This page collects together links to my work on science fiction.
“Reading Past Reception: A Case Study of the BBC Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954)”, Critical Studies in Television 2021, Edge Hill University (online), UK, 19 July – 6 August 2021. – Read here.
“Breaking the Intimate Screen: Pre-Recording, Special Effects and the Aesthetics of Early British Television”, special issue of Critical Studies in Television ‘Spaces of Television: Production, Site and Style’, 10:3, November 2015, pp.53-66
“Repositioning The Quatermass Experiment (BBC, 1953): Predecessors, Comparisons and Origin Narratives”, Television Drama: the Forgotten, the Lost and the Neglected Conference, Royal Holloway University, UK, 22-24 April 2015 – Read here.
“Before Quatermass: The Neglected Beginnings of British TV SF”, Diversity in Speculative Fiction, LonCon 3 / 72nd World Science Fiction Convention, London, UK, 14-18 August 2014
“Invaders, Launchpads and Hybrids: The Importance of Transmediality in British Science Fiction Film in the 1950s”, Sonja Fritzsche (ed.), The Liverpool Companion to World Science Fiction Film (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2014), pp.89-103 –translated for publication in China
“The Sound of Civilisation: Music in Terry Nation’s Survivors”, Kevin Donnelly and Philip Hayward (eds), Music in Science Fiction Television: Tuned to the Future (London: Routledge, 2013), pp.123-134
“Music, Nation and Civilisation in Terry Nation’s Survivors”, European Popular Culture Conference, London, UK, 11-13 July 2012
“‘Strange Visitor from Another Planet’: Genre, National and Corporate Identity and the Arrival of American Television Science Fiction on British Television”, Networking Knowledge ‘American Telefantasy’ Special Issue, 5: 2, 2012
“Parent Issues: How Life on Mars Negotiates a Television Generation Gap” in Previously on. Interdisciplinary Studies on TV Series in the Third Golden Age of Television Supplement for FRAME magazine, December 2011, pp.671-683
“Genre, Special Effects and Authorship in the Critical Reception of Science Fiction Film and Television during the 1950s”, with Mark Jancovich, in Elizabeth McCarthy and Bernice M. Murphy (eds), It Came from the 1950s: Popular Culture, Popular Anxieties, (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), pp.90-107
“The BBC versus Science Fiction! The collision of transnational genre and national identity in British television in the early 1950s”, in James Leggott and Tobias Hochscherf (eds) British Science Fiction Film and Television: Critical Essays (London: McFarland, 2011), pp.40-49
“The Sound of Civilisation: Music in Terry Nation’s Survivors”, Alien Nation: A Conference on British Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Television, University of Northumbria, UK, 20-21 July 2011
“‘Sadists and Readers of Horror Comics’: The BBC, Nineteen-Eighty-Four and the British Horror Comics Campaign”, Bloodlines: British Horror Past and Present, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, 4-5 March 2010 – Read here.
“Film and Television – the 1950s”, with Mark Jancovich, in Mark Bould, Andrew M.Butler, Adam Roberts and Sherryl Vint (eds) The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction (London: Routledge, 2009) pp.71-79
“Experimental Moments: R.U.R. and the Birth of British Television Science Fiction”, Science Fiction Film and Television, Issue 2.2, 2009, pp.251-268
“Parent Issues: How Life on Mars Negotiates a Television Generation Gap”, What’s Past is Present Study Day, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, 17 February 2009
“The Rise of the Unreal Real: Realism and Science Fiction on British Television 1936-1950”, Film and History Conference, Chicago, USA, 30 October – 2 November 2008
“The Rise of the Unreal Real: Realism and Science Fiction on British Television 1936-1950”, What is Television For? Study Day, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, 27 October 2008
“Life on Mars: Negotiating the Quality Generation Gap”, It Has Happened Before, It Will Happen Again: The Third Generation of Quality Television, Istanbul, Turkey, 8-10 October 2008
“The BBC Versus Science Fiction”, Television Without Borders Conference, Reading, UK, 27-29 June 2008