Bill Osgerby

I am currently Professor in Media, Culture and Communications.

My research interests principally focus on modern American and British media and cultural history — with particular regard to the areas of gender, sexuality, youth culture, consumption, print media, popular television, film and music.

I am a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (FRSA) and am a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for 'Cultographies' (Wallflower Press).

I am involved with the delivery of a range of Media and Mass Communications modules at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. I also play a key role in the development of research strategies for the Media, Digital Media and Mass Communications subject area. As such, I would welcome applications from students interested in undertaking postgraduate research.

Publications.

i) Single-Authored Books.

Full Throttle Cinema: Hollywood, Subculture and the Biker Mythology - A Study in Cultural History, London: I.B. Tauris, 2007 (forthcoming).
Biker: Style and Subculture on Hell's Highway, Guildford, CT (US): Lyons Press, 2005.
Youth and the Media, London: Routledge, 2004.
Playboys in Paradise: Masculinity, Youth and Leisure-Style in Modern America, Oxford: Berg / New York University Press, 2001.
Youth in Britain Since 1945, Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.

ii) Co-Edited Anthologies.

(with Anna Gough-Yates, London Metropolitan University) Action TV: 'Tough Guys, Smooth Operators and Foxy Chicks'

(2001) London: Routledge.

ii) Journal Articles.

‘The Filth and the Fury: The Development and Impact of British Punk Rock’, Groniek: Historisch Tijdschrift, special edition - muziek
en maatschappij in de twintigste eeuw, July 2008.
'The "Bachelor Pad" As Cultural Icon', Journal of Design History, Vol. 18, No. 1, 2005.
'Sleazy Riders: Exploitation, "Otherness" and Transgression in the 1960s Biker Movie', Journal of Popular Film and Television, Autumn, 2003.
'A Pedigree of the Consuming Male: Masculinity, Consumption and the American "Leisure Class"', in Bethan Benwell (ed.), Masculinity and Men's Lifestyle Magazines, Sociological Review edited monographs series, 2003.
'"The Young Ones": Youth, Consumption and Representations of the "Teenager" in Postwar Britain', Anglistik & Englischuntericht, No. 63, 2000.
‘"Well, It’s Saturday Night an’ I Just Got Paid": Youth, Consumption and Hegemony in Britain 1945-90’, Contemporary Record, Vol. 6, No. 1, 1992.

iv) Anthology Chapters.

‘From Subcultures to Post-Subcultures?: Theorising Contemporary Youth Culture’, in Brian Howman and Cassie Ogden (eds), Subcultures: Deviants or Illuminators?, Chester: University of Chester Press, 2008.
‘Two-Fisted Tales of Brutality and Belligerence: Masculinity and Meaning in the American "True Adventure" Pulps of the 1950s and 1960s’, in Jessica Meyer and Heather Ellis (eds), Masculinity and the Other: Masculine Alterity in Historical Perspective, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishers, 2008.
‘The Usual Suspects: Media Representations of Youth’, in Daniele Albertazzi and Paul Cobley (eds), The Media (3^rd edition), Edinburgh: Pearson Education, 2008.
‘Pages of Sin: Bettie Page - From "Cheesecake" Tease to Bondage Queen’, in Xavier Mendik (ed.), Peep Shows: Essays in Visual Erotica, London: Wallflower Press, 2008.
‘Understanding the "Jackpot Market": Media, Marketing and the Rise of the American Teenager’, in Dan Romer and Patrick Jamieson (eds), The Changing Portrayal of Youth in the Media and Why It Matters Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
‘Sells Like Teen Spirit: Business, Technology and the "Post-Fordist" Youth Market’, in Usha Rodrigez and Belinda Smaile (eds), Youth Media in the Asia Pacific Region, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008.
‘Kamikaze Riders’, in Arthur Veno (ed.), Bikers, London, Constable and Robinson, 2007.
'"Seized By Change, Liberated By Affluence": Youth, Consumption and Cultural Change in Postwar Britain', in Bob Moore (ed.), Twentieth Century Mass Culture in Britain and the netherlands, Oxford: Berg: 2006.
'Rapture of the Deep: Leisure, Lifestyle and the Lure of 60s Scuba', in David Bell and Joanne Hollows (eds), Historicising Lifestyle: Mediating Taste, Consumption and Identity from the 1900s to the 1970s, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006.
'Sex, Style and Single Girls: Consumerism, Representation and the "New Femininity" in 1960s America', in David Holloway and John Beck (eds), American Visual Culture, London: Continuum, 2005.
'Youth Cultures in Contemporary Britain', in Paul Addison and Harriet Jones (eds), The Blackwell Companion to Conemporary British History, Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.
'"So Who's Got Time For Adults!": Femininity, Consumption and the Development of Teen TV — From Gidget to Buffy', in Glyn Davis and Kay Dickinson (eds), Teen TV in the 1990s: Genre, Consumption and Identity, London: BFI, 2004.
'Full Throttle on the Highway to Hell: Mavericks, Machismo and Mayhem in the American Biker Movie', in Xavier Mendik and Steven Jay Schneider (eds), Underground USA Filmmaking Beyond the Hollywood Canon, London: Wallflower Press, 2002.
'"A Caste, A Culture, A Market": Youth, Lifestyle and Marketing Practice in Postwar America', in Ronald Strickland (ed.), Growing Up Postmodern, Chicago: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002.
'"The Good, The Bad and the Ugly": Media Representations of Youth Since 1945', in Paul Cobley and Adam Briggs (eds), Introduction to the Media, London: Longman, 2^nd. edn., 2002.
'"Shakin' All Over": Teenagers, Consumption, and Social Change in Postwar Britain', in Michael Oliker and Walter P. Krolikowski (eds), Images of Youth: Popular Culture as Educational Ideology, Chicago: Peter Lang Press, United States, 2001.
'Masculinity, Consumption and British Television During the 1960s', in Antonio Ballesteros-Gonzalez and Lucia Mora (eds), Popular Texts in English: New Perspectives, Ciudad Real (Spain): Cuenca: Ediciones de la Universidad de Castila - La Mancha, 2001.
'Bachelors in Paradise: Masculinity, Lifestyle and Men's Magazines in Postwar America', in John Horne (ed.), Masculinities: Leisure Cultures, Identities and Consumption, LSA Publication No. 69, 2000.
'Muscular Manhood and Salacious Sleaze: The Singular World of the 1950s "Macho Pulps"', in Nathan Abrams and Julie Hughes (eds), Containing Cultures: Cultural Production and Consumption in Fifties America, Birmingham: Birmingham University Press, 2000.
'"Stand-by for Action!": Gerry Anderson, Supermarionation and the "White-Heat" of Sixties Modernity', in Graeme Harper and Xavier Mendik (eds), Cult Film and Its Critics, London:Film Forum/FAB Press, 2000.
'Beach Bound: Exotica, Leisure-Style and Popular Culture in Postwar America: From South Pacific to Beach Blanket Bingo', in Bill Marshall (ed.), Musicals: Hollywood and Beyond, Exeter: Intellect Press, 2000.
'"Chewing Out a Rhythm on My Bubble-gum": The Teen Aesthetic and Genealogies of American Punk', in Roger Sabin (ed.), Punk Rock - So What?: The Cultural Legacy of Punk, London: Routledge, 1999.
‘"The Good, The Bad and the Ugly": Media Representations of Youth Since 1945’, in Paul Cobley and Adam Briggs (eds), Introduction to the Media, London: Longman, 1997.
‘"Something in the Air": Youth Culture and Subcultural Style in Sixties Britain’, in David Mellor, Laurence Bertrand Dorléac and Sarah Wilson (eds), Les Années Utopies: France et Grande-Bretagne 1962-1973, Musée d'Histoire Contemporaine, Paris, 1996. (Also published in Britain by Philip Wilson Press as The Sixties: Britain and France, 1962-1973 - The Utopian Years).