Dr Joan Ormrod
Joan Ormrod is a member of the Media Research Centre.
A selection of recent research outputs.- Jointly Authored Book
Ormrod, J. and Wheaton, B., 2009. 'One the Edge: Representing Adventure Sports', Leisure Studies Association.
- Edited Books
Ormrod, J., 2008. 'Endless Summer: Consuming Waves and Surfing the Frontier', The University Press of Kentucky.
- Book Chapters
Ormrod, J., 2014. 'Bodies in Wonder Woman of the 1990s: Good Girls Bad Girls and Macho Men'. In Conference Proceedings Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy: Catwoman to Katniss, Cambridge Scholar.
Ormrod, J., 2013. 'Wonder Woman in the Cold War: Testing the Limits of the Familial Body'. In Joseph Darowski (eds.) The Ages of Wonder Woman, McFarland and Company.
Ormrod, J., 2012. 'In the Best Possible Tastes – Rhetoric and Taste in AIP’s Promotion of Roger Corman’s Poe Cycle'. In Dennis Perry and Carl Sederholm (eds.) Adapting Poe: Re-imagings in Popular Culture, Palgrave Macmillan.
Ormrod, J., 2011. '• 'Pa/trolling the Borders of the Federal Vampire and Zombie Agency Website: Realism, Gender, Authenticity','. In Gareth Schott & Kirstine Moffat (eds.) Fanpires: Audience Consumption of the Modern Vampire in Fanpires: Audience Consumption of the Modern Vampire,, 3, 33-54, Washington DC: New Academia Press.
Ormrod, J., 2004. 'Middle class pleasures and the safe/dangers of surf bathing on the English South Coast 1921 -1937'. In Eileen Kennedy and Andrew Thornton (eds.) Leisure, Media and Visual Culture: Representations and Contestations (LSA Publication No. 83), Leisure Studies Association.
- Internet Publications
Ormrod, J., 2005. ''Just the lemon next to the pie': Apocalypse, History and the Limits of Myth in Big Wednesday (1978)', Scope Online Journal of Film Studies, http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/film/journal/.
Ormrod, J., 2002. 'Issues of Gender in Muscle Beach Party (1964)', Scope Online Journal of Film Studies, http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/film/journal/.
- Journal Articles
Ormrod, J., 2008. 'Surfing and the Artistic Debate in the 1960s–1970s', Kurungabaa: a journal of literature, history and ideas for surfers, 1:1, Online journal.
Ormrod, J., 2007. 'Surf Rhetoric in American and British Surfing Magazines Between 1965 and 1976.', Sport in History, v27, n.1, March 2007, 88-109.
Ormrod, J., 2005. ''Endless Summer (1964): Consuming Waves and Surfing the Frontier'', Film and History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies, Vol 35, No 1, pp.39-51.
- Presentations
Ormrod, J., 2012. 'Reading production and culture in UK romance comics 1955-63: Consumerism, pop stars and lucky guitars', Qualitative Methods Panel, British Psychological Society, London, 18th-20th April, 2012.
Ormrod, J., 2010. 'Consuming Bodies in Wonder Woman Good Girls, Bad Girls and Macho Men', British IBBY/NCRCL Conference, Leeds Art Gallery, November 2010.
Ormrod, J., 2010. 'Issues of Time, Space and Duration in Richard McGuire’s ‘Here’', Conference of Comics and Graphic Novels, Manchester Metropolitan University, 23rd April 2010.
Ormrod, J., 2010. 'Negotiating Local Identities in 1970s Surf Films: Practice, Production, Embodiment', Youth Studies, British Sociological Association, Reading University, November 2010.
Canniford, R., and Ormrod, J., 2007. 'Surf Soundtracks', European Association for Consumer Research Conference, University of Bocconi Milan, 11-14 July 2007, in TBA.
Ormrod, J., 2006. 'From Surf Bums to Silver Surfers: age, location and subcultural identities', Researching Youth Sport Conference, Loughborough University, 20th September, 2006, in Edited book forthcoming..
Ormrod, J., 2006. 'Hippie Rhetoric in British Surfing of the 1970s: Risk, Edgework and the Aesthetic Impulse', Social History Society Annual Conference, University of Reading, 31st March-2nd April, 2006.
Ormrod, J., 2006. 'The Crystal Voyager (1973) Myth, Rhetoric, Sports', Film and History Biennial Conference: Documentary, Dallas, Texas, 6th-12th November, 2006.
Ormrod, J., 2006. '‘Wild Men who Run with Wolves’ – Masquerade, Disguise and Transformation in Brotherhood of the Wolf', European Nightmares, Manchester Metrpolitan University, June 1-3, 2006, in Forthcoming edited book..
Ormrod, J., 2005. 'Expressions of National Identity in British Surfing 1966-1980', British Society of Sport History, University of Glamorgan, 31st July-2nd September 2005.
Ormrod, J., 2004. 'Surfing the Zeitgeist:: Hippie Rhetoric in a British Surfing Magazine of the early 1970s.', Leisure Studies Association, University of Leeds, July 14th 2004.
Ormrod, J., 2003. ''You Should Have Been Here the Day Before Yesterday': Representations of English surfing in the holiday and leisure industries 1924-1937', Leisure Studies Association, University of Sussex, Roehampton, July 2003.