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Full Chronological Publication List

IN PREPARATION

Godzilla: A Critical Demonology

Headpress Books​.

FORTHCOMING

The Dirty Harry Problem

In: ReFocus: The Films of Don Siegel, ed. by Jamie Popowich and Aaron Tucker. Edinburgh University Press, 2026.  ​

Target Confirmed: Drone Visuality, Dehumanization, and the Weeping Soldier in Eye in the Sky

In: War Faces on Screen: Photography, Film, and the Politics of Representation, ed. by Mani Sharpe and Katy Parry. Bloomsbury, 2026.

Kiryu: Cyborg Reincarnation and Rebel Monstrosity in the Millennium Mechagodzilla Duology

In: Creature Redux: Considering the Pasts, Presents, and Futures of Chimera in Fiction and Popular Culture, ed. by Samantha Baugus and Ayanni C. H. Cooper. University of Mississippi Press, 2025.

How Popular Culture Launders Torture

In: The Long Road to Closing Guantanamo: Action, Accountability and Justice, ed. by Sara Birch, Richard Kotter, Hugh Sandeman and Andy Worthington. Ethics Press, 2025.

The Ticking Bomb Drone Strike: Drone Warfare and Emergency Ethics in Eye in the Sky

In: Human Rights in the Age of Drones: Critical Perspectives on Post-9/11 Literature, Film and Art, ed. by Muhammad Waqar Azeem. Palgrave, 2025.

2025

Drone as Death Star: The Creator and the Task of Critique

Cinema and Social Justice Blog, 31/3/2025.

url: https://cinemasocialjustice.org/2025/03/31/drone-as-death-star-the-creator-and-the-task-of-critique/

2024

Kill Box: Military Drone Systems and Cultural Production

Rowman and Littlefield: Hardback and eBook.

The Attack Killed Them: Drone Warfare and the Exonerative Voice

Drone Wars UK Blog, 5/12/2024.

url: https://dronewars.net/2024/12/05/the-attack-killed-them-drone-warfare-and-the-exonerative-voice/

The Blackness of the Beast: Godzilla in the Heart of Darkness

Revista De Estudios Norteamericanos [Journal of American Studies] 28 (December): Special Section: Darkness in the American Audiovisual Imagination, pp. 5-35.

doi: https://doi.org/10.12795/REN.2024.i28.8

Devastation Songs: An Anthology of Kaiju Writing

Broken Sleep Books. Co-edited with Aaron Kent.

Introduction, pp. 7-8.

Poetry contribution: Egg (Imaginal Discs), pp. 29-32.

Introduction: Militarisation and Pleasure

Culture, Theory, and Critique 64.1-2: Militarisation and Pleasure, pp. 1-18.

Co-authored with Amy Gaeta.

doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14735784.2024.2394417

2023

Review: Godzilla Minus One

CineVue, 19/12/2023.

url: https://cine-vue.com/2023/12/film-review-godzilla-minus-one.html

Surf Nazis Must Die: An Examination of the Red Bamboo Army

Kaiju Ramen 10 (July), pp. 26-32.

The Colour of Monstrosity in Godzilla 2014 and Godzilla Vs Kong

PopMeC Blog, 17/8/2023.

url: https://popmec.hypotheses.org/5186

TERFs Are Drawing on the Same Fascist Arguments as Torture Advocates

Truthout, 26/6/2023.

url: https://truthout.org/articles/terfs-are-drawing-on-the-same-fascist-arguments-as-torture-advocates/

Militarisation and Pleasure: Culture, Theory, and Critique 64: 1-2 

February-May 2023. Co-edited with Amy Gaeta.

url: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rctc20/64/1-2

​2022

The Report and the Task of Critique: Torture, Exposure, and the Spectacle of Accountability

Quarterly Review of Film and Video 39.7, pp. 1619-1633.

doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10509208.2021.1963164

Blame the War, Not the Troops: Good Kill

Journal of War and Culture Studies 15.4: Special Issue on the Aesthetics of Drone Warfare, pp. 408-424.

doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/17526272.2022.2116187

Rebel Inc., Colonialism Simulator 

First Person Scholar, 27/7/2022.

url: http://www.firstpersonscholar.com/rebel-inc-colonialism-simulator/

Finding Redemption for Gigantis, The Fire Monster

Certified Forgotten, 22/4/2022.

url: https://certifiedforgotten.com/gigantis-the-first-monster/

Doom, Détente, Dr Pepper: Godzilla 1984 and Godzilla 1985

We Are The Mutants, 31/1/2022.

url: ​https://wearethemutants.com/2022/01/31/doom-detente-dr-pepper-godzilla-1984-and-godzilla-1985/

2021

The Golden Hydra: King Ghidorah, Astro-Colonizers, and Cold War Empire

We Are The Mutants, 6/10/2021.

url: https://wearethemutants.com/2021/10/06/the-golden-hydra-king-ghidorah-astro-colonizers-and-cold-war-empire/

Camp X-Ray and the Task of Critique: Torturability and the Politics of Ethical Recognition in Guantánamo

Journal of Film and Video 73.3, pp. 23-33.

url: https://doi.org/10.5406/jfilmvideo.73.3.0023

The Report and the Task of Critique: Torture, Exposure, and the Spectacle of Accountability

Quarterly Review of Film and Video online publication, 19/8/2021.

doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10509208.2021.1963164

Guantanamo Memoir Film Skewers George W. Bush, But Exonerates Barack Obama

Truthout, 15/7/2021.

url: https://truthout.org/articles/guantanamo-memoir-film-skewers-george-w-bush-but-exonerates-barack-obama/

Rise of the Smog God: Ecological Apocalypse in Godzilla Vs. Hedorah

We Are The Mutants, 15/6/2021.

url: https://wearethemutants.com/2021/06/15/rise-of-the-smog-god-ecological-apocalypse-in-godzilla-vs-hedorah-1971/

Dr Smash's Film Club 06: Circle of Shit: The Human Centipede Series (2009-2015)

Repeater Radio, 16/4/2021.

url: https://www.mixcloud.com/RepeaterRadio/alex-adams-dr-smashs-film-club-06-circle-of-shit/

Dr Smash's Film Club 05: Marvel's Weeping Executioner: The Punisher

Repeater Radio, 2/4/2021.

url: https://www.mixcloud.com/RepeaterRadio/alex-adams-dr-smashs-film-club-05-marvels-weeping-executioner/

The Greatest Showa on Earth: 1962’s King Kong vs. Godzilla

We Are The Mutants, 25/3/2021.

url: https://wearethemutants.com/2021/03/25/the-greatest-showa-on-earth-1962s-king-kong-vs-godzilla/

Dr Smash's Film Club 04: Torture Therapy: The Saw Franchise (2004-2021)

Repeater Radio, 19/3/2021.

url: https://www.mixcloud.com/RepeaterRadio/dr-smashs-film-club-2/

Death TV: Drone Warfare in Contemporary Popular Culture

Free Online PDF & Softcover Hard Copy: Drone Wars UK.

url: https://dronewars.net/2021/03/10/death-tv-drone-warfare-in-contemporary-popular-culture/

Pop Culture Portrays Aerial Bombardment of Middle East as “Business as Usual”

Truthout, 7/3/2021.

url: https://truthout.org/articles/pop-culture-portrays-aerial-bombardment-of-middle-east-as-business-as-usual/

Dr Smash's Film Club 03: Pikachu, Torturer: Police Brutality and Family Entertainment [audio]

Repeater Radio, 5/3/2021.

url: https://www.mixcloud.com/RepeaterRadio/dr-smashs-film-club-1/

Dr Smash's Film Club 02: Death TV: Drone Warfare in Contemporary Popular Culture [audio]

Repeater Radio, 19/2/2021.

url: https://www.mixcloud.com/RepeaterRadio/dr-smashs-film-club/

Dr Smash's Film Club 01: Torture Tourism: The Hostel Series (2005-2011) [audio]

Repeater Radio, 29/1/2021.

url: https://www.mixcloud.com/RepeaterRadio/dr-smashs-film-club-01-hostel/

Interview: The Translator Interviews the Author: Alex Adams on Torture and its Justifications (trans. Iman Marouf)

Takween Creative Writing Platform, 12/1/2021.

url: https://takweenkw.com/blog/3049/single

2020

كيف يبرر التعذيب؟ في عمق سيناريو القنبلة الموقوتة (How to Justify Torture: Inside the Ticking Bomb Scenario, arabic translation.) Trans. Iman Marouf. Kuwait: Takween Publishing.

"It Ain't No Man": The Colonial Iconography of Predator

We Are The Mutants, 3/12/2020. 

url: https://wearethemutants.com/2020/12/03/it-aint-no-man-the-colonial-iconography-of-predator/

Drone Strikes in Popular Culture: Eye in the Sky

Drone Wars UK Blog, 24/6/2020.

url: https://dronewars.net/2020/06/24/drone-strikes-in-popular-culture-eye-in-the-sky/

A Direct Line Through Time, and Some Hope: Eminent Monsters

Repeater Books Blog, 1/6/2020.

url: https://repeaterbooks.com/a-direct-line-through-time-and-some-hope-eminent-monsters-alex-adams

2019

Confronting Britain’s Legacy of Torture

Truthdig, 25/11/2019.

url: https://www.truthdig.com/articles/britain-land-of-tea-and-torture/

Interview: Making Torture American Again, With Help From Hollywood

Truthdig, 23/9/2019.

url: https://www.truthdig.com/articles/making-torture-american-again-with-help-from-hollywood/

Interview: Torture and the Bomb that Never Existed [audio]

This Is Hell!, 7/9/2019.

url: https://thisishell.com/interviews/1072-alex-adams

How Pop Culture Tries to Justify Torture

Truthout, 7/9/2019.

url: https://truthout.org/articles/how-pop-culture-tries-to-justify-torture/

Interview: Getting Away With Torture is Easy if You're Captain America

The Outline, 5/9/2019.

url: https://theoutline.com/post/7876/how-to-justify-torture-alex-adams-interview

How to Justify Torture: Inside the Ticking Bomb Scenario

Repeater Books: Paperback and eBook.

Blackstone Publishing: Audiobook.

Political Torture in Popular Culture: The Role of Representations in the Post-9/11 Torture Debate

Routledge: Paperback reissue.

2018

Graner’s Laugh: The Conceptual Architecture of a Guantánamo Rape Joke

Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 44.1, pp. 107-130.

​doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/698279

Knowing the Double Agent: Islam, Uncertainty, and the Fragility of the Surveillant Gaze in Homeland 

​In: Surveillance, Race, Culture. Edited by Antonia Mackay and Susan Flynn. Palgrave. pp. 125-143.

doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77938-6_7

2017

“The Sweet Tang of Rape”: Torture, Survival, and Masculinity in Ian Fleming’s Bond Novels

Feminist Theory 18.2, pp. 137-158.

​doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464700117700043

Review Essay: Robert Young, Empire, Colony, Postcolony

Interventions 19.5, pp. 738-740.

doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2017.1281399

Review Essay: Neil Jackson, Shaun Kimber, Johnny Walker, and Thomas Joseph Watson (eds.), Snuff: Real Death and Screen Media

Visual Studies 32.1, pp. 92-93.

doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2016.1274182

2016

Political Torture in Popular Culture: The Role of Representations in the Post-9/11 Torture Debate

Routledge: Hardback, eBook.

Guantánamo Boy and the Task of Critique

The Lion and the Unicorn 40.3, pp. 245-261.

​doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/uni.2016.0023

2015

Review Essay: Rebecca Weaver-Hightower and Peter Hulme (eds.), Postcolonial Film: History, Empire, Resistance

Interventions 17.2, pp. 296-298.

doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2015.1000682

2014

The Infinitely Complex Ropeskipping Existence 

​In: Double Dutch: A Game. Edited by Isabel Lima. Arts Council UK. pp. 21-29.

Terrorism as Sexual Envy: Adversarial Masculinities in Two Fictions of Ticking Bomb Torture

​In: Terrorist Transgressions: Gender and the Visual Culture of the Terrorist. Edited by Sue Malvern and Gabriel Koureas. IB Tauris. pp. 181-201.

“What Can Be Infinitely Destroyed Is What Can Infinitely Survive”: Literary and Filmic Representations of Political Torture from Algiers to Guantánamo

PhD thesis.

url: https://theses.ncl.ac.uk/jspui/handle/10443/2388

2012

Review Essay: Jane Hiddleston, Poststructuralism and Postcoloniality: The Anxiety of Theory

Interventions 14.2, pp. 324-326.

doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2012.694700

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