James Rose - Publications CV


A specialist in horror and science fiction film and television, James Rose has written critical texts for a range of national and international publications. His first book, Beyond Hammer: British Horror Cinema since 1970 was published in May 2009 and his second, Studying The Devil’s Backbone in December 2009. He is currently working on his third, a book-length study of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which is due for publication early 2012. He regularly writes for Electric Sheep, Splice, MediaMagazine and Vertigo.


FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
The Devil's Advocate Series, Auteur Publishing, Mid 2012. ISBN to be assigned
FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS: COLLECTED ESSAYS
British Horror Cinema
Directory of World Cinema: Great Britain, Intellect Publishing, August 2012. ISBN to be assigned
AUTHORED BOOKS
Beyond Hammer: British Horror Cinema since 1970
Auteur, May 2009. ISBN: 978-1-903663-97-4
Studying The Devil's Backbone
Auteur, December 2009. ISBN: 978-1-906733-09-4
CHAPTERS IN EDITED COLLECTIONS
Terror on the Underground
World Film Locations: London, Intellect Publishing, September 2011. ISBN: 978-1841504841
A Good Man Dreadfully Punished: Frank Darabont’s The Mist
The End: An Electric Sheep Anthology, Strange Attractor Press, May 2011. ISBN: 978-1907222023
Conflict, Hybridity and Forgiveness: The Daleks of the Russell T. Davies Era of Doctor Who (The Unsilent Library: Adventures in New Doctor Who, The Science Fiction Foundation, March 2011. ISBN: 978-0-903007-08-5)
Skins of Metal: The Uncanny in the Russell T. Davies Era of Doctor Who (Ruminations, Peregrinations and Regenerations: A Critical Approach to Doctor Who, Baylor University, June 2010. ISBN: 978-14438208447)
SELECTED ESSAYS AND ARTICLES
Quid Pro Quo: Visiting Doctor Lector
MediaMagazine, April 2011. ISSN: 1478-8616
A Very British Doctor: Doctor Who and British Culture
MediaMagazine, February 2011. ISSN: 1478-8616
Splintered: An Interview with Simeon Halligan
Scream, October 2010. ISSN 2045-2128
3:10 to Yuma: Western Myth, Historical Truth
Splice, Issue 3, Volume 4, Summer 2010. ISSN 1751-7516
Misfits
MediaMagazine, April 2010. ISSN: 1478-8616
Reading the Apocalypse: The End of the World in British Television
MediaMagazine, February 2010. ISSN: 1478-8616
Is it real? The Mockumentary Horror Film
MediaMagazine, December 2009. ISSN: 1478-8616
The Law of the Gun: The Vigilante in US Cinema
Electric Sheep, Winter 2009. ISSN 1755-649X
Vincent and Victor: The Short Films of Tim Burton
Splice, Number 1, Volume 4, Winter 2009. ISSN 1751-7516
Alone with the Devil: Requiem and The Exorcism of Emily Rose
Electric Sheep, Autumn 2009. ISSN 1755-649X
Being Human
Media Magazine, September 2009. ISSN: 1478-8616
I Robot. I Revolt.
Electric Sheep, Summer 2009. ISSN 1755-649X
Terror in the Land: Landscape and Horror Film
Splice, Number 2, Volume 3, Spring 2009, ISSN 1751-7516
Dead Set
Media Magazine, Issue 29, April 2009. ISSN: 1478-8616
It will be over by Dawn: 30 Days of Night
Media Magazine, Issue 27, February 2009. ISSN: 1478-8616
Reading the Darkness: The Documentary Films of Richard Stanley
Vertigo, Number 1, Volume 4, Winter 2008. ISSN 0968-7904
Can you see? Minority Report and Science Fiction Noir
Splice, Number 1, Volume 3, Winter 2008. ISSN 1751-7516
Loving Jack: Torchwood and Popular Audiences
Media Magazine, Issue 25, September 2008. ISSN: 1478-8616
Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Splice, Number 3, Volume 2, Summer 2008. ISSN 1751-7516
To See, if only Once: The Brothers Quay
Vertigo, Number 8, Volume 3, Spring 2008. ISSN 0968-7904
A Death in the Family: Reading The Descent
Splice, Number 1, Volume 2, Autumn 2007. ISSN 1751-7516
Turning to Dust: The Gothic Cinema of Philip Ridley
Vertigo, Number 6, Volume 3, Summer 2007. ISSN 0968-7904
The Quatermass Xperiment
Rue Morgue, July 2007. ISSN 1481-1103
SELECTED ONLINE JOURNALS
Walking with the Dead: An Interview with Marc Price
Offscreen, Issue 6, Volume 15, June 2011. ISSN 1712-9559
Between the Dust and the Devil: An Interview with Richard Stanley
The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies, December 2009. ISSN 2009-0374
The Good Son: John Hillcoat’s The Proposition
Offscreen, Issue 4: The Western Genre, Volume 12, April 2008. ISSN 1712-9559
There’s Nothing Out There: The Landscape in Greg McLean’s Wolf Creek
Scope, June 2007, ISSN 1465-9166
The Dreaming and the Dreamt: a Lexicon of Neil Jordan’s The Company of Wolves
The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies, March 2007. ISSN 2009-0374
It is Violence that Undoes the Man: Representations of the Modern Male in Alexandre Aja’s The Hills Have Eyes
OffScreen, Issue 10: Scanning the Horror Genre, Volume 10. October 2006. ISSN 1712-9559
The Light and the Darkness: Myth in the Films of Richard Stanley
Senses of Cinema, July – September 2004, Issue 32. ISSN 1443-4059