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• 2020

  Routes to Content: How people decide what TV to watch

  Johnson, C., Dempsey, L. & Hills, M., 31 Jan 2020, University of Huddersfield. 17 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Other report

  Open Access

  • television
  • public service
  • video on demand
  • program guide
  • BBC
• 2019

  «Черное зеркало», имплицитная религия и сакрализация «запойных просмотров» научной фантастики

  Hills, M., 1 Jun 2019, In: Gosudarstvo, Religiia, Tserkov' v Rossii i za Rubezhom/State, Religion and Church in Russia and Worldwide. 37, 3, p. 102-123 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Implicit Religion
  • science fiction
  • Sacralization
  • Science Fiction
  • Religion
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Anti-fandom Meets Ante-fandom: Doctor Who Fans' Textual Dislike and 'Idiorhythmic' Fan Experiences

  Hills, M., 1 Jan 2019, Anti-Fandom: Dislike and Hate in the Digital Age. Click, M. (ed.). New York: New York University Press, p. 102-122 21 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Black Mirror as a Netflix Original: Program Brand 'Overflow' and the Multi-Discursive Forms of Transatlantic TV Fandom

  Hills, M., 24 Jan 2019, Transatlantic Television Drama: Industries, Programs, and Fans. Hills, M., Hilmes, M. & Pearson, R. (eds.). New York : Oxford University Press, p. 213-238 26 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • fan
  • americanization
  • anxiety
  • discourse
  • experience

• Introduction: Fandom from Cradle to Grave?

  Hills, M., 1 Jun 2019, In: Journal of Fandom Studies. 7, 2, p. 87-92 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

• Transmedia Spectacle and Transownership Storytelling as Seen on TV: Star Wars from the Holiday Special to Rebels

  Hills, M., Jul 2019, Disney's Star Wars : Forces of Production, Promotion and Reception. Proctor, W. & McCulloch, R. (eds.). Iowa City: University of Iowa, p. 39-52 14 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• When the Pet Shop Boys were “imperial”: Fans’ self-aging and the neoliberal life course of “successful” text-aging

  Hills, M., 1 Jun 2019, In: Journal of Fandom Studies. 7, 2, p. 151-167 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Pet Shop Boys
  • Life Course
  • fan
  • Lead Singer
  • Duo
• 2018

  Always-On Fandom, Waiting and Bingeing: Psychoanalysis as an Engagement with Fans' "Infra-Ordinary' Experiences

  Hills, M., 2018, The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom. Click, M. & Scott, S. (eds.). 1 ed. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, p. 18-26 9 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • fan
  • psychoanalytic theory
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Othering
  • Sigmund Freud

• An extended Foreword: From fan doxa to toxic fan practices?

  Hills, M., 1 May 2018, In: Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies. 15, 1, p. 105-126 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  Open Access

• Audiences

  Hills, M., 18 Jun 2018, The Craft of Criticism: Critical Media Studies in Practice . Kackman, M. & Kearney, M. C. (eds.). New York : Routledge, p. 183-194 12 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Audience Studies
  • Poststructuralism
  • Ventriloquism
  • Film Audiences
  • 1970s

• Cult TV Revival: Generational Seriality, Recap Culture, and the "Brand Gap" of Twin Peaks: The Return

  Hills, M., 1 May 2018, In: Television and New Media. 19, 4, p. 310-327 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Seriality
  • ritual
  • Revival
  • Cult
  • Dementia
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• 'Event' TV Drama within Narrative Ecosystems: 'Extended Seriality' and Differing Paratextual Orientations in the 50th Anniversaries of Cult TV Shows

  Hills, M., 1 Jun 2018, Reading Contemporary Serial Television Universes: A Narrative Ecosystem Framework. Brembilla, P. & De Pascalis, I. A. (eds.). New York: Routledge, p. 184-200 17 p. (Routledge Advances in Television Studies).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • TV Drama
  • Seriality
  • Star Trek
  • Ecosystem
  • Cult

• Fandom

  Hills, M., 2018, The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds. Wolf, M. J. P. (ed.). London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, p. 274-280 7 p. (Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companion).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• From Transmedia Storytelling to Transmedia Experience: Star Wars Celebration as a Crossover/Hierarchical Space

  Hills, M., 2018, Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling. Guynes, S. & Hassler-Forest, D. (eds.). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, p. 213-224 12 p. (Transmedia; no. 3).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  Open Access

• How is popular television ‘political’? From the texts of Steven Moffat’s Doctor Who to brand/fan politics

  Hills, M., 1 Jun 2018, In: Journal of Popular Television . 6, 2, p. 167-182 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • popular television
  • fan
  • Television
  • Fans
  • politics

• Implicit Fandom in the Fields of Theatre, Art, and Literature: Studying "Fans" Beyond Fan Discourses

  Hills, M., 11 Apr 2018, A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies. Booth, P. (ed.). Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, p. 477-494 18 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Theatre Arts
  • fan
  • theater
  • Discourse
  • art
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• Netflix, transfandom and ‘trans TV’: Where data-driven fandom meets fan reflexivity

  Hills, M., 1 Dec 2018, In: Critical Studies in Television. 13, 4, p. 495-498 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

• Peter Capaldi’s ‘enduring fandom’ and the intersectionality of ageing male fan-celebrity: becoming, playing and leaving the 12th Doctor in Doctor Who

  Hills, M., 8 May 2018, In: Celebrity Studies. 9, 2, p. 202-215 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • intersectionality
  • VIP
  • fan
  • childhood
  • BBC

• 'Please welcome the twelfth Doctor': The Paratextual Branding of Peter Capaldi's Tenure

  Hills, M., 29 Nov 2018, Doctor Who: Twelfth Night. O'Day, A. (ed.). London: I.B. Tauris, p. 153-179 27 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Transmedia Paratexts: Informational, Commercial, Diegetic, and Auratic Circulation

  Hills, M., 1 Oct 2018, The Routledge Companion to Transmedia Studies. Freeman, M. & Rampazzo Gambarato, R. (eds.). 1st ed. New York: Routledge, p. 289-296 8 p. (Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • fan
  • subculture
  • museum
  • criticism
  • narrative

• United Kingdom: The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu's 'Comeback' as a Transmedia Undertaking

  Hills, M., 30 Apr 2018, Global Convergence Cultures: Transmedia Earth. Freeman, M. & Proctor, W. (eds.). 1st ed. New York: Routledge, p. 19-37 19 p. (Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Comeback
  • Dark Ages
  • Art
  • Social Media
  • Comic Books
• 2017

  A "Cult-like" Following: Nordic Noir, Nordicana and Arrow Films' Bridging of Subcultural/Neocultural Capital

  Hills, M., Nov 2017, Cult Media: Re-Packaged, Re-Released and Restored. Wroot, J. & Willis, A. (eds.). 1 ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan UK, p. 49-65 17 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Audience

  Hills, M., Jul 2017, Keywords for Media Studies. Ouellette, L. & Gray, J. (eds.). New York: New York University Press, p. 17-21 5 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Editorial Introduction: The multiplicities of transnational cult–intersecting with(in) reason

  Hills, M. & Sexton, J., 18 Jan 2017, In: Transnational Cinemas. 8, 1, p. 1-4 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review

  Open Access
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Fandom's paratextual memory: remembering, reconstructing, and repatriating "lost" Doctor Who

  Hills, M. & Garde-Hansen, J., 16 Mar 2017, In: Critical Studies in Media Communication. 34, 2, p. 158-167 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • fan
  • Fans
  • Data storage equipment
  • BBC
  • Sound recording
  7 Citations (Scopus)

• From Fan Culture/Community to the Fan World: Possible Pathways and Ways of Having Done Fandom

  Hills, M., 1 Dec 2017, In: Palabra Clave. 20, 4, p. 856-883 28 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • fan
  • Possible Worlds
  • Fans
  • Pathway
  • Giddens
  3 Citations (Scopus)

• 'Live' anniversary event TV as public service ephemera: Doctor Who, Casualty, Match of the Day, EastEnders and BBC moments of attachment

  Hills, M., 1 Sep 2017, In: Critical Studies in Television. 12, 3, p. 226-242 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • BBC
  • Television
  • anniversary
  • public service
  • Soaps (detergents)
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Popular Theatre and its ›Invisible‹ Fans: Fandom as External/Internal to the Theatrical Field

  Hills, M., 1 Dec 2017, In: Lili - Zeitschrift fur Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik. 47, 4, p. 487-503 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Popular Theatre
  • fan
  • theater
  • Invisible
  • Audience Studies

• Sherlock "Content" Onscreen: Digital Holmes and the Fannish Imagination

  Hills, M., 2017, In: Journal of Popular Film and Television. 45, p. 68-78 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • imagination
  • Sherlock Holmes
  • Screen Culture
  • Postmodernism
  • Post-feminism

• "The one you watched when you were twelve": Regenerations of Doctor Who and Enduring Fandom's 'Life-Transitional Objects'

  Hills, M., May 2017, In: Journal of British Cinema and Television. 14, 2, p. 213-230 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Transitional Object
  • Regeneration
  • fan
  • Doctors
  • Fans
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Transnational cult and/as neoliberalism: The liminal economies of anime fansubbers

  Hills, M., 2 Jan 2017, In: Transnational Cinemas. 8, 1, p. 80-94 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Anime
  • Neoliberalism
  • ritual
  • Liminal
  • neoliberalism
  5 Citations (Scopus)

• Traversing the "Whoniverse": Doctor Who's Hyperdiegesis and Transmedia Discontinuity/Diachrony

  Hills, M., 13 Sep 2017, World Building: Transmedia, Fans, Industries. Boni, M. (ed.). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, p. 343-361 19 p. (Transmedia; no. 2).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Discontinuity
  • fan
  • Doctors
  • Diachrony
  • producer
• 2013

  Back in the Mix: Exploring Intermediary Fandom and Popular Music Production

  Hills, M., 1 Oct 2013, Popular Music Fandom: Identities, Roles and Practices. Duffett, M. (ed.). 1st ed. Routledge, p. 16-36 21 p. (Routledge Studies in Popular Music).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Music Production
  • David Bowie
  • Bono
  • Popular music
  • Intermediaries
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• Cult Movies With and Without Cult Stars: Differentiating Discourses of Stardom

  Hills, M., 2013, Cult Film Stardom: Offbeat Attractions and Processes of Cultification. Egan, K. & Thomas, S. (eds.). 1st ed. Palgrave Macmillan, p. 21-36 16 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Stardom
  • Discourse
  • Movies
  • Cult
  • Cult Status
  3 Citations (Scopus)

• From Chris Chibnall to Fox: Torchwood's Marginalized Authors and Counter-Discourses of TV Authorship

  Hills, M., 15 Mar 2013, A Companion to Media Authorship. Gray, J. & Johnson, D. (eds.). Wiley-Blackwell, p. 200-220 21 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • production process
  • fan
  • discourse
  3 Citations (Scopus)

• Sherlocks for the Twenty-First Century

  Hills, M., 1 Sep 2013, Barthes' Mythologies Today: Readings of Contemporary Culture. Bennett, P. & McDougall, J. (eds.). 1st ed. Routledge, p. 41-44 4 p. (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies; vol. 52).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • twenty-first century
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• Star Wars in fandom, film theory, and the museum: The cultural status of the cult blockbuster

  Hills, M., 27 Mar 2013, Movie Blockbusters. Stringer, J. (ed.). 1st ed. Routledge, p. 178-189 12 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Film Historians
  • Star Wars
  • Hollywood Cinema
  • Film Critic
  • Blockbuster
  13 Citations (Scopus)

• The Prisoner: Cult TV Remakes

  Hills, M., Sep 2013, How to Watch Television. Thompson, E. & Mittell, J. (eds.). New York University Press, p. 290-298 9 p. (User’s Guides to Popular Culture).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Remake
  • Prisoners
  • Cult
  • 1960s
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• "Tim Is Very Personal": Sketching a Portrait of Tim Burton's Auteurist Fandom and Its Origins

  Hills, M., 2013, The Works of Tim Burton: Margins to Mainstream. Weinstock, J. (ed.). Palgrave Macmillan UK, p. 179-193 15 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Tim Burton
  • Auteurism
  • Prizewinners
  • Critical Acclaim
  • Film Culture
  1 Citation (Scopus)
• 2011

  Cutting into Concepts of "Reflectionist" Cinema? The Saw Franchise and Puzzles of Post-9/11 Horror

  Hills, M., Jan 2011, Horror After 9/11: World of Fear, Cinema of Terror. Briefel, A. & Miller, S. J. (eds.). University of Texas Press, p. 107-123 17 p. (Film, Media, and Popular Culture).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Franchise
  • September 11 Attacks
  • Torture
  • Cinema
  • Movies
  12 Citations (Scopus)

• Listening from behind the sofa? The (un)earthly roles of sound in BBC Wales' Doctor Who

  Hills, M., 1 Mar 2011, In: New Review of Film and Television Studies. 9, 1, p. 28-41 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Sofa
  • BBC
  • foreignness
  • Doctors
  • Wales
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• Television Aesthetics: A Pre-Structuralist Danger?

  Hills, M., Apr 2011, In: Journal of British Cinema and Television. 8, 1, p. 99-117 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review

  • Television
  • Structuralist
  • aesthetics
  • television
  • Danger
  14 Citations (Scopus)