'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).

'The Poets' War Revisited' (2016)
Journal Article
Yearling, R. (2016). 'The Poets' War Revisited'. Ben Jonson Journal, 23(2), 231-245. https://doi.org/10.3366/bjj.2016.0166

This essay seeks to explore the role played by John Marston in the so-called War of the Poets – the literary quarrel between a small group of playwrights, including Marston, Ben Jonson, Thomas Dekker, and perhaps William Shakespeare, in the late sixt... Read More about 'The Poets' War Revisited'.

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

'My thoughts shifted from the past to the future': Time and (autobio)graphic representation in Miné Okubo’s Citizen 13660 (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). 'My thoughts shifted from the past to the future': Time and (autobio)graphic representation in Miné Okubo’s Citizen 13660. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 445-463. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2016.1228268

This article explores time in Miné Okubo’s graphic memoir Citizen 13660. Drawing on the work of Homi Bhabha, and comics scholars like Thierry Groensteen, it argues that Okubo’s complex representation of time serves several functions. First, it underm... Read More about 'My thoughts shifted from the past to the future': Time and (autobio)graphic representation in Miné Okubo’s Citizen 13660.

The commune in exile: urban insurrection and the production of international space (2016)
Book Chapter
(2016). The commune in exile: urban insurrection and the production of international space. In Nineteenth-Century Radical Traditions (113-136). https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59706-9_6

In Chapter 11 of J.-K. Huysmans’s A Rebours (1884; usually translated as Against Nature), Des Esseintes, its reclusive hero, inspired by reading Charles Dickens, leaves home with the intention of visiting London. He never arrives. Instead, he succeed... Read More about The commune in exile: urban insurrection and the production of international space.

Walking studies, the eastern townships, and William S. Messier’s Dixie (2016)
Journal Article
Morgan. (2016). Walking studies, the eastern townships, and William S. Messier’s Dixie. Nottingham French Studies, 224-238. https://doi.org/10.3366/nfs.2016.0150

This article is part of a project entitled, ‘Heartlands/Pays du cœur’. This aims to offer new critical approaches to Québec's ‘regional’ novel; focusing on representations of rural, semi-rural, exurban and urban spaces and places outside of the provi... Read More about Walking studies, the eastern townships, and William S. Messier’s Dixie.

Carnotopia: The Culture of Sadism in Nymphomaniac, Shame, and Thanatomorphose (2016)
Book Chapter
featherstone. (2016). Carnotopia: The Culture of Sadism in Nymphomaniac, Shame, and Thanatomorphose. In Transgression in Anglo-American Cinema: Gender, Sex, and the Deviant Body

Hospitality, Nostalgia, and the Itinerant Hero(ine) in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage and Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End (2016)
Book Chapter
Bowler, R. (2016). Hospitality, Nostalgia, and the Itinerant Hero(ine) in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage and Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End. In Security and Hospitality in Literature and Culture : Modern and Contemporary Perspectives

London's Dispossessed: Questioning the Neo-Victorian Politics of Neoliberal Austerity in Richard Warlow's Ripper Street (2016)
Journal Article
McWilliam. (2016). London's Dispossessed: Questioning the Neo-Victorian Politics of Neoliberal Austerity in Richard Warlow's Ripper Street. Victoriographies, 6(1), 42 - 61. https://doi.org/10.3366/vic.2016.0210

The moral justification for the rollback of benefits and services under the austerity programme unleashed by George Osborne since 2010, when he was first appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer by British Prime Minister David Cameron, is predicated on... Read More about London's Dispossessed: Questioning the Neo-Victorian Politics of Neoliberal Austerity in Richard Warlow's Ripper Street.

The road movie: in search of meaning (2016)
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Archer. (2016). The road movie: in search of meaning