SELECTED ESSAYS
Some of my essays are paywalled. If you want to read any of them, drop me a line and we'll sort it out xx
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In progress - women working in production roles on Hammer horror films, for Journal of British Cinema and Television (forthcoming)
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When the Woman Writes: Screenwriting, Censorship and Style in Sorry, Wrong Number, Quarterly Review of Film and Video (forthcoming)
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inesgotáveln / inexhaustible, in the book Contemporary Brazilian Horror Film; Neo-Fascism, Disaffection, Resistance (forthcoming)
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Men, Women and Chain Saws and Me, Journal of American Studies (forthcoming)
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The History of Horror Film is a Feminist Audiovisual Archive, [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies (forthcoming)
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Hands on (I can hear someone coming), Monstrum (forthcoming)
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Why His Heart is Broken, A Bittersweet Life Limited Edition Blu–ray, Second Sight Films (2024)
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Screenwriting, Poetics, Horror, Screen (2024)
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The Language of Rage, Teknokultura: Journal of Digital Culture and Social Movements (2024)
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A Terrible Cold-Blooded Murder of an Innocent Woman, In Media Res (2024)
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Feminist Worldmaking and Horror Film, MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture (2024)
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How Not to Reproduce What We Inherit, MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture (2024)
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Last Night was Lucy's Birthday, From the Other Side Exhibition Catalogue, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (2023)
Towards a Feminist Historiography of Horror Cinema, Horror Studies (2022) - Shortlisted for Outstanding Achievement Award 2023, Journal Article of the Year, MECCSA
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Why Audition Endures, Arrow Films (2022)
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Beyond Nasty: Censor's British Origins, Censor Limited Edition Blu–ray, Second Sight Films (2022)
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When the Walls Collapse, Dog Soldiers Limited Edition Blu–Ray, Second Sight Films (2022)
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The Demonic Possession of Dementer, Arrow Films (2022)
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The Hidden Work of Women: Commissioning and Development in British Television Drama, Feminist Media Studies (2022) - Winner of the Outstanding Journal Article of the Year 2022, Screenwriting Research Network
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The Interpretation of Screams: Freud, The Unconscious and the Horror Hotel, Sleep Limited Edition Blu–ray, Arrow Video (2022)
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Blood and Friendship in Bleed with Me, Shudder (2021)
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The Heritage of Horror in A Tale of Two Sisters, Arrow Films (2021)
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17 Horror Films to Watch after Fear Street, Buzzfeed (2021) - then recommended in Shudder's newsletter, The Bite
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The Return of the Daylight Horror Film, Stylist (2021)
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'You Didn't Know I Exist!': The Feminist Possibilities of Mausoleum, Ghouls Magazine (2021)
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Their Wild and Dreadful Rapture, Bloody Women (2021)
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Gender, Genre and Television Screenwriting: The Problem of Pigeonholing, European Journal of Cultural Studies (2021) - Nominated for the Outstanding Journal Article of the Year 2021, Screenwriting Research Network
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Women Make (Write, Produce, Direct, Shoot, Edit and Analyze) Horror in the book Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre (2020)
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The Script, The Séance And The Censor: Writing Night Of The Demon (1957), Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television (2017)
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Dracula on Film, 1931 - 1959 in the book The Cambridge Companion to Dracula (2017)
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How to Write a Horror Film: The Awakening (2011) and Development Practices in the British Film Industry, Film Studies (2016)
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Speaking for Herself: Andrea Dunbar and Bradford on Film, Journal for Cultural Research (2016)
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‘A Revolutionary Voice’: Analysing Maxine Peake’s Northern Stardom in Silk and Room at the Top, Journal of Popular Television (2016)
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The Feminine Appeal of British Horror Cinema, New Review of Film and Television Studies (2015) - Selected for the Fall 2022 Editor's Picks, New Review of Film and Television Studies Blog
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Creepy Liver-Eating Fox Ladies: The Thousand Year Old Fox and Korea’s Gumiho in the book Korean Horror Cinema (2013)
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Gothic Vancouver: Blood Ties and Vampire Television, Gothic Studies (2012)
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Ocularcentrism, Horror and the Lord of the Rings Films, Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance (2012)
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Tracing Tradition in Korean Horror Film, Asian Cinema (2011)
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Horrible Women: Abjection, Gender and Ageing in Nip/Tuck in the book Nip/Tuck: Television That Gets Under Your Skin (2011)
A Broken Tradition: British Telefantasy and Children's Television in the 1980s and 1990s, Visual Culture in Britain (2010)
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In a Lonely Place? Dexter and Film Noir in the book Dexter: Investigating Cutting Edge Television (2010)
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On Supernatural in the book The Essential Cult TV Reader (2010)
Destroying the Male Body in British Horror Cinema in the book Mysterious Skin: Male Bodies in Contemporary Cinema (2009)
Dexter and Film Noir: Lila the Femme Fatale, In Media Res (2009)
The Impossibility of Vision: Vampirism, Formlessness and Horror in Vampyr, Studies in European Cinema (2009)
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Bauhaus of Horrors: Edgar G. Ulmer and The Black Cat in the book Edgar G. Ulmer: Detour on Poverty Row (2008)
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Uncanny Cylons: Resurrection and Bodies of Horror in the book Cylons in America: Critical Studies in Battlestar Galactica (2008)
Postfeminism Without Limits? Charmed, Horror and Sartorial Style in the book Investigating Charmed: The Magic Power of TV (2007)
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