Professor Will Brooker

Article

Brooker, Will (2021) Filling in the gaps : creative imagination and nostalgia in ZX Spectrum gaming. Participations : Journal of Audience and Reception Studies, 18(2), pp. 3-43. ISSN (online) 1749-8716

Brooker, Will (2016) Alice's evidence : examining the cultural afterlife of Lewis Carroll in 1932. Cultural History, 5(1), pp. 1-25. ISSN (print) 2045-290X

Brooker, Will (2012) Cloaked in shadow: an anti-hero for our times. Film review of: 'The Dark Knight rises' directed by Christopher Nolan. Times Higher Education(2,059), pp. 44-45. ISSN (print) 0049-3929

Brooker, Will (2011) Hero of the beach: Flex Mentallo at the end of the worlds. Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics, 2(1), pp. 25-37. ISSN (print) 2150-4857

Brooker, Will (2010) 'Now you're thinking with portals': media training for a digital environment. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 13(6), pp. 553-573. ISSN (print) 1367-8779

Brooker, Will (2009) All our variant futures: the many narratives of Blade runner: the final cut. Popular Communication, 7(2), pp. 79-91. ISSN (print) 1540-5702

Brooker, Will (2009) Camera-eye, CG-eye: videogames and the 'cinematic'. Cinema Journal, 48(3), pp. 122-128. ISSN (print) 0009-7101

Brooker, Will (2009) Maps of many worlds: remembering computer game fandom in the 1980s. Transformative Works and Cultures, 2, ISSN (online) 1941-2258

Brooker, Will (2005) Book review of 'A short history of cultural studies' by John Hartley. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 8(1), pp. 122-125. ISSN (print) 1367-8779

Brooker, Will (2005) "It is love": the Lewis Carroll Society as fan community. American Behavioral Scientist, 48(7), pp. 859-880. ISSN (print) 0002-7642

Brooker, Will (2004) Book review of 'Matters of gravity: special effects and supermen in the 20th century' by Scott Bukatman. Popular Communication, 2(3), pp. 171-177. ISSN (print) 1540-5702

Brooker, Will [Reviewer] (2003) Film Review of: A galaxy far away, directed by Tariq Jalil. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 14(1), pp. 102-105. ISSN (print) 0897-0521

Brooker, Will (2001) Living on Dawson's Creek: teen viewers, cultural convergence and television overflow. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 4(4), pp. 456-472. ISSN (print) 1367-8779

Brooker, Will (2001) Readings of racism: interpretation, stereotyping and The Phantom Menace. Continuum: journal of media and cultural studies, 15(1), pp. 15-32. ISSN (print) 1030-4312

Brooker, Will (2001) Book review of 'Inside subculture: the postmodern meaning of style' by David Muggleton. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 4(1), pp. 111-127. ISSN (print) 1367-8779

Book

Brooker, Will (2023) Never-ending watchmen : adaptations, sequels, prequels and remixes. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury. 256p. ISBN 9781350198746 (In Press)

Brooker, Will (2022) The truth about Lisa Jewell. London, U.K. : Penguin. 352p. ISBN 9781529136029 (In Press)

Brooker, Will (2019) Why Bowie matters. London : William Collins. 308p. ISBN 9780008313722

Brooker, Will (2017) Forever Stardust : David Bowie across the Universe. London, U.K. : I B Tauris. 256p. ISBN 9781784531423

Pearson, Roberta , Uricchio, William and Brooker, Will, eds. (2015) Many more lives of The Batman. London, U.K. : British Film Institute. 248p. ISBN 9781844577651

Brooker, Will (2012) Hunting the Dark Knight: Batman in Twenty-first Century Popular Culture. London, U.K. : I.B. Tauris. 272p. ISBN 9781848852792

Brooker, Will (2009) Star Wars. Basingstoke, U.K. : Palgrave Macmillan. 96p. (BFI film classics) ISBN 1844572773

Brooker, Will (2004) Alice's adventures: Lewis Carroll in popular culture. New York; London : Continuum. 380p. ISBN 0826414338

Brooker, Will, ed. (2004) The Blade Runner experience: the legacy of a science fiction classic. London, U.K. : Wallflower Press. 250p. ISBN 1904764304

Brooker, Will and Jermyn, Deborah, eds. (2003) The audience studies reader. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. 347p. ISBN 0415254345

Brooker, Will (2002) Using the force: creativity, community and Star Wars fans. New York, U.S. : Continuum. 254p. ISBN 0826452876

Brooker, Will (2001) Batman unmasked: analyzing a cultural icon. London, U.K. : Continuum. ISBN 0826413439

Book Section

Brooker, Will (2023) Mementos of the afternoon : Christopher Nolan's ambiguous debt to Maya Deren. In: Parkinson, Claire and Labrouillère, Isabelle, (eds.) A critical companion to Christopher Nolan. Lanham. U.S. : Lexington Books. pp. 213-228. ISBN 9781793652515

Brooker, Will (2022) 'The world is built on a wall' : deconstructing 'Blade Runner 2049' (2017). In: McSweeney, Terence and Joy, Stuart, (eds.) Contemporary American science fiction film. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. pp. 160-176. ISBN 9781032039640

Brooker, Will (2015) Batgirl : continuity, crisis and feminism. In: Pearson, Roberta , Uricchio, William and Brooker, Will, (eds.) Many more lives of the Batman. London, U.K. : British Film Institute. pp. 134-152. ISBN 9781844577651

Brooker, Will (2015) Building a better kickstarter: crowdfunding my so-called secret identity. In: Bennett, Lucy , Chin, Bertha and Jones, Bethan, (eds.) Crowdfunding the future: media industries, ethics, and digital society. New York, U.S. : Peter Lang. pp. 233-238. (Digital formations, (98)) ISBN 9781433126819

Brooker, Will (2015) Fifth-dimensional Batman : an interview with Grant Morrison. In: Pearson, Roberta , Uricchio, William and Brooker, Will, (eds.) Many more lives of the Batman. London, U.K. : British Film Institute. pp. 43-52. ISBN 9781844577651

Pearson, Roberta, Uricchio, William and Brooker, Will (2015) Introduction : revisiting the Batman. In: Pearson, Roberta , Uricchio, William and Brooker, Will, (eds.) Many more lives of the Batman. London, U.K. : British Film Institute. pp. 1-10. ISBN 9781844577651

Brooker, Will (2015) Time again : the David Bowie chronotope. In: Cinque, Toija , Moore, Christopher and Redmond, Sean, (eds.) Enchanting David Bowie : space time body memory. London, U.K. : Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 87-102. ISBN 9781628923049

Brooker, Will (2014) Going pro: gendered responses to the incorporation of fan labour as user-generated content. In: Mann, Denise, (ed.) Wired TV: laboring over an interactive future. New Brunswick, U.S. : Rutgers University Press. pp. 72-97. ISBN 9780813564548

Brooker, Will (2013) Talking to the TARDIS: Doctor Who, Neil Gaiman and cultural mythology. In: Mellor, David and Hills, Matt, (eds.) New dimensions of ‘Doctor Who’: exploring space, time and television. London, U.K. : I.B.Tauris. (Reading Contemporary Television) ISBN 9781845118662

Brooker, Will (2009) Television out of time: watching cult shows on download. In: Pearson, Roberta, (ed.) Reading Lost: perspectives on a hit television show. London, U.K. : I. B. Tauris. pp. 51-72. ISBN 1845118367

Brooker, Will (2007) A sort of homecoming: fan viewing and symbolic pilgrimage. In: Gray, Jonathan , Sandvoss, Cornel and Harrington, C. Lee, (eds.) Fandom: identities and communities in a mediated world. New York, U.S. : New York University Press. pp. 149-164. ISBN 9780814731826

Brooker, Will (2006) The best Batman story: The dark knight returns. In: McKee, Alan, (ed.) Beautiful things in popular culture. Oxford, UK : Blackwell. pp. 33-48. ISBN 1405131918

Brooker, Will (2004) The Blade Runner experience: pilgrimage and liminal space. In: Brooker, Will, (ed.) The Blade Runner experience: the legacy of a science fiction classic. London, UK : Wallflower Press. pp. 11-30. ISBN 1904764304

Brooker, Will (2004) Introduction: 2019 vision. In: Brooker, Will, (ed.) The Blade Runner experience: the legacy of a science fiction classic. London, UK : Wallflower Press. pp. 1-10. ISBN 1904764304

Brooker, Will (2004) Living on Dawson's Creek: teen viewers, cultural convergence, and television overflow. In: Allen, Robert C. and Hill, Annette, (eds.) The television studies reader. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. pp. 569-580. ISBN 9780415283243

Brooker, Will (2004) New hope: the postmodern project of Star Wars. In: Redmond, Sean, (ed.) Liquid metal: the science fiction film reader. London, U.K. : Wallflower. pp. 298-307. ISBN 1903364876

Brooker, Will (2003) Conclusion: overflow and audience. In: Brooker, Will and Jermyn, Deborah, (eds.) The audience studies reader. Abingdon, UK : Routledge. pp. 322-334. ISBN 0415254345

Brooker, Will (2003) Rescuing Strange days: fan reaction to a critical and commercial failure. In: Jermyn, Deborah and Redmond, Sean, (eds.) The cinema of Kathryn Bigelow: Hollywood transgressor. London, U.K. : Wallflower. pp. 198-219. ISBN 1903364426

Brooker, Will (2002) Book Review of 'Straight reading, resistance, reappropriation, and heterosexuality' by Richard Bradshaw. In: Hague, Angela and Lavery, David, (eds.) Teleparody: predicting/ preventing the tv discourse of tomorrow. London, U.K. : Wallflower. pp. 123-126. ISBN 1903364396

Conference or Workshop Item

Brooker, Will (2015) Time again : narrative, history and identity in the work of David Bowie. In: The Stardom and Celebrity of David Bowie; 17-18 Jul 2015, Melbourne, Australia. (Unpublished)

Moving Image/Broadcast

Brooker, Will and Hughes, Rebecca (2016) Being Bowie. (audiovisual essay).