Outputs (24)

Laughing matters : understanding comedy in film, television and radio (2012)
Book
White, G., & Mundy, J. (2012). Laughing matters : understanding comedy in film, television and radio. Manchester University Press

Although comedy is an important aspect of contemporary culture and a significant presence in film, television and radio, there is a surprising shortage of academic writing about comedy and the media. Laughing Matters: Understanding Comedy in Film, Te... Read More about Laughing matters : understanding comedy in film, television and radio.

The reader and the page : textual gaps, textual arrangements and images in prose fiction (2012)
Thesis
Barton, S. The reader and the page : textual gaps, textual arrangements and images in prose fiction. (Thesis). University of Salford

This thesis is a reader-focused analysis of unconventional graphic devices that appear on
the pages of graphically innovative prose fictions. The main aim is to provide a study of
the implications that unconventional and graphically disruptive page... Read More about The reader and the page : textual gaps, textual arrangements and images in prose fiction.

Quentin Tarantino (2011)
Book Chapter
White, G. (2011). Quentin Tarantino. In Y. Tasker (Ed.), Fifty Contemporary Film Directors (392-399). Abingdon: Routledge

Fifty Contemporary Film Directors examines the work of some of today’s most popular and influential cinematic figures. It provides an accessible overview of each director’s contribution to cinema, incorporating a discussion of their career, major wor... Read More about Quentin Tarantino.

Reading the graphic surface of Mark Z. Danielewski's The Fifty Year Sword (2011)
Book Chapter
White, G. (2011). Reading the graphic surface of Mark Z. Danielewski's The Fifty Year Sword. In Mark Z. Danielewski (105-120). Manchester: Manchester University Press

Mark Z. Danielewski’s The Fifty Year Sword is , described on the author’s website as ‘an illustrated short story,’ but it is entirely in keeping with major works (House of Leaves, Only Revolutions) in the way that it thoroughly problematises its narr... Read More about Reading the graphic surface of Mark Z. Danielewski's The Fifty Year Sword.

Re-reading B.S. Johnson (2007)
Book
White, G., & Tew, P. (2007). Re-reading B.S. Johnson. London: Palgrave Macmillan

Re-reading B.S. Johnson (2007)
Book
White, G., & Tew, P. (2007). Re-reading B.S. Johnson. London: Palgrave Macmillan

Reading the graphic surface: the presence of the book in prose fiction (2006)
Book
White, G. (2006). Reading the graphic surface: the presence of the book in prose fiction. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press

This book critically engages with the visual appearance of prose fiction where it is manipulated by authors, from alterations in typography to the deconstruction of the physical form of the book. It reappraises the range of effects it is possible to... Read More about Reading the graphic surface: the presence of the book in prose fiction.

Reading the graphic surface: the presence of the book in prose fiction (2006)
Book
White, G. (2006). Reading the graphic surface: the presence of the book in prose fiction. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press

This book critically engages with the visual appearance of prose fiction where it is manipulated by authors, from alterations in typography to the deconstruction of the physical form of the book. It reappraises the range of effects it is possible to... Read More about Reading the graphic surface: the presence of the book in prose fiction.

Reading the graphic surface : the presence of the book in prose fiction (2005)
Book
White, G. (2005). Reading the graphic surface : the presence of the book in prose fiction. Manchester: Manchester University Press

This book critically engages with the visual appearance of prose fiction where it is manipulated by authors, from alterations in typography to the deconstruction of the physical form of the book. It reappraises the range of effects it is possible to... Read More about Reading the graphic surface : the presence of the book in prose fiction.

You are here: reading and representation in Christine Brooke-Rose's Thru (2002)
Journal Article
White, G. (2002). You are here: reading and representation in Christine Brooke-Rose's Thru. https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-23-4-611

Christine Brooke-Rose's Thru is a strikingly provocative postmodernist text. Instead of examining how Thru deconstructs fiction through the literary and linguistic theory that it includes, this essay looks at how theory—specifically Roman Jakobson's... Read More about You are here: reading and representation in Christine Brooke-Rose's Thru.