Spectacles and Blockbusters: A Hollywood History, Michigan, Wayne State University Press

Hamilton, J. 2005, Beasts in the Cellar: The Exploitation Film Career of Tony Tenser, Godalming, FAB Press

Hanson, S. 2007, From Silent Screen to Multi-Screen: A History of Cinema Exhibition in Britain Since 1896, Manchester, Manchester University Press

Hantke, S. ed. 2004, Horror Film: Creating and Marketing Fear, Mississippi, University Press of Mississippi

Hawkins, J. 2000, Cutting Edge: Art Horror and the Avante-garde, Minnesota, The University of Minnesota Press

Hearn, M. 2010, The Art of Hammer, China, Titan Books

Hughes, H. 2004, Once Upon a Time in the Italian West, Padstow, I.B. Taurus

Hunter, I. Q. 2013, British Trash Cinema, Basingstoke, BFI/ Palgrave Macmillan

Jackson, N. 2012, 'Stained With the Blood of the Marketing Department', paper given at Cine Excess, London

Lamberti, E. ed. 2012, Behind the Scenes at the BBFC: Film Classification from the Silver Screen to the Digital Age, London, BFI/ Palgrave Macmillan

Murphy, R. ed. 1997, The British Cinema Book, 1st edition, London, BFI

Nava, M. 2007, Visceral Cosmopolitanism: Gender Culture and the Normalisation of Difference, 1st edition, London, Bloomsbury/ Berg Publishers

Nowell-Smith, G. and Ricci, S. eds. 1998, Hollywood and Europe: Economics, Culture and National Identity 1945-95 , London, BFI

Sarowitz, Sam, 2008, Translating Hollywood: The World of Movie Posters, New York, Mark Batty Publisher

Schaefer, E. 1999, "Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!" A History of Exploitation Films, 1919-1959, Durham, Duke University Press

Shipka, D. 2011, Perverse Titillation: The Exploitation Cinema of Italy, Spain and France, 1960-1980, North Carolina, McFarland

Smith, A. 2012, 'Cowboys and Cannibals: an interview with Ruggero Deodato', Diabolique, Issue no. 8, Jan/ Feb 2012

Spicer, A. and McKenna, A.T. 2013, The Man Who Got Carter: Michael Klinger, Independent Production and the British Film Industry, 1960-1980, London, IB Taurus

Trevelyan, J. 1973, What the Censor Saw, Slough, Michael Joseph Ltd

Waller, G. A. 2002, Moviegoing in America, Oxford, Blackwell Publishers

The ongoing saga of the literature review

I have to get this finished by tomorrow. I'm already overdue, and it has to be done so I can have a viva. I'm drowning in books and words and none of it makes sense any more. I've become slightly more knowledgeable in the process, but it's killing me. I love reading, but the writing, not so much. This is not an attitude that is conducive to academia, but there you are.

I've particularly enjoyed becoming more acquainted with the Eurospy film, partly thanks to the Kiss Kiss Kill Kill archive.

Anyway, I've still got a few hundred words to go and I'm about to slam my head repeatedly against the desk. I'll be back when I'm done.

The story so far (in brief)

I was lucky enough to receive a full bursary from Brunel University last year to do a PhD. This was awesome because there was no way I could ever afford to do one on my own. The downside was that I'm supposed to be doing it full time, but the funding only covers the fees. And I am not exactly well off. So the result of this is that I'm working four days a week teaching media to college students who couldn't care less, whilst trying to do my PhD work at home and on the bus. Not exactly ideal, but until anything better comes along, it's kind of working.

I got to know Brunel uni through the Cine Excess festival. I gave two papers, one in 2010 and one in 2011. You can find one of them on my old blog here. My other paper was on the sexploitation films of Norman J. Warren, and I'm very slowly working on a book about him. But that's another story.

As a result of those papers I was invited to give a lecture on the Brunel Cult Film MA back in November 2011 on British sleaze of the seventies. It was so nice to do that, after spending most of my teaching time working with sixteen-year olds with attitudes.

So I like to think that doing that lecture helped them to remember me when I applied for the PhD just a few months later. And here I am, nearly a year in. I've mostly been reading and figuring out what I'm going to do. I have to submit my first 10,000 word chapter by the end of next month. 

At some point I'll do a post on how Bonditis inspired the direction I'm going in. For now, here's a poster.

A poster and a brief introduction

I had to create a poster to illustrate my research intentions for a conference at Brunel back in April. I thought I would share it here, as it summarises my research fairly well. Hopefully. That was the point after all.

I realised once I had printed it on to A3 that the text at the bottom was too small, and I'd wasted a lot of space up at the top. At the conference I was put between posters about research in The Oman and Saudi Arabia, and I felt a touch self-conscious about my choice of central image. It's taken from publicity material for a German Bond-spoof called Bonditis. I will probably post about that film here at some point soon.

So here's the poster. If you click on the link you can view it bigger on Flickr so you can zoom in on the tiny text.

Click here to see the larger version