Desires for reality : radicalism and revolution in Western European film (2016)
Book
Halligan, B. (2016). Desires for reality : radicalism and revolution in Western European film. New York and London: Berghahn Books

Desires for Reality: Radicalism and Revolution in Western European Film addresses a provocative and controversial period of European cinema: the high-tide of dissenting and militant film-making, of 1968, and its aftermath. This study offers an immers... Read More about Desires for reality : radicalism and revolution in Western European film.

Intimate live girls (2015)
Book Chapter
Halligan, B. (2015). Intimate live girls. In B. Halligan, N. Spelman, R. Edgar, & K. Fairclough-Isaacs (Eds.), The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic

The arena concert requires a particular type of liveness of performance in order to transcend impersonal mass entertainment. Liveness here looks to authenticity and happenstance, privileges personal communications and seeks to live in the moment, and... Read More about Intimate live girls.

Beyoncé’s celebrity feminism and performances of female empowerment in the arena concert (2015)
Book Chapter
Fairclough, K. (2015). Beyoncé’s celebrity feminism and performances of female empowerment in the arena concert. In B. Halligan, K. Fairclough, R. Edgar, & N. Spelman (Eds.), The Arena Concert : Music, Media and Mass Entertainment. London: Bloombsury

Through her live arena performances, pop/R and B artist Beyoncé Knowles appears to promote a shiny, depthless feminism that mass audiences can embrace. This chapter will provide a critical analysis of her 2013-2014 arena concert tour, The Mrs Carter... Read More about Beyoncé’s celebrity feminism and performances of female empowerment in the arena concert.

“Use/abuse/everyone/everything” : a dialogue on LA Plays Itself (2015)
Journal Article
Halligan, B., & Wilson, L. (2015). “Use/abuse/everyone/everything” : a dialogue on LA Plays Itself. https://doi.org/10.13110/framework.56.2.0299

Abstract: This critical dialogue addresses the pioneering queer pornographic film LA Plays Itself from a variety of vantage points. The dialogue initially considers the film in relation to comparable works of pornography around the era of the Summer... Read More about “Use/abuse/everyone/everything” : a dialogue on LA Plays Itself.

From countercultures to suburban cultures : Frank Zappa after 1968 (2014)
Book Chapter
Halligan, B. (2014). From countercultures to suburban cultures : Frank Zappa after 1968. In S. Whiteley, & J. Sklower (Eds.), Countercultures and Popular Music (187-202). Abingdon, UK: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315574479

Publisher's description of book: ’Counterculture’ emerged as a term in the late 1960s and has been re-deployed in more recent decades in relation to other forms of cultural and socio-political phenomena. This volume provides an essential new academ... Read More about From countercultures to suburban cultures : Frank Zappa after 1968.

"({})": Raunch culture, third wave feminism and the vagina monologues (2014)
Journal Article
Halligan, B. (2014). "({})": Raunch culture, third wave feminism and the vagina monologues. Theory and Event, 17(1), https://doi.org/10.1353/tae.2014.0007

Shoegaze as the third wave : affective psychedelic noise, c. 1965-1991 (2013)
Book Chapter
Halligan, B. (2013). Shoegaze as the third wave : affective psychedelic noise, c. 1965-1991. In M. Goddard, B. Halligan, & N. Spelman (Eds.), Resonances : Noise and Contemporary Music. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic

Publisher's description of book: Resonances is a compelling collection of new essays by scholars, writers and musicians, all seeking to explore and enlighten this field of study. Noise seems to stand for a lack of aesthetic grace, to alienate or d... Read More about Shoegaze as the third wave : affective psychedelic noise, c. 1965-1991.

The music documentary : acid rock to electropop (2013)
Book
(2013). B. Halligan, R. Edgar, & K. Fairclough-Isaacs (Eds.), The music documentary : acid rock to electropop. US and UK: Routledge

The Music Documentary offers a wide-range of approaches, across key moments in the history of popular music, in order to define and interrogate this prominent genre of film-making. The writers in this volume argue persuasively that the music document... Read More about The music documentary : acid rock to electropop.

The nostalgic mode of imperial legitimation: Silencing the subjects for the television coverage of royal events (2013)
Book Chapter
Silencing the subjects for the television coverage of royal events. In J. Labov, H. Hajrudin, & H. Popovic (Eds.), Alternatives in Culture: Critical Theory and Divergent Practices in Contemporary Society. TBA. Manuscript submitted for publication

Resonances : noise and contemporary music (2013)
Book
(2013). M. Goddard, B. Halligan, & N. Spelman (Eds.), Resonances : noise and contemporary music. New York and London: Continuum / Bloomsbury

Noise seems to stand for a lack of aesthetic grace, to alienate or distract rather than enrapture. And yet the drones of psychedelia, the racket of garage rock and punk, the thudding of rave, the feedback of shoegaze and post-rock, the bombast of thr... Read More about Resonances : noise and contemporary music.

Reverberations: The philosophy, aesthetics and politics of noise (2012)
Book
(2012). B. Halligan, M. Goddard, & P. Hegarty (Eds.), Reverberations: The philosophy, aesthetics and politics of noise. London and New York: Continuum

Noise permeates our highly mediated and globalised cultures. Noise as art, music, cultural or digital practice is a way of intervening so that it can be harnessed for an aesthetic expression not caught within mainstream styles or distribution. Thi... Read More about Reverberations: The philosophy, aesthetics and politics of noise.

‘As if from the sky’: Divine and secular dramaturgies of noise (2012)
Book Chapter
Halligan, B. (2012). ‘As if from the sky’: Divine and secular dramaturgies of noise. In B. Halligan, M. Goddard, & N. Spelman (Eds.), Reverberations: The philosophy, aesthetics and politics of noise. London and New York: Continuum/Bloomsbury

Noise permeates our highly mediated and globalised cultures. Noise as art, music, cultural or digital practice is a way of intervening so that it can be harnessed for an aesthetic expression not caught within mainstream styles or distribution.This wi... Read More about ‘As if from the sky’: Divine and secular dramaturgies of noise.

Nostalgia (2011)
Book Chapter
Halligan, B. (2011). Nostalgia. In D. Southerton (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture. Sage

Metrosexual (2011)
Book Chapter
Halligan, B. (2011). Metrosexual. In D. Southerton (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture. Sage

Post-Fordism (2011)
Book Chapter
Halligan, B. (2011). Post-Fordism. In Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture. Sage

The sacred and profane (2011)
Book Chapter
Halligan, B. (2011). The sacred and profane. In D. Southerton (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture. Sage

The autumn in Germany : a dialogue on Fassbinder and terrorism (2010)
Book Chapter
Halligan, B., & Goddard, M. (2010). The autumn in Germany : a dialogue on Fassbinder and terrorism. In A. Nouss, & F. Vighi (Eds.), Pasolini, Fassbinder and Europe : Between Utopia and Nihilism. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Dialogue on film representations of terrorism and militant subjectivities

Sloths of Office: The Mid-life Crisis of Hollywood's Democrats, Part 1 (2010)
Journal Article
Halligan, B. (2010). Sloths of Office: The Mid-life Crisis of Hollywood's Democrats, Part 1. Film International, 8(4), 19-31. https://doi.org/10.1386/fiin.8.4.19

An examination of the representation of Democratic politicians in Hollywood films from the late 1990s to the present. This is a two part article.

Disco Galactica : futures past and present (2010)
Book Chapter
Halligan, B. (2010). Disco Galactica : futures past and present. In R. Kaveney, & J. Stoy (Eds.), Battlestar Galactica: Investigating Flesh, Spirit and Steel (81-109). London, UK: I B Tauris/Bloomsbury

An examination of the sexual politics and ideological framings of the original and recent versions of the American television series Battlestar Galactica.

Idylls of socialism : the Sarajevo Documentary School and the problem of the Bosnian sub-proletariat (2010)
Journal Article
Halligan, B. (2010). Idylls of socialism : the Sarajevo Documentary School and the problem of the Bosnian sub-proletariat. Studies in Eastern European Cinema, 1(2), 197-216. https://doi.org/10.1386/seec.1.2.197_1

This historical overview of the Sarajevo Documentary School considers the films, in the light of their recent re-emergence, as indicative of both the legacy of socialist realism (even in the context of Yugoslav media) and attempted social engineering... Read More about Idylls of socialism : the Sarajevo Documentary School and the problem of the Bosnian sub-proletariat.