Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies

Sole-authored publications:

Hills M – 'Media Academics as Media Audiences', Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World, (2007)

Hills M – 'Friday the Thirteenth as Para-paracinema', Sleaze Artists, (2007)

Hills M – 'Televisuality without Television? Discourses of the 'televisual' in Doctor Who's audio adventures', Time and Relative Dissertationss in Space: Critical Approaches to Doctor Who, (2007)

Hills M – 'Fan Cultures', Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, (2007)

Hills M – 'Les Diaboliques', 100 European Horror Films, (2007)

Hills M – 'Tesis', 100 European Horror Films, (2007)

Hills M – 'Is there such a thing as a "CSI Fan"? How audiences intertextually navigate the franchise', Reading CSI, (2007)

Hills M – 'Television and its Audience: Issues of Consumption and Reception', Televisions, (2006)

Hills M – 'Not just another powerless elite? When media fans become subcultural celebrities', Framing Celebrity, (2006)

Hills M – 'Realising the Cult Blockbuster', The Lord of the Rings: Popular Culture in Global Context, (2006)

[#1] Hills M – How to do Things with Cultural Theory, Hodder Education, London (2005) pp 208 ISBN 0-340-80915-9

[#1] Hills M – The Pleasures of Horror, Continuum, London (2005) pp 250 ISBN 0-8264-5888-2

[#11] Hills M – Patterns of Surprise: The ‘Aleatory Object’ in Psychoanalytic Ethnography and Cyclical Fandom, American Behavioural Scientist 48 (7) (2005) pp 801 – 821 ISSN 0002-7642

[#11] Hills M – Negative Fan Stereotypes (‘Get a Life!’) and Positive Fan Injunctions (‘Everyone’s Got to be a Fan of Something!’): Returning to Hegemony Theory in Fan Studies, Spectator: The University of Southern California Journal of Film and Television Criticism 25 (1) (2005) pp 37 – 47 ISSN 1051-0230

[#7] Hills M - Dawson’s Creek: ‘Quality Teen TV’ and ‘Mainstream Cult’?, Teen TV: Genre, Consumption and Identity, (Editors Davis G and Dickinson K), BFI, London, (2004) 54 - 67 ISBN 0-85170-999-0

[#11] Hills M - Strategies, Tactics, and the Question of Un Lieu Propre: What/Where is “Media Theory”?, Social Semiotics 14 2 (2004) 133 - 149 ISSN 1035-0330 Genre, Consumption and Identity, (Editors Davis G and Dickinson K), BFI, London, (2004) 54 - 67 ISBN 0-85170-999-0

[#7] Hills M - Defining Cult TV; Texts, Inter-texts and Fan Audiences, The Television Studies Reader, (Editors Allen R C and Hill A), Routledge, London and New York (2004) 509 - 523 ISBN 0-415-28324-8

[#7] Hills M - Doing Things with Theory: From Freud’s Worst Nightmare to (Disciplinary) Dreams of Horror’s Cultural Value, Horror Film and Psychoanalysis: Freud’s Worst Nightmare, (Editor Schneider S J) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York (2004) 205 - 221 ISBN 0-521-82521-0

[#7] Hills M – Doctor Who, Fifty Key Television Programmes (Editor Creeber G) Arnold, London (2004) 75 – 79 ISBN: 0-340-80943-4

[#7] Hills M – The Prisoner, Fifty Key Television Programmes (Editor Creeber G) Arnold, London (2004) 164 - 168 ISBN 0-340-80943-4

[#7] Hills M – Star Trek, Fifty Key Television Programmes (Editor Creeber G) Arnold, London (2004) 193 – 197 ISBN 0-340-80943-4

[#7] Hills M – The Twilight Zone, Fifty Key Television Programmes (Editor Creeber G) Arnold, London (2004) 217 - 221 ISBN 0-340-80943-4

Hills M – Putting Away Childish Things: Jar Jar Binks and the 'Virtual Star' as an Object of Fan Loathing', Contemporary Hollywood Stardom, (2003)

Hills M – 'An Event-Based Definition of Art-Horror', Dark Thoughts: Philosophic Reflections on Cinematic Horror, (2003)

Hills M – 'Star Wars in Fandom, Film Theory and the Museum: the cultural status of the cult blockbuster', Movie Blockbusters, (2003)

[#7] Hills M - Fan Cultures, Sussex Studies in Culture and Communication Series, Routledge (2002)

Hills M – 'TV Guides', Predicting/Preventing the TV discourse of Tomorrow, (2002)

[#7] Hills M - Virtually out there: Strategies, tactics and affective spaces in online fandom, Technospaces: Inside the New Media (Editor: Munt, S) Continuum (2001)

[#7] Hills M - Mapping Pratchett: Hyper-diegesis and Fantasy, Terry Pratchett: Guilty of literature, Foundation Studies in Science Fiction, (Editors: James, E and Mendlesohn, F) (1999)

[#7] Hills M - The (dis)pleasures of consuming: Extrapolations of consumer society in the science fiction of Michael Marshall Smith, Consuming for Pleasure (Editor: Moody, N) Liverpool John Moores Press (1999) pp 64 - 77

Journal articles:

Hills M - 'From the Box in the Corner to the Box Set on the Shelf: 'TVIII' and the Cultural/Textual Valorisations of DVD', New Review of Film and Television Studies, (2007)

Hills M - 'Michael Jackson Fans on Trial: Documenting Emotivism and Negative Fan Stereotypes', Social Semiotics, (2007)

Hills M - 'Essential Tensions: Winnicottian Object-Relations in the Media Sociology of Roger Silverstone', International Journal of Communication, (2007)

[#11] Hills M - Doctor Who Discovers… Cardiff: Investigating trans-generational audiences and trans-national fans of the BBC Wales Production (2006) in Wales Media Journal 2006 Issue.

[#11] Hills M and Williams R – ‘It’s All My Interpretation': Reading Spike Through the Subcultural Celebrity of James Marsters, European Journal of Cultural Studies Vol. 8, No. 3 (2005).

Hills M – 'Angel's Monstrous Mothers and Vampires with Souls: Investigating the Abject in 'Television Horror', Reading Angel: The TV Spin-Off With A Soul, (2005)

[#11] Hills M - Patterns of Surprise: The “Aleatory Object” in Psychoanalytic Ethnography and Cyclical Fandom, American Behavioral Scientist Vol. 48, No. 7, special issue on fan studies (2005)

[#11] Hills M - From “Get a Life” to “Everyone Has To Be a Fan of Something”: Returning to Hegemony Theory in Fan Studies, Spectator: The University of South California Journal of Film and TV, special issue on media fandom (2005)

[#11] Hills M - Strategies, Tactics and the Question of Un Lieu Propre: What/Where is “Media Theory”?, Social Semiotics Volume 14, Number 2 (2004).

[#11] Hills M - Counterfictions in the Work of Kim Newman: Rewriting Gothic SF as “Alternate Story Stories”, Science Fiction Studies Volume 30, Part 3 (2003).

[#11] Hills M - Subcultural celebrity' and cult TV fan cultures, Mediactive Issue 2 (2003)

[#11] Hills M - Media fandom, neoreligiosity, and cult(ural) studies, The Velvet Light Trap: A Critical Journal of Film and Television No. 46 (2000)

[#11] Hills M - The common sense of Cultural Studies: Qualitative Audience Research and the role of theory in(-)determining method, Diegesis: The Journal of the Association for Research into Popular Fictions No. 5 (1999).