Mike Starr

Senior Lecturer in Film & Screen Studies, University of Northampton, Culture
Centre for Critical and Creative Writing

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4680-435X

Emailmike.starr@northampton.ac.uk

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Bochra Benaissa; English and Creative Writing

Rethinking the Robinsonade: Self and Environment in the Twentieth Century Desert Island Narrative.

Cavan McLaughlin; Journalism and Media

Lucy4 Rising: An occultural exegesis of a screenplay as an analytical method of revisionary mythmaking.

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3 Chapter
1 Book
1 Paper
1 Article

“To Speak Against an Opponent Eloquently Makes You an Unusual Personage”: Joss Whedon as Deleuzian “Minor Writer"
Starr, M. J., 30 Oct 2019, Transmediating the Whedonverse(s): Essays on Text, Paratext, and Metatext. Kitchens, J. & Hawk, J. (eds.). London: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., p. 141-165 25 p.
Research output: Contribution to Book/Report › Chapter › peer-review
Introduction: Bloodlines: hunting the vampire through TV history
Jowett, L., Abbott, S. & Starr, M., 23 Oct 2017, In: Horror Studies. 8, 2
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review

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Wells Meets Deleuze: The Scientific Romances Reconsidered
Starr, M. J., 21 May 2017, Jefferson, N Carolina: McFarland. 220 p. (Critical Investigations in Science Fiction and Fantasy; no. 57)
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
"I flung myself into futurity": H.G. Wells’s Deleuzian time machine
Starr, M., 13 Mar 2015, Time Travel in Popular Media: Essays on Film, Television, Literature and Video Games. Jones, M. & Ormrod, J. (eds.). North Carolina: McFarland, p. 51-62 12 p.
Research output: Contribution to Book/Report › Chapter › peer-review
Whedon’s great glass elevator: space and intertextuality in The Cabin in the Woods
Starr, M., 5 Dec 2012, p. 1-16. 16 p.
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Paper › peer-review

Open Access
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The Magus in Marks and Spencer
Starr, M. J., Wiseman-Trowse, N., Starr, M. J. (ed.) & Wiseman-Trowse, N. (ed.), 2011, Studies in Comics: Alan Moore . 1 ed. Intellect, Vol. 2. (Studies in Comics).
Research output: Contribution to Book/Report › Chapter › peer-review

3 Organising a conference or workshop
1 Seminar

7th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses (SCW7)
Lorna Jowett (Organiser), Michael John Starr (Organiser), Stacey Abbott (Organiser), Simon Brown (Organiser) & Bronwen Calvert (Organiser)
7 Jul 2016 → 10 Jul 2016
Activity: Participating in or organising a conference or workshop › Organising a conference or workshop › Research
Daughter of Fangdom
Lorna Jowett (Organiser), Michael John Starr (Organiser) & Stacey Abbott (Organiser)
18 Apr 2015
Activity: Participating in or organising a conference or workshop › Organising a conference or workshop › Research
TV Fangdom: A Conference on Television Vampires
Lorna Jowett (Organiser), Michael John Starr (Organiser) & Stacey Abbott (Organiser)
7 Jun 2013 → 8 Jun 2013
Activity: Participating in or organising a conference or workshop › Organising a conference or workshop › Research
Striating the stubborn beast-flesh: H.G. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau and Deleuzoguattarian space
Michael John Starr (Speaker)
8 Dec 2011
Activity: Academic Talks or Presentations › Seminar › Research

Bag your seat and popcorn at Northampton’s Cult Film Club
Mike Starr
17/03/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media
Fan(g) Scholarship: Q+A with the minds behind Academic Conference “TV FANGDOM”
Lorna Jowett, Michael John Starr & Stacey Abbot
2/06/13
1 Media contribution
Press/Media

Untimely mutations: deterritorializing H.G. Wells's scientific romances
Author: Starr, M., 2011
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis