Research output

Research output per year 1998 2003 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2012 2013 2020

• 55 Chapter
• 22 Article
• 5 Book
• 3 Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
• 2 More
  • 1 Foreword/postscript
  • 1 Special issue

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2020

  Welcome to the “Second-stage” Lynchverse: Twin Peaks: The Return and the Impossibility of Return Vs. Getting a Return

  Hills, M., 09 Oct 2020, Exploring Imaginary Worlds: Essays on Media, Structure, and Subcreation. Wolf, M. J. P. (ed.). Taylor & Francis, p. 191-205 15 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Trust 100%
  • Reality 50%
  • Houses 50%
  • Urban Areas 50%
  • Older Adults 50%
• 2015

  Cult cinema and the ‘mainstreaming’ discourse of technological change: revisiting subcultural capital in liquid modernity

  Hills, M., 2015, In: New Review of Film and Television Studies. 13, 1, p. 100-121

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Cults 100%
  • Cinema 66%
  • Inclusive Education 50%
  • Work 33%
  • Resistance 16%

• Rebranding Doctor Who and reimagining Sherlock: ‘Quality’ television as ‘makeover TV drama’

  Hills, M., May 2015, In: Cultural Studies. 18, 3, p. 317-331

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • TV 100%
  • Quality 85%
  • makeover 85%
  • Entertainment 57%
  • TV drama 57%

• The expertise of digital fandom as a ‘community of practice’: Exploring the narrative universe of Doctor Who

  Hills, M., Aug 2015, In: Convergence. 21, 3, p. 360-374

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Fandom 100%
  • National Cultures 66%
  • Communities-Of-Practice 66%
  • Specific Industry 66%
  • Logic 66%
• 2013

  BBC Wales' Torchwood as TV I, II and III: Changes in Television Horror

  Hills, M., 04 Dec 2013, In: Cinephile: The University of British Columbia's Film Journal. 6, 2, p. 23-29 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Cult TV Remakes: The Prisoner Miniseries as Neo-cult

  Hills, M., 16 Sept 2013, How to Watch Television. Thompson, E. & Mittell, J. (eds.). New York: New York University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• From Chris Chibnall to Fox: Torchwood's Marginalized Authors and Counter-Discourses of TV Authorship

  Hills, M., 09 Apr 2013, A Companion to Media Authorship. Gray, J. & Johnson, D. (eds.). 1 ed. Wiley, p. 200-220 21 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• From Fan Tourists to Fan Residents: Revisiting Cardiff's Cult Geography

  Hills, M., 30 Sept 2013, New Dimensions of Doctor Who: Adventures in Space, Time and Television: Exploring Space, Time and Television . Hills, M. (ed.). London and New York: I.B. Tauris, (Reading Contemporary Television).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Hyping Who and Marketing the Moffat Era: The Role of “Prior Paratexts”

  Hills, M., 30 Sept 2013, Eleventh Hour: Critical Approaches to the Steven Moffat and Matt Smith Era of Doctor Who. O'Day, A. (ed.). London and New York: I.B. Tauris

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Media Users: An Introduction

  Hills, M., 28 Feb 2013, Little Madnesses: Winnicott, Transitional Phenomena, & Cultural Experience. Kuhn, A. (ed.). London and New York: I.B. Tauris, p. 79-86 (International Library of Cultural Studies).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Recorded Transitional Objects and Fan Re-readings of Puzzle Films

  Hills, M., 28 Feb 2013, Little Madnesses: Winnicott, Transitional Phenomena & Cultural Experience . Kuhn, A. (ed.). London and New York: I.B. Tauris, (International Library of Cultural Studies).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Transmedia Torchwood: Investigating a Television Spin-off's Tie-in Novels and Audio Adventures

  Hills, M., 30 Sept 2013, Torchwood Declassified: Investigating Mainstream Cult Television. Williams, R. (ed.). I.B. Tauris

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Whatever Happened to the Time Lord? Mythology and Fandom in Neil Gaiman's Contributions to Unfolding Texts

  Hills, M., 02 Apr 2013, The Mythological Dimensions of Neil Gaiman. Burdge, A. S., Burke, J. J. & Larson, K. (eds.). 1st ed. CreateSpace.com, p. 64-80 17 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• ”Twilight” Fans Represented in Commercial Paratexts and Inter-Fandoms: Resisting and Repurposing Negative Fan Stereotypes

  Hills, M., 28 May 2013, Genre, Reception, and Adaptation in the 'Twilight' Series. Morey, A. (ed.). Aldershot: Taylor & Francis, (Ashgate Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• 2012

  Blade Runner

  Hills, M., 17 Jan 2012, Columbia University Press. 128 p. (Cultographies)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Cult 100%
  • Blade Runner 100%
  • Cults 100%
  • Text 25%
  • Artificiality 25%

• Cult movies with and without cult stars: Differentiating discourses of stardom

  Hills, M., 06 Nov 2012, Cult Film Stardom: Offbeat Attractions and Processes of Cultification. Egan, K. & Thomas, S. (eds.). Basingstoke: Springer Nature, p. 21-36 16 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Cutting into Concepts of "Reflectionist" Cinema? The Saw Franchise and Puzzles of Post-9/11 Horror

  Hills, M., 10 Dec 2012, Horror After 9/11: World of Fear, Cinema of Terror . Briefel, A. & Miller, S. J. (eds.). Austin: University of Texas Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Psychoanalysis and digital fandom: Theorizing spoilers and fans’ self-narratives

  Hills, M., 03 Aug 2012, Produsing Theory in a Digital World: The Intersection of Audiences and Production in Contemporary Theory. Lind, R. A. (ed.). 1 ed. Peter Lang, (Digital Formations).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Sherlock's Epistemological Economy and the Value of “Fan” Knowledge: How Producer-Fans Play the (Great) Game of Fandom

  Hills, M., 15 May 2012, Sherlock and Transmedia Fandom: Essays on the BBC Series. Stein, L. E. & Busse, K. (eds.). McFarland & Company

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• The Medium is the Monster... or the World? Discourses of Uncanny “Old Media” and Immersive “New Media” in Life on Mars

  Hills, M., 15 May 2012, Life on Mars: From Manchester To New York. Lacey, S. & McElroy, R. (eds.). Cardiff: Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru | University of Wales Press, (Contemporary Landmark Television).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• “Proper distance” in the ethical positioning of scholar-fandoms: Between academics' and fans' moral economies?

  Hills, M., 01 Jun 2012, Fan Culture: Theory/Practice. Larsen, K. & Zubernis, L. (eds.). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, p. 14-37 23 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• 2011

  'Doctor Who' and 'Torchwood'

  Hills, M., 25 Mar 2011, The Essential Cult TV Reader. Lavery, D. (ed.). Kansas: University Press of Kansas, (Essential Readers in Contemporary Media and Culture).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Listening from behind the sofa? The (un)earthly roles of sound in BBC Wales' Doctor Who

  Hills, M., 01 Mar 2011, In: New Review of Film and Television Studies. 9, 1, p. 28-41 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Acoustics 100%
  • Science 54%
  • Otherness 27%
  • UK 18%
  • Serials 18%

• Television Aesthetics: A Pre-structuralist Danger?

  Hills, M. J., 2011, In: Journal of British Cinema and Television. 8, 1, p. 99-117

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 2010

  Afterword: Scholar-Fandom's Different Incarnations

  Hills, M., 01 May 2010, Impossible Worlds, Impossible Things: Cultural Perspectives on Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures. Garner, R. P., Beattie, M. & McCormack, U. (eds.). Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript

• Making Sense of M. Night Shyamalan: Signs of a Popular Auteur in the “Field of Horror”

  Hills, M., 15 Aug 2010, Critical Approaches to the Films of M. Night Shyamalan: Spoiler warnings. Weinstock, J. A. (ed.). London: Springer Nature, p. 103-118

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• 'Subcultural Celebrity' and 'Mainstream Cult'

  Hills, M., Jun 2010, The Cult TV Book: From Star Trek to Dexter, New Approaches to TV Outside the Box. Abbott, S. (ed.). I.B. Tauris

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Triumph of a Time Lord: Regenerating Doctor Who in the Twenty-First Century

  Hills, M., 15 Feb 2010, I.B. Tauris. 261 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• When Television Doesn't Overflow 'Beyond the Box': The Invisibility of 'Momentary' Fandom

  Hills, M. J., 2010, In: Critical Studies in Television. 5, 1, p. 97-110 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • TV 100%
  • Fandom 100%
  • Analysis 50%
  • Academy 25%
  • Practice 25%

• “Mythology Makes You Feel Something”: The Russell T. Davies Era as Sentimental Journey

  Hills, M., 01 May 2010, The Mythological Dimensions of Doctor Who. Burdge, A., Burke, J. & Larsen, K. (eds.). 1st ed. Crawfordville: Kitsune Books

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• 2009

  Absent, Epic, Implied Story Arcs, and Variation on a Narrative Theme: Doctor Who (2005-2008) as Cult/Mainstream Television

  Hills, M., 17 Apr 2009, Third Person: Authoring and Exploring Vast Narratives. Harrigan, P. & Wardrip-fruin, N. (eds.). Boston: MIT Press, p. 333-342 9 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Attending horror film festivals and conventions; Liveness, subcultural capital and “flesh-and-blood genre communities”

  Hills, M., 12 Nov 2009, Horror Zone: The Cultural Experience of Contemporary Horror Cinema. Conrich, I. (ed.). London and New York: I.B. Tauris, p. 87-102 17 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Doing Things with Theory: From Freud’s Worst Nightmare to (Disciplinary) Dreams of Horror’s Cultural Value

  Hills, M., 29 Jan 2009, Psychoanalysis and the Horror Film: Freud’s Worst Nightmares. Schneider, S. J. (ed.). Cambridge University Press, p. 205-221

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• From BBC radio personality to online audience personae: the relevance of fan studies to Terry Wogan and the TOGs

  Hills, M., 01 Dec 2009, In: Radio Journal. 7, 1, p. 67-88 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Convergence 100%
  • Work 100%
  • Personality 100%
  • Fandom 100%
  • Resistance 50%

• Singularity or Multiplicity in Explanations of Cult Media: Toward “Residual” and “Emergent” Cults

  Hills, M., 2009, Cult and Community. Rautavuoma, V. & Haaverin, E. (eds.). Finland: University of Jyväskylä Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• 2008

  Fan Cultures: Between 'Fantasy' and 'Reality'

  Hills, M., 28 Mar 2008, Cultural Studies: An Anthology. Ryan, M. (ed.). 1st ed. Wiley, p. 1140-1165

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Media Fandom, Neo-Religiosity and Cult(ural) Studies

  Hills, M., 2008, The Cult Film Reader. Mathijs, E. & Mendik, X. (eds.). Reprint ed. Maidenhead: Open University Press, p. 133-148

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Participatory Culture: Mobility, interactivity and identity

  Hills, M., 01 Dec 2008, Digital Cultures: Understanding New Media. Creeber, G. & Martin, R. (eds.). Maidenhead: Open University Press, p. 107-121

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Restricted confessions? Blogging, subcultural celebrity and the management of producer-fan proximity

  Chin, B. & Hills, M., 01 Jun 2008, In: Social Semiotics. 18, 2, p. 253-272 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Celebrity 100%
  • Blogs 100%
  • Professional Personnel 75%
  • Producer 50%
  • TV 50%

• The dispersible television text: theorising moments of the new Doctor Who

  Hills, M., Apr 2008, In: Science Fiction Film and Television. 1, 1, p. 25-44 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Text 100%
  • Meaning 66%
  • TV 66%
  • Specific Industry 66%
  • Reading 66%

• The Question of Genre in Cult Film and Fandom: Between Contract and Discourse

  Hills, M., 16 Apr 2008, The SAGE Handbook of Film Studies. Donald, J. & Renov, M. (eds.). London: SAGE Publishing, p. 436-453

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• 2007

  FROM THE BOX IN THE CORNER TO THE BOX SET ON THE SHELF: 'TVIII' and the cultural/textual valorisations of DVD

  Hills, M., 01 Apr 2007, In: New Review of Film and Television Studies. 5, 1, p. 41-60 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • TV 100%
  • Optical Discs 80%
  • Films 20%
  • London 20%
  • Work 20%

• Investigating CSI Television Fandom and Fans: Textual Paths through the Franchise

  Hills, M. & Luther, A., 30 Jun 2007, Reading CSI: Television Under the Microscope. Michael, A. (ed.). London: I.B. Tauris, p. 208-221 (Reading Contemporary Television).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Les Diaboliques

  Hills, M., 21 May 2007, 100 European Horror Films. Schneider, S. J. (ed.). BFI Publishing, (BFI Screen Guides).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Media academics as media audiences

  Hills, M., 01 Jun 2007, Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World. Gray, J., Sandvoss, C. & Lee Harrington, C. (eds.). New York: New York University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Michael Jackson Fans on Trial? "Documenting" Emotivism and Fandom in Wacko About Jacko

  Hills, M., 01 Dec 2007, In: Social Semiotics. 17, 4, p. 459-477 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Michael Jackson 100%
  • Documentary 80%
  • Fandom 80%
  • Media 60%
  • Representation 40%

• Para-Paracinema: The Friday the 13th Film Series as Other to Trash and Legitimate Film Cultures

  Hills, M., 11 Dec 2007, Sleaze Artists: Cinema at the Margins of Taste, Style and Politics. Sconce, J. (ed.). Durham and London: Duke University Press, p. 219-239

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Televisuality without television? The Big Finish audios and discourses of ‘tele-centric’ Doctor Who’

  Hills, M., 2007, Time and Relative Dissertations in Space: Critical Perspectives on Doctor Who. Butler, D. (ed.). Manchester : Manchester University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Tesis

  Hills, M., 21 May 2007, 100 European Horror Films. Schneider, S. J. (ed.). London: BFI Publishing, (BFI Screen Guides).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• ‘Gothic’ Body Parts in a ‘Postmodern’ Body of Work? The Hinchcliffe/Holmes Era of Doctor Who (1975-77)

  Hills, M., 2007, In: Intensities: The Journal of Cult Media. 4

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review