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The Crash Controversy: Censorship Campaigns and Film Reception

Harindranath, Ramaswami; Barker, Martin; Arthurs, Jane (Wallflower Press, 2001)

Between 1996–97 an almost unprecedented campaign was mounted in the British press against on one film: David Cronenberg’s Crash. What motivated this campaign? What can it tell us about British film culture? What impact did ...
The decline of public service broadcasting in the UK 1979-2000

O'Malley, Thomas (Longman, 2001-04)
Kicked into the Gutters: or, 'My Dad doesn't read comics, he studies them'

Barker, Martin (2002)

I never dreamed that I would become a comics researcher. Just about everything about me indicated against it. I didn't much read comics as a child (the odd solace of comics on holiday, plus a period of secret fascination ...
The Film Society and the Creation of an Alternative Film Culture in Britain in the 1920's

Sexton, Jamie (University of Exeter Press, 2002)
Crashing Out

Barker, Martin (2002)

It is now four years since the considerable crisis that pervaded British cinema politics finally juddered to a halt as David Cronenberg's Crash (1996) was released at last to the screens, uncut as an '18'. The controversy ...
Media History and Media Studies: aspects of the development of the study of media history in the UK 1945-2000

O'Malley, Thomas (2002)
Pink Worlds and Blue Worlds: A Portrait of Intimate Polarity

Griffiths, Merris (Leicester University Press, 2002)

In the UK, concern over the 'dumbing down' of children's programmes has met with defensive responses from television producers. In the US, after much lobbying, legislation designed to ensure compulsory inclusion of ...
Assessing the ‘Quality’ in Qualitative Research The Case of Text–Audience Relations

Barker, Martin (2003)

A number of recent works on methodology for media and communication studies have sought to embrace the contributions from cultural studies qualitative investigations, in particular for their contribution to our understanding ...
Folklore Studies and Popular Film and Television: A Necessary Critical Survey

Koven, Mikel (2003)

The study of folklore and popular film and television, although frequently ignored by folkloristics and film scholars alike, has produced a number of articles and paradigms which not only inform its own study, but also ...
Televérité Hits Britain: Documentary, Drama and the Growth of 16mm Filmmaking in British Television

Sexton, Jamie (2003)
CRASH, Theatre, Audiences, and the Idea of 'Liveness'

Barker, Martin (2003-03)

In 1996 David Cronenberg’s film of J.G. Ballard’s Crash led to a huge controversy in Britain, much of which turned on claims of what the film might do to its audience, claims which were the subject of a major ESRC-funded ...
The Terror Tale: Urban Legends and the Slasher Film

Koven, Mikel (Unknown Publisher, 2003-05)
Who is the fairest of them all? Gendered Readings of Big Brother UK

Chandler, Daniel; Griffiths, Merris (Wallflower Press, 2004)
Violence Redux

Barker, Martin (Manchester University Press, 2004)

New Hollywood Violenceis a groundbreaking collection of essays devoted to an interrogation of various aspects, dimensions, and depictions of violence in New Hollywood filmmaking. 'New Hollywood' refers to the return to ...
Children drawing toy commercials: re-imagining television production features

Griffiths, Merris (2005)

Using a selection of toy commercials that were designed and drawn (as part of a small-scale research study) by a sample of primary school children between the ages of 7 and 11 years, this article aims to demonstrate and ...
Understanding Vernacular Experiences of Film in an Academic Environment

Barker, Martin; Mathijs, Ernest (2005)

It is widely recognized that students' vernacular engagements with a subject such as films can interfere with their willingness to make them an object of academic study. This essay reports the findings of a small action ...
A Cult Film by Proxy: Space is the Place and the Sun Ra Mythos

Sexton, Jamie (2006)

This paper examines the film Space is the Place, a 1974 science-fiction film starring jazz maverick Sun Ra. I determine why the film has attained cult status, and demonstrate how an understanding of Sun Ra's particular ...
Menstrual Monsters: The reception of the Ginger Snaps cult horror franchise

Barker, Martin (2006)

How quick can a scary movie establish a devoted fan following that turns a desired cinematic object into a contemporary cult classic? Pretty quickly, judging by the reception trajectory of Ginger Snaps. Less than five years ...
La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Itallian Giallo Film

Koven, Mikel (Scarecrow Press, 2006)
I have seen the Future and it is not here yet... : Or, on being Ambitious for Audience Research

Barker, Martin (2006)

Audience research, after a promising period during which some crucial advances were made, seems to be in decline in several ways, yet its tasks remain as important as ever. This article, originally a presentation at the ...

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