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.
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.
Rise of the Smog God: Ecological Apocalypse in Godzilla Vs. Hedorah
We Are The Mutants, 15/6/2021.
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