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Academic Articles
- "Trouble dans la masculinité: les détectives-héros du film noir hollywoodien des années 1940" (translated by Jules Sandeau), Genre en séries : cinéma, télévision, médias, no. 16 (2024), https://journals.openedition.org/ges/4642#ftn4
- “Cornell Woolrich and Radio Noir”, Crime Fiction Studies 4 (1) 2023, pp. 27-44; https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/cfs.2023.0083?af=R
- “Luxurious Cinemites and the Great Depression: Labour, Stardom and Stand-In (1937)”, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 41 (4) (May 2021), pp. 705-737; https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01439685.2021.1921335.
- “Exploring Film Seriality: An Introduction” (with Kathleen Loock), Film Studies 17 (1) (January 2018), pp. 1-15
- “’Chiller-Dillers for the Shiver-and-Shudder Set’: The Whistler Film Series”, Film Studies 17 (1) (January 2018), pp. 49-72
- “Therapeutic Horror? Olga Druce, House of Mystery and the Controversy over Children’s Radio Thrillers”, Journal of American Culture 40 (4) (December 2017), pp. 382-398
- “Spirited Vulgarity: Frank Tashlin as Comic Auteur“ (review article), Studies in American Humor, 3 (27) (June 2013): pp. 201-215
- “’Be Moviedom’s Guest in Your Own Easy Chair’: Hollywood, Radio and the Movie Adaptation Series“, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television (2013). pp. 24-54.
- “Cycles of Sensation: Popular Media, Thrills, and Outrage” (with Peter Stanfield), New Review of Film and Television Studies, 11 (1) (March 2013). pp. 1-5
- “Theatre of Thrills: The Culture of Suspense“, New Review of Film and Television Studies, 11 (1) (March 2013). pp. 6-33.
- “’Barbed Wire and Forget-Me-Not’: The Radio Adventures of Laura (1944)“, Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance, 5 (3) (2012). pp. 297-314
- “Critical Accommodations: Washington, Hollywood and the World War 2 Housing Crisis“, Journal of American Culture, vol. 30 no. 4 (2007). pp. 417-433
- “Trop de pensionnaires dans la maison de l’amour. L’idylle revisitée dans The More the Merrier (Plus on est de fous) et Walk, Don’t Run (Rien ne sert de courir)“, Les Cahiers du CIRCAV no 13: Pour une politique de la représentation, Reynold Humphries (ed.), Université de Lille (2001). pp. 169-193
- “The Handsome Man and His Monkey: the Comic Bondage of Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis“, Journal of Popular Film & Television, vol. 23 no. 1 (1995). pp. 16-25
- “The Enterprise of Seduction: Sex and Selling in Lover Come Back“, Journal of Popular Film & Television, vol. 22 no. 4 (1995). pp. 180-191
- “Jerry Lewis: the Deformation of the Comic“, Film Quarterly vol. 48 no. 1 (1994). pp. 12-26
- “The Faint Aroma of Performing Seals: the 'Nervous Romance' and the Comedy of the Sexes“, The Velvet Light Trap, no. 26 (1990). pp. 57-72
- “Verlangen, overtreding en Cain“, Versus, nos. 3-4 (1984). pp. 158-170
- “Heroies fatalisme en visueel delirium (Raw Deal) “, Versus, no. 3-4 (1984). pp. 124-143
- “The Clown-Prints of Comedy“, Screen, vol. 25 no. 4-5 (1984)
- “Desire, Transgression and James M. Cain“, Screenvol. 23 no. 1 (1982). pp. 31-44
- “Heroic Fatality and Visual Delirium: Raw Deal & the Film Noir“, Frameworkno. 15/16/17 (1981). pp. 21-4, 108110
- “The Shanghai Gesture: the Exotic and the Melodrama“, Wide-Angle vol. 4 no. 2 (1981). pp. 36-42
Chapters in Books
- “The sitcom on television” (with Steve Neale, republication), in Nick Marx and Matt Sienkiewicz (eds.), The Comedy Studies Reader, Austin: University of Texas Press (2018), pp, 136-143.
- "Foolish Wisdom? Chaplin and Duality", in La Figure de Charlot et ses avatars, eds. Morgane Jourdren et Pierre-Marie Loizeau, Presses universitaires de Rennes (2015); pp. 123-140.
- ““Mutinees Wednesdays and Saturdays”: Carnivalesque Comedy and the Marx Brothers“, in Andrew Horton and Joanna Rapf (eds.): A Companion to Film Comedy, Wiley-Blackwell (2012). pp. 87-110
- “Jerry Lewis: From Hamlet to Clown“, in R. Barton Palmer (ed.): Larger Than Life: Movie Stars of the 1950s (Star Decades), Rutgers University Press (2010). pp. 184-204
- ““A Living Part of the Class Struggle”: Diego Rivera’s The Flower Carrier and the Hollywood Left“, in Frank Krutnik, Steve Neale, Brian Neve, Peter Stanfield (eds.), Un-American” Hollywood: Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (2008). pp. 51-78
- “Introduction” (co-authored with Steve Neale, Brian Neve, Peter Stanfield), in Un-American” Hollywood: Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (2008). pp. 3-18
- “General Introduction“ (pp. 1-18) and Section Introductions, Frank Krutnik (ed), Hollywood Comedians: the Film Reader, London: Routledge (2003)
- “The Case of Silent Slapstick“ (with Steve Neale), Frank Krutnik (ed), Hollywood Comedians: the Film Reader, Routledge (2003). pp. 57-73
- “Sex and Slapstick: The Martin & Lewis Phenomenon“, Murray Pomerance (ed.): Enfant Terrible!: Jerry Lewis in American Film, New York: New York University Press (2002). pp. 109-122
- “Conforming Passions: Contemporary Romantic Comedy“, Steve Neale (ed.): Genre and Contemporary Hollywood,London: BFI (2002). pp. 130-147
- “Jerry Lewis: the Deformation of the Comic“, in Gregg Rickman (ed.), The Film Comedy Reader, New York: Limelight Editions (2002) [republication]
- “Broadcast Comedy and Sitcom“ (co-written with Steve Neale), in Edward Buscombe (ed.): British Television: A Reader, Oxford: Oxford University Press (2000) [republication]
- The Patsy, Lover Come Back, Annie Hall- 1,000-word entries for revised edition of Pam Cook (ed.), The Cinema Book, London: BFI (1999)
- “Love Lies: Romantic Fabrication in Contemporary Romantic Comedy“, Celestino Deleyto and Peter Evans (eds.), Terms of Endearment: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 80s and 90s, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (1998). pp. 15-36
- “Something More Than Night: Tales of the Noir City“, Dave Clarke (ed.), The Cinematic City, London: Routledge (1997). pp. 87-112
- “A Spanner in the Works? Genre, Narrative and the Hollywood Comedian“, Kristine Karnick and Henry Jenkins (eds.), Classical Hollywood Comedy, New York: Routledge (1995). pp. 17-38
Audio-Visual
- Writer and presenter of “Frank Krutnik on Appointment With Danger” (18 mins, video essay), Essential Film Noir: Collection 4 (Imprint blu-ray set #210-213, May 2023)
- Writer and presenter of “Frank Krutnik on The Enforcer” (19 mins, video essay), Essential Film Noir: Collection 4 (Imprint blu-ray set #210-213, May 2023)
- Audio commentary, Walk East on Beacon (1952), Columbia Noir #4 (Indicator blu-ray set, September 2021)
- Onscreen contributor to When Double Acts Fall Out, Double Yellow Television, documentary broadcast on Channel 5, March 2020
- “Cornell Woolrich and the B-Film”, Talk at 2nd Annual Dr. Saul and Dorothy Kit Film Noir Festival, Columbia University, New York, March 27-31 2019; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4-WW-jSpfE.
- Writer and presenter of “An Autopsy on Capitalism” (38 min. video essay), “Down and Down” (9 min. visual analysis) and “The Telephone is a Dangerous Object” (10.30 min. visual analysis), Force of Evil blu-ray, part of Four Film Noir Classics (Arrow Academy FCD1627), 20 November 2017.
- Writer and presenter of “Small Boy, Tough Guy” (29 minute video lecture), plus “Selected Scene Analysis” (9 minutes), The Blue Dahlia bluray (Arrow Academy FCD1360), 19 September 2016
- Writer of “Revisiting Cry of the City,” essay in the booklet for the Bfi blu-ray release of Robert Siodmak’s Cry of the City (BFI B1238), August 22, 2016, pp. 1-6.
- Onscreen contributor to Jerry Lewis - The Man Behind The Clown (2016), film directed by Gregory Monro.
- Writer & Presenter of video essays "The Fruits of Labour" (33 mins), "The Homecoming" (12 mins), "Delicious Gold" (8 mins) and "Rica" (11 mins), Thieves Highway: A Film by Jules Dassin, blu-ray/dvd (Arrow Academy FCD1165), October 2015
- "Frank Krutnik on The Killers", 54-minute interview, The Killers, blu-ray (Arrow Academy FCD1024), December 2014
- Writer of "Brute Force", blu-ray booklet, Brute Force: A Film by Jules Dassin, Arrow Academy FCD968, September 2014, 6-13
Various
- “Jazz and Cocktails: Rethinking Race and the Sound of Film Noir, Jans Wager, University of Texas Press: Austin, TX, 2017” (book review), Film Studies 20 (Spring 2019), 54-56.
- Invited nominator, Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy, Inamori Foundation, September 2011. 2015, 2019
- “Gene Wilder’s genius was in portraying the deluded straight man”, The Conversation, September 1, 2016, https://theconversation.com/gene-wilders-genius-was-in-portraying-the-deluded-straight-man-64760
- Radio talk on career of Jane Russell for Drivetime, BBC Radio Sussex, 1 March 2011
- Interviewed for “When Harry Met Sally at 20“, Greenpoint Productions, BBC Radio 4, 27 August 2009
- “Un-American Hollywood“, radio interview with Gavin Dahl, Digital Crossroads, KAOS Community Radio, Olympia, Washington, 4 July 2008
- Interviewed for Zeeya Merali, “Here’s Looking at You, Kid”, Nature vol. 453, 5 June 2008
- Respondent at Chaplin and the Modern Age, planning seminar for 2005 Chaplin symposium organised by the British Film Institute
- Contributor to Cheering Chaplin, special issue of Sight & Sound, vol. 13 no. 10, October 2003
- Interview with Jerry Fink for “Jerry-go-round: Debate still rages on Lewis’ film legacy”, The Las Vegas Sun, 14 April 2000
- Consultant for Sleuth, art exhibition, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff (June 1999) and Barbican Centre, London (January 2000)
- “Sleuth noir: investigating images“. Programme notes for Sleuth exhibition, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff (June 1999) and Barbican Centre, London, (January 2000)
- Interviewed for “Frank Capra: It's a Wonderful Life Story“, Kaleidoscope, BBC Radio 4, 12 April 1997
- Radio talk on film noir, The Usual Suspects, BBC Radio Scotland, 20 November 1995
- Radio talk on serial killer films, Queen Street Garden, BBC Radio Scotland; July 1991
- “The Bo Diddley Story” (article), Record Collector, June 1983
- “The Drifters“(article), Record Collector, November 1982
- “James M. Cain and Film“ (programme booklet), National Film Theatre, June 1983
- “Art For Whose Sake“ (article), Arrows (University of Sheffield), January 1985
- “The Thing Called Film Noir“ (programme notes). Frame-Up (University of Essex), 1987-1988
- “Walnuts Cannot Mistake“ (short fiction), The Madison Review (USA), vol. 12 no. 1, Spring 1990