All Outputs (8)

The end of history?: Contesting the legacy of the 1960s and 1970s in The X-Files (2023)
Book Chapter
Frame, G. (2023). The end of history?: Contesting the legacy of the 1960s and 1970s in The X-Files. In J. Fenwick, & D. A. Rodgers (Eds.), The Legacy of The X-Files (135-147). Bloomsbury Publishing

This chapter examines how The X-Files offered a revisionist historical perspective of the political upheaval the United States experienced through the 1960s and 1970s. It shows how in its relentless questioning of the official record on the assassina... Read More about The end of history?: Contesting the legacy of the 1960s and 1970s in The X-Files.

"Some Men Just Want to Watch the World Burn": The Politics of Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy (2023)
Book Chapter
Frame, G. (2023). "Some Men Just Want to Watch the World Burn": The Politics of Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy. In C. Parkinson, & I. Labrouillère (Eds.), A Critical Companion to Christopher Nolan (229-243). Rowman & Littlefield

Bad Hombres at the Border: Masculinity and Mexico in Rambo Last Blood (2022)
Book Chapter
Frame, G. (2022). Bad Hombres at the Border: Masculinity and Mexico in Rambo Last Blood. In H. Loyo, & J. A. Tarancón (Eds.), Screening the Crisis: US Cinema and Social Change in the Wake of the 2008 Crash (279-292). Bloomsbury Academic

The Rambo series (1982-2019) has functioned as a barometer of US domestic and foreign policies across its forty year history. At first a traumatised veteran of the war in Vietnam, John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) became a hard-bodied defender of US in... Read More about Bad Hombres at the Border: Masculinity and Mexico in Rambo Last Blood.

Teaching Demons and Eating Nazis: Morality in Trump-era Fantasy Comedy (2022)
Book Chapter
Frame, G., & Andrews, H. (2022). Teaching Demons and Eating Nazis: Morality in Trump-era Fantasy Comedy. In K. McNally (Ed.), American Television during a Television Presidency. Wayne State University Press

Donald Trump’s personality is arguably symptomatic of the values of the contemporary era. His aggressive individualism, narcissism and selfishness were no impediment to securing the presidency, which suggests the normalisation, indeed, valorisation,... Read More about Teaching Demons and Eating Nazis: Morality in Trump-era Fantasy Comedy.

Kubrick and the Critics (2021)
Book Chapter
Frame, G. (2021). Kubrick and the Critics. In N. Abrams, & I. Q. Hunter (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Stanley Kubrick (75-84). Bloomsbury Publishing

"You’ve Got to Decide How you Want History to Remember You": The Legacy of Lyndon B. Johnson in Film and Television (2018)
Book Chapter
Frame, G. (2018). "You’ve Got to Decide How you Want History to Remember You": The Legacy of Lyndon B. Johnson in Film and Television. In M. P. Cullinane, & S. Ellis (Eds.), Constructing Presidential Legacy: How we Remember the American President (133-157). Edinburgh University Press

The Leader of the Free World: Representing the declining presidency in television drama (2016)
Book Chapter
FRAME, G. (2016). The Leader of the Free World: Representing the declining presidency in television drama. In B. Kaklamanidou, & M. Tally (Eds.), Politics and Politicians in Contemporary US Television: Washington as Fiction (61-74). Routledge

Between "Information" and "Inspiration": The Office of War Information, Frank Capra's Why We Fight and US Propaganda during World War II (2016)
Book Chapter
FRAME, G. (2016). Between "Information" and "Inspiration": The Office of War Information, Frank Capra's Why We Fight and US Propaganda during World War II. In Y. Tzioumakis, & C. Molloy (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Politics. Routledge