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

Studying Hot Fuzz (2016)
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Archer. (2016). Studying Hot Fuzz

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

A Novel Experience in Crime Narrative: Watching and Reading The Killing (2014)
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Archer. (2014). A Novel Experience in Crime Narrative: Watching and Reading The Killing. Adaptation, https://doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apu008

This essay will consider the adaptation of series one of the Danish television serial Forbrydelsen / The Killing (2007) into David Hewson’s novel The Killing (2012). Considering the television show through theoretical paradigms of contemporary long-f... Read More about A Novel Experience in Crime Narrative: Watching and Reading The Killing.