Chris O’rourke
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3766470 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Chris O’rourke |
| PRENOMES | Chris |
| SOBRENOME | O’rourke |
| ASSINATURA | O’ROURKE C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6405-4874 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
David Greven. Maurice
The British Silent Film Festival and Symposium
A life in pictures
This essay examines the film career of Robert Allen (1914-98), a transgender man who worked behind the scenes as a production secretary and an assistant director in the British film industry in the 1940s, during and immediately after World War II. 1 In that brief time, Allen worked on several high-profile productions, including major feature films and government-sponsored propaganda efforts.This period also coincided with Allen's social transitio…
Imagining British film beauty
In the late 1910s and 1920s, a number of British national newspapers were involved in competitions to find potential stars for the British cinema. These ‘star search’ contests were aimed predominantly at young women. Often run in collaboration with British film producers, the competitions reflected, and sought to capitalise on, a moment of optimism about the prospects of the British production sector on the world market. But, as the language used…
Exploiting Ambiguity
The crime film Murder! (1930), directed by Alfred Hitchcock for British International Pictures and based on the novel Enter Sir John (1929) by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson, has long been cited in debates about the treatment of queer sexuality in Hitchcock's films. Central to these debates is the character of Handel Fane and the depiction of his cross-dressed appearances as a theatre and circus performer, which many critics have understood as a…
What a Pretty Man – or Girl!’
This article contributes to the growing scholarship on the representation of gender and gender transgression in British popular culture at the turn of the twentieth century by exploring the evidence provided by early British films. The article examines surviving prints and records of more than 80 films made in Britain between 1898 and 1918, all of which featured cross-dressing performances. The majority of these films involved male performers dre…
London on Film
Afterwards to see a Cinema show’
This article examines the records of cinema-going contained in the unpublished 1915 diary of Archibald Walker, a young, upper-middle-class ‘man about town’ living in wartime London. It considers the role of cinema in the context of Walker’s everyday life, and uses his diary to reconstruct a snapshot of the contemporary entertainment landscape of London’s West End. It then situates cinema in relation to two other West End leisure venues that Walke…
Early Cinema Today
Review of Martin Loiperdinger (ed.), Early Cinema Today: The Art of Programming and Live Performance (New Barnet: Libbey, 2011)
How to become a bioscope model
The bioscope or film ‘model’ was an early term used to designate the fiction film performer. Making its relatively brief appearance in film discourse around 1910, before the theatrical terminology of ‘actors’ and ‘acting’ had fully taken hold, the film ‘model’ hints at an alternative understanding of fiction film performance on the part of early audiences. This article traces the possible genealogy of the film ‘model’, relating it to the activiti…
Imagining British film beauty
In the late 1910s and 1920s, a number of British national newspapers were involved in competitions to find potential stars for the British cinema. These ‘star search’ contests were aimed predominantly at young women. Often run in collaboration with British film producers, the competitions reflected, and sought to capitalise on, a moment of optimism about the prospects of the British production sector on the world market. But, as the language used…
Afterwards to see a Cinema show’
This article examines the records of cinema-going contained in the unpublished 1915 diary of Archibald Walker, a young, upper-middle-class ‘man about town’ living in wartime London. It considers the role of cinema in the context of Walker’s everyday life, and uses his diary to reconstruct a snapshot of the contemporary entertainment landscape of London’s West End. It then situates cinema in relation to two other West End leisure venues that Walke…
How to become a bioscope model
The bioscope or film ‘model’ was an early term used to designate the fiction film performer. Making its relatively brief appearance in film discourse around 1910, before the theatrical terminology of ‘actors’ and ‘acting’ had fully taken hold, the film ‘model’ hints at an alternative understanding of fiction film performance on the part of early audiences. This article traces the possible genealogy of the film ‘model’, relating it to the activiti…
How to become a bioscope model
The bioscope or film ‘model’ was an early term used to designate the fiction film performer. Making its relatively brief appearance in film discourse around 1910, before the theatrical terminology of ‘actors’ and ‘acting’ had fully taken hold, the film ‘model’ hints at an alternative understanding of fiction film performance on the part of early audiences. This article traces the possible genealogy of the film ‘model’, relating it to the activiti…
Early Cinema Today
Review of Martin Loiperdinger (ed.), Early Cinema Today: The Art of Programming and Live Performance (New Barnet: Libbey, 2011)
Afterwards to see a Cinema show’
This article examines the records of cinema-going contained in the unpublished 1915 diary of Archibald Walker, a young, upper-middle-class ‘man about town’ living in wartime London. It considers the role of cinema in the context of Walker’s everyday life, and uses his diary to reconstruct a snapshot of the contemporary entertainment landscape of London’s West End. It then situates cinema in relation to two other West End leisure venues that Walke…
London on Film
Exploiting Ambiguity
The crime film Murder! (1930), directed by Alfred Hitchcock for British International Pictures and based on the novel Enter Sir John (1929) by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson, has long been cited in debates about the treatment of queer sexuality in Hitchcock's films. Central to these debates is the character of Handel Fane and the depiction of his cross-dressed appearances as a theatre and circus performer, which many critics have understood as a…
What a Pretty Man – or Girl!’
This article contributes to the growing scholarship on the representation of gender and gender transgression in British popular culture at the turn of the twentieth century by exploring the evidence provided by early British films. The article examines surviving prints and records of more than 80 films made in Britain between 1898 and 1918, all of which featured cross-dressing performances. The majority of these films involved male performers dre…
Imagining British film beauty
In the late 1910s and 1920s, a number of British national newspapers were involved in competitions to find potential stars for the British cinema. These ‘star search’ contests were aimed predominantly at young women. Often run in collaboration with British film producers, the competitions reflected, and sought to capitalise on, a moment of optimism about the prospects of the British production sector on the world market. But, as the language used…
The British Silent Film Festival and Symposium
A life in pictures
This essay examines the film career of Robert Allen (1914-98), a transgender man who worked behind the scenes as a production secretary and an assistant director in the British film industry in the 1940s, during and immediately after World War II. 1 In that brief time, Allen worked on several high-profile productions, including major feature films and government-sponsored propaganda efforts.This period also coincided with Allen's social transitio…
David Greven. Maurice
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