Outputs (27)

Book review: Chris Pallant and Christopher Holliday (eds.), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: New Perspectives on Production, Reception, Legacy. (2025)
Journal Article
Archer, N. (in press). Book review: Chris Pallant and Christopher Holliday (eds.), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: New Perspectives on Production, Reception, Legacy. Open Screens, 7(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.16995/os.18424

Chris Pallant and Christopher Holliday (eds.), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: New Perspectives on Production, Reception, Legacy. (London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2022), pp. 328, ISBN: 9781501373961, pbk. £28.99.

Sport, Film, and the Modern World (2024)
Book
Archer, N. (2024). Sport, Film, and the Modern World. Peter Lang Verlag. https://doi.org/10.3726/b21640

This book rethinks the discussion of sport as a cinematic subject. Arguing for the vitality of the sports film as distinctively ‘modern’ genre, the book looks at its innovative potential to capture twentieth- and twenty-first-century sport in all its... Read More about Sport, Film, and the Modern World.

Use of the arts in pharmacy education to develop self-perceived empathy (2023)
Journal Article
Allinson, M., Archer, N., Montero-Diaz, F., Jacklin, S., & Thompson, J. (2023). Use of the arts in pharmacy education to develop self-perceived empathy. Pharmacy Education, 23(1), 732-740. https://doi.org/10.46542/pe.2023.231.732740

Background: Demonstrating empathy is a key competency expected of pharmacy undergraduate students. Various art media have been shown to help develop empathy in students. A new optional module designed to incorporate a range of art forms to support em... Read More about Use of the arts in pharmacy education to develop self-perceived empathy.

The Paradox of Steve Coogan: Performing Class in British Film Acting (2023)
Journal Article
Archer, N. (2023). The Paradox of Steve Coogan: Performing Class in British Film Acting. Journal of Film and Video, 75(2), 18-29. https://doi.org/10.5406/19346018.75.2.03

Don’t believe in miracles: the British sports film in the era of sporting rationalization (2022)
Journal Article
Archer, N. (2023). Don’t believe in miracles: the British sports film in the era of sporting rationalization. Sport in Society, 26(8), 1340-1354. https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2022.2130052

The Social Network: Youth Film 2.0 (2022)
Book
Archer, N. The Social Network: Youth Film 2.0. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003161936

Euro 2020: England isn’t an underdog anymore – it’s time for new stories (2021)
Digital Artefact
Archer, N. (2021). Euro 2020: England isn’t an underdog anymore – it’s time for new stories. [Blog Style Article]

But what has Footlights ever done for us? Gender, comedy and the politics of privilege (2021)
Journal Article
Archer, N. (2021). But what has Footlights ever done for us? Gender, comedy and the politics of privilege. Comedy Studies, 12(2), 161-173. https://doi.org/10.1080/2040610x.2021.1951104

Ken Loach and the Comedians: The Politics of ‘Acting’ (2021)
Journal Article
Archer. (2021). Ken Loach and the Comedians: The Politics of ‘Acting’. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 280-302. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2021.0575

This article explores a gap in the scholarship on Ken Loach’s filmmaking, focusing on his casting of comedians in central roles, and the specific impacts of such casting strategies across Loach’s work. While the relevance of such casting to Loach’s p... Read More about Ken Loach and the Comedians: The Politics of ‘Acting’.

French connection UK: the Dinard film festival and the politics of culture (2021)
Journal Article
Archer. (2021). French connection UK: the Dinard film festival and the politics of culture. Studies in European Cinema, 1 - 15. https://doi.org/10.1080/17411548.2021.1886454

This article looks at the thirty-year history of the Dinard Film Festival (until 2018, the Dinard Festival of British Film), with a particular focus on the financial support provided by bodies with industrial and/or cultural remits: specifically, the... Read More about French connection UK: the Dinard film festival and the politics of culture.