RELATIVE AUTONOMY: MEDIA, FILM & POLITICS
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Single-Authored Books
 
Harper, S. (2017) Screening Bosnia: Geopolitics, Gender and Nationalism in Film and Television Representations of the 1992-95 War. London & New York: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN: 978-1623564971
 
Harper, S. (2012) Beyond the Left: The Communist Critique of the Media. Winchester: Zero Books. ISBN: 978-1846949760
 
Harper, S. (2009) Madness, Power and the Media: Class, Gender and Race in Popular Representations of Mental Distress. Basingstoke: Palgrave. ISBN: 978-0230218802

Harper, S. (2003) Insanity, Individuals and Society in Late-Medieval English Literature. New York and Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press. ISBN: 0773467521
 

Edited Collections
 
Franks, B., S. Harper, J. Murray, L. Stevenson, eds. (2006) The Quest for The Wicker Man. Edinburgh: Luath Press. ISBN: 1905222181
 
Franks, B., S. Harper, J. Murray, L. Stevenson, eds. (2005) Constructing the Wicker Man. Dumfries: University of Glasgow, Crichton Publications. ISBN: 0852618182 
 
 
Articles and Book Chapters
 
Harper, S. (2018) Bosnia Beyond Good and Evil: (De)constructing the enemy in Western and post-Yugoslav films about the Bosnian war. Forthcoming in Löschnigg, M. and Sokołowska-Paryż, M. (eds) The Enemy in Contemporary Film. Berlin: De Gruyter.

Harper, S. (2017) High-Flyers, Hooligans and Helpmates: Images of social class in the dramas of Stephen Poliakoff. In Johnson, B. and Forrest, D. (eds) Social Class and Television Drama in Contemporary Britain. (pp.45-59). Basingstoke: Palgrave. ISBN: 9781137555052
 
Garland, C. and S. Harper (2015) Did Somebody Say Neoliberalism? On the uses and limitations of a critical concept in media and communication studies. In Fuchs, C. and Mosco, V. (eds) Marx and the Political Economy of the Mass Media (pp. 219-37). Leiden, NL: Brill. ISBN: 9789004291409
 
Harper, S. (2014) Framing the Philpotts: Anti-welfarism and the British newspaper reporting of the Derby house fire verdict. International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics 10.1: 83-98. ISSN: 17408296
 
Harper, S. (2013) ‘Terrible things happen’: Peter Bowker’s Occupation and the representation of the Iraq War in British television drama. Journal of British Cinema and Television 10.1: 206-23. ISSN: 1743-4521
 
Harper, S. (2012) The Chinese Are Coming!: Representations of Chinese ‘soft power’ in a British television documentary. In Hernandez, L. (ed.), China and the West: Encounters with the Other in Culture, Arts, Politics and Everyday Life (pp. 33-44). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN: 978-1443837804
 
Garland, C. and S. Harper (2012) Did Somebody Say Neoliberalism? On the uses and limitations of a critical concept in media and communication studies. Marx is Back: a special issue of tripleC: Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society, ed. V. Mosco and C. Fuchs, 10.2: 413-24. ISSN: 1726-670X. The volume in which this article appeared was also translated into Chinese by the Liu Dian imprint of the East China Normal University Press.
 
Harper, S. (2012) The Wicker Man. In Bell, E. and Mitchell, N. (eds.), Directory of World Cinema: Britain (pp. 154-6). Bristol: Intellect. ISBN: 9781841505572
 
Harper, S. (2011) ‘History is Screaming At Us’: Humanitarian interventionism and the popular geopolitics of the Bosnian war in Leigh Jackson and Peter Kosminsky’s Warriors. European Journal of Popular Culture 2.1: 43-63. ISSN: 2040-6134
 
Harper, S. (2010) Freaks, Geniuses or ‘Biological Citizens’?: Discourses of mental distress in British television documentary. Jump Cut 52. ISSN: 0146-5546
 
Harper, S. (2008) ‘When You Walk Through These Doors You Can Be Anything You Want’: Authenticity, fantasy and ideology in Hotel Babylon. Journal of British Cinema and Television 5: 113-31. ISSN: 1743-4521
 
Harper, S. (2008) Understanding Mental Distress in Film and Media: a new agenda? Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health 128.2: 170-74. ISSN: 1757-9139
 
Harper, S. (2008) Sharon Foster’s Shoot the Messenger. [Review] Scope, 11. ISSN: 1465-9166
 
Harper, S. (2007) ‘I Could Kiss You, You Bitch’: Gender, sexuality and race in Resident Evil and Resident Evil 2: Apocalypse’. Jump Cut: A review of contemporary media 49. ISSN: 0146-5546
 
Harper, S. (2006) ‘Madly Famous: Narratives of mental illness in celebrity culture’. In Holmes, S. and Redmond, S. (eds.), Framing Celebrity: New Directions in Celebrity Culture (pp. 311-27). London: Routledge. ISBN: 0415377102
 
Franks, B., with S. Hanscombe and S. Harper (2006) Philosophy and the Scottish Liberal Arts Tradition: Creating a critical core. Discourse 6.1: 123-43. ISSN: 0159-6306
 
Harper, S. (2005) Media, Madness and Misrepresentation: critical reflections on anti-stigma discourse. European Journal of Communication 20.4: 460-83. ISSN: 0267-3231
 
Harper, S. (2005) “‘The Other Coppers’: Uncanniness, identity, and the Wicker Man audience”. In Franks, Harper, Murray and Stevenson eds., Constructing The Wicker Man’: Film and Cultural Studies Perspectives (pp.173-87). Dumfries: University of Glasgow, Crichton Publications. ISBN: 0852618182
 
Harper, S. (2005) ‘Night of the Living Dead: Reappraising an Undead Classic’, Bright Lights 50, November. ISSN: 0147-4049
 
Harper, S. (2004) “‘Pleying With A Yerd’: Folly and Madness in the Prologue and Tale of Beryn”, Studies in Philology, 101.3: 298-313. ISSN: 0039-3738
 
Harper, S. (2003) “‘They’re Us’: Representations of Women in George Romero’s ‘Living Dead’ Series”, Intensities: the Journal of Cult Media, 3, Winter. ISSN: 1471-5031
 
Harper, S. (2002) “Zombies, Malls and the “Consumerism Debate”: George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead”, Americana: the Journal of American Popular Culture 1900-Present, 1.2, Autumn. ISSN: 1553-8931
 
Harper, S. (2000) Managing Technostress in UK Libraries: A realistic view. Ariadne, 25, September. ISSN: 1361-3200
 
Harper, S., with R. Newton (1999) Instant Access – or Filter? Public Library Journal: 14, 46-7. ISSN: 0 268-893-X
 
Harper, S (1999) The Summoner’s Jankyn as an Artificial Fool. Notes and Queries, 244.1 [n.s.46], March: 12-14. ISSN: 0029-3970
 
Harper, S. (1997) ‘So euyl to rewlyn’: Madness and authority in The Book of Margery Kempe. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 98: 53-61. ISSN: 0028-3754
 
Harper, S. (1997) ‘By cowntynaunce it is not wist’: Thomas Hoccleve's Complaint and the spectacularity of madness in the Middle Ages. History of Psychiatry, 8: 387-94. ISSN: 0957-154-X

 
Book Reviews

Harper, S. (2012) Review of Robin Nelson’s Stephen Poliakoff on Stage and Screen. Journal of Screenwriting 3.2: 254-56. ISSN: 1759-7137
 
Harper, S. (2012) Why Keynes was Wrong. Review of Terry Eagleton, Why Marx Was Right and Paul Mattick, Business as Usual: The Economic Crisis and the Failure of Capitalism. Radical Philosophy 171: 39-41. ISSN: 0300-211X
 
Harper, S. (2008) All Cats are Grey. Review of John Gray’s Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia. The Hobgoblin: A British Journal of Marxist-Humanism.

Harper, S. (2003) Review of Melvin Stokes and Richard Maltby, eds., Hollywood Spectatorship: Changing Audience Perceptions of Films, Scope, May. 

Harper, S. (2002) Review of Shaun Moores’s Media and Everyday Life Modern Britain, Scope. November.
    
Harper, S. (2000) Review of Margaret Elphinstone’s novel The Sea Road, Scottish Studies Review 1, Winter: 108-9. 

Harper, S. (2000) ‘The Will of It All’. Review of Paul Stump’s Unknown Pleasures: A Cultural Biography of Roxy Music. Spike Magazine, July. 

Harper, S. (2000) ‘Doing Bird’. Review of John Steele’s prison autobiography The Bird That Never Flew. Spike Magazine, January. 


Film Reviews
 

I have also reviewed films and television dramas for the online film journal Scope.
 
 
Keynotes and Invited Talks

 
The Bosnian War on Film: Towards an Unpatriotic Cinema. Invited speaker at London South Bank University, 21 April 2016. 

Screening Bosnia: Geopolitics and Gender in Cinematic Representations of the 1992-95 War. Invited speaker at University of Winchester. 10 February 2016. 

Media Studies Beyond the Left. Invited speaker at University of Westminster, London (CAMRI seminar series). 5 March 2014.

Beyond the Left: Critical Reflections on Media Studies. Invited speaker in Zero Authors lecture series, Taylorian Institute, University of Oxford. 29 May 2012. 

Nick Broomfield’s Ghosts. Screen Grabs: Snatches of Society on the Big Screen (film seminar series). Invited speaker, Faculty of Health and Social Studies, University of Portsmouth. 5 January 2011. 

Britney’s Tears: Abject Femininity in Post-Emotional Society. Keynote speaker at the conference Going Cheap: Female Celebrity in the Tabloid, Reality and Scandal Genres. University of East Anglia, 25 June 2008. 

“The Book of Margery Kempe as Radical Text”. Invited speaker at the Alienation, Exclusion and Dissent roundtable series at the University of Glasgow’s Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. May 1998. 


Other Conference Papers
 
Tell Me Lies About Yugoslavia: Politics and Propaganda in Cinematic Images of the Bosnian War. Creative and Cultural Industries Faculty Research conference, University of Portsmouth, July 2015. 

Something Must Be Done! Interventionism and Anti-Fascism in British Television Representations of the Bosnian War. [Panel: Mediating Nationalism and Fascism in Europe]. Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Montréal, Canada, 25 March 2015. 

Did Somebody Say Neoliberalism? On the uses and limitations of a critical concept in media and communication studies. Marxism Matters, University of Sunderland, UK, 17 April 2012. 

‘History is Screaming at Us’: Bosnia, Iraq and the liberal conscience in Peter Kosminsky’s Warriors and Britz. Delivered at Representing the War on Terror: post 9/11 television drama and documentary, University of Glamorgan, Cardiff. 21 November 2009. 

Freaks, geniuses or ‘biological citizens’?: discourses of mental distress in British television documentary. Delivered at the Mediated Suffering symposium, University of Portsmouth, June, 2009. 

‘Life without dead time’: ‘Romantic capitalism’ in Stephen Poliakoff’s television dramas. Delivered at Popular Culture Association conference, New Orleans, USA, April, 2009. 

Real Crazy Guys: Madness and masculinity in film comedy. Delivered at Men and Madness: Representing Male Psychopathology in Culture, Manchester Metropolitan University, 30 June 2007. 

Mental Illness in Film and Television. Delivered at Film and Media research seminar, University of Portsmouth, June, 2006. 

Madness and Celebrity Culture. University of Glasgow's School of Interdisciplinary Studies, Dumfries, February 2005. 

“‘Ridicule Is Nothing To Be Scared Of’: Narratives of mental illness in celebrity culture”. MeCCSA conference, University of Lincoln, January 2005. 

“Media, Madness and Misrepresentation: critical reflections on anti-stigma discourse”. MeCCSA conference, University of Sussex, Brighton, December 2003. 

‘The Other Coppers’: Uncanniness and identity in The Wicker Man”. Wicker Man Conference, University of Glasgow, Crichton Campus, Dumfries, July 2003. 

“‘Monsters and Mothers’: Representations of women in George Romero’s ‘living dead’ series”. Crossroads: International Cultural Studies Conference, Tampere, Finland, June 2002. 

“What’s Wrong With... Multiculturalism?”. Debate with Alexander Smith, University of Glasgow, Crichton Campus, Dumfries, May 2002. 

“What’s Wrong With... Stereotypes?: Media images of mental distress”. University of Glasgow, Crichton Campus, Dumfries, April 2002. 

“The Media and 9/11”. One-day symposium Is It Just War? at University of Glasgow, Crichton Campus, Dumfries, November 2001. 

“Consumerism and Cultural Studies: The Zombie Metaphor”. Cultural Studies: Between Politics and Ethics, Bath Spa University, July 2001. 

“Consumerism and Cultural Studies: The Zombie Metaphor”. University of Glasgow, Crichton Campus, Dumfries, April 2001. 

‘“So Euyl to Rewlyn”: Madness and authority in The Book of Margery Kempe’. Leeds International Medieval Congress, July 1996. 

‘“By Cowntynaunce it is Not Wist”: Thomas Hoccleve’s Complaint and the subject of madness’. Third conference of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), University of Glasgow, September 1995 and modified for a seminar at the Department of English Language, University of Glasgow, January 1996.
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