Lecturer in American Studies, Loughborough University
BA in English (Cambridge); PhD (Cambridge) was on two contemporary American novelists, William Gaddis and Thomas Pynchon. My research and teaching interests include: Hollywood cinema (including the star system); film and globalisation; adaptation studies; African American culture; U.S. literature from the early nineteenth century to the present; and representations of sport in American literature and film
Holly by Stephen King: a timely work of crime fiction about not judging a book but its cover
Oct 06, 2023 07:02 am UTC| Entertainment
At the age of 76, with nearly 70 novels and short story collections behind him, American author Stephen King shows few signs of slowing down. His latest novel Holly, hefty in scale and elaborate in plotting, is the work of...
Shaft: America's race politics from Black Power to Black Lives Matter
Jul 07, 2019 15:06 pm UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment
John Shaft, the African American private eye introduced by Ernest Tidyman in a novel of 1970, has proved surprisingly resilient as a character on the big screen. You might have thought that Samuel L. Jacksons...
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