All Outputs (28)

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.

UEFA at the movies: producing space in the 21st century football film (2020)
Journal Article
Archer. (2020). UEFA at the movies: producing space in the 21st century football film. Sport in Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2020.1825381

Abstract This article focuses on the Goal! series of films (2005-2008), with a particular focus on the first two instalments arguing for the role they perform in football’s shaping of space and identity in the early twenty-first century. Focussing es... Read More about UEFA at the movies: producing space in the 21st century football film.

Cinema and Brexit The Politics of Popular English Film (2020)
Book
Archer, N. (2020). Cinema and Brexit The Politics of Popular English Film. (1)

Science Fiction Cinema and the Road Movie: Case Studies in the Estranged Mobile Gaze (2019)
Book Chapter
Archer, N. (2019). Science Fiction Cinema and the Road Movie: Case Studies in the Estranged Mobile Gaze. In Mobilities, Literature, Culture (281-306). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27072-8_12

Twenty-First-Century Hollywood: Rebooting the System (2019)
Book
Archer, N. (2019). Twenty-First-Century Hollywood: Rebooting the System. Columbia University Press. https://doi.org/10.7312/arch19159

Transnational Science Fiction at the End of the World: Consensus, Conflict and the Politics of Climate Change (2019)
Journal Article
Archer. (2019). Transnational Science Fiction at the End of the World: Consensus, Conflict and the Politics of Climate Change. Cinema Journal, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2019.0020

This article considers the significance of transnational production, aesthetic, and narrative strategies in recent forms of "apocalyptic" science fiction cinema. As the article explores, a more transnational mode of science fiction offers the opportu... Read More about Transnational Science Fiction at the End of the World: Consensus, Conflict and the Politics of Climate Change.

Gone Girl (2012/14) and the Use(s) of Culture (2017)
Journal Article
Archer. (2017). Gone Girl (2012/14) and the Use(s) of Culture

Looking comparatively and respectively at the two recent iterations of Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn’s 2012 novel, and the David Fincher-directed film from 2014 – this essay focuses on the texts’ specific concerns with cultural use, within a mass-media a... Read More about Gone Girl (2012/14) and the Use(s) of Culture.

Genre on the Road: The Road Movie as Automobilities Research (2017)
Journal Article
Archer. (2017). Genre on the Road: The Road Movie as Automobilities Research. Mobilities, 509-519. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2017.1330988

This article argues for the use of film studies in the study of mobilities, with a specific focus on the analysis of genre, and the particularly fictional character of genre film. The article focuses on genre’s emerging and shifting forms across temp... Read More about Genre on the Road: The Road Movie as Automobilities Research.

'Speeds of Sound: On Fast Talking in Slow Movies' (2016)
Journal Article
Archer. (2016). 'Speeds of Sound: On Fast Talking in Slow Movies'. Cinema Journal, 55(2), 130-135

In an essay published in 2008, Matthew Flanagan put forward his argument for what he called an “aesthetic of slow” in contemporary film.1 Partly a series of observations on tendencies in world cinemas, partly a manifesto for a specific form of counte... Read More about 'Speeds of Sound: On Fast Talking in Slow Movies'.

Fan du Cinéma: Imitation, Europe and The Trip to Italy (2014) (2016)
Journal Article
Archer. (2016). Fan du Cinéma: Imitation, Europe and The Trip to Italy (2014). Studies in European Cinema, 246-259. https://doi.org/10.1080/17411548.2016.1249228

his essay considers the role of imitation in Michael Winterbottom’s film The Trip to Italy, with reference to the performances of mimicry by its two protagonists (Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon), but also on the part of the film itself, both as a sequel... Read More about Fan du Cinéma: Imitation, Europe and The Trip to Italy (2014).

Beyond a Joke: Parody in English Film and Television Comedy (2016)
Book
Archer. (2016). Beyond a Joke: Parody in English Film and Television Comedy