•“Roger Fry, Bloomsbury and Transfer Lithography” in Tuhinga: Records of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, 31, 2020, pp 5-18.

•“Copies and Translations: Roger Fry, Old Masters and the Omega Workshops” in the British Art Journal, Volume XVI, No. 1, 2015 (Summer), pp. 47-57.

•“The Aesthetics of Utopia: Creation, Creativity and a Critical Theory of Design” in Thesis Eleven, Vol. 123(1), 2014, pp 41-61.

• “One Hundred Years of the Titanic on Film”, in the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Volume 32, number 1, March 2012, pp. 73-93.

•“The Glamour of the Gods”, exhibition review essay in Celebrity Studies, Volume 3, number 1, March 2012, pp. 119–121.

•“Celebrities, Saints and Sinners: The Photograph as Holy Relic” in Celebrity Studies, Volume 2, No 2, July 2011, pp. 112-130.

•“How We Are: Photographing Britain”, exhibition review essay,  in National Identities,  Volume 9, Issue 4, December, 2007, pp. 427-430.

•“Louis Le Prince: The Body of Evidence” in Screen, Volume 47, Number 2, Summer 2006, pp. 179-200.

•“‘Is it Because I is Black?’ Race, Humour and the Polysemiology of Ali G” in the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television Volume 26, Number 2, June 2006, pp. 155- 177.

•“Midget Cities: Utopia, Utopianism and the Vor-schein of the ‘Freak’ Show” in Disability Studies Quarterly, Volume 25, Number 3, Summer 2005. Co-authored with Michael M. Chemers (Carnegie Mellon University).

• “Self Portrait: The Sense of Self in British Documentary Photography” in National Identities, Volume 4, Number 2, 2002, pp. 101-118.

•“Media, Education and Democracy” in the European Review (Academia Europaea), Volume 9, Number 2, 2001, pp. 159-168.

•“Atlantic Crossings: Nation, Class and Identity in ‘Titanic’ (1953) and ‘A Night to Remember’ (1958) in the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Volume 19, Number 4, 1999, pp. 421-438.

•“Order and Fantasy: An Interview with Aaron Siskind” in Word & Image, Volume 15, Number 3, July-September, 1999, pp. 277-285.

•“The Labour Party” in the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Volume 17, Number 4, October, 1997, pp. 445-452.

•“Introduction: The Battle for Britain --Political Broadcasting and the British Election of 1997” (co-authored with Nicholas J. Cull) in the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Volume 17, Number 4, October, 1997, pp. 437-443.

•“Re-sinking the Titanic: Hubris, Nemesis and the Modern World” in Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations, Volume 1, Number 2, 1997, pp.151-158.