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Article

Wills, John (2018) Exploding the 1950s Consumer Dream: Mannequins and Mushroom Clouds at Doom Town, Nevada Test Site. Pacific Historical Review, . ISSN 0030-8684. (In press) (Access to this publication is currently restricted. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)
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Wills, John (2008) "Pixel Cowboys and Silicon Goldmines: Videogames of the American West". Pacific Historical Review, 77 (2). pp. 273-303. ISSN 0030-8684. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2008.77.2.273) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Wills, John (2006) Brighty, donkeys and conservation in the Grand Canyon. Endeavour, 30 (3). pp. 113-117. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.endeavour.2006.07.002) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Wills, John (2006) Celluloid Chain Reactions: The China Syndrome and Three Mile Island. European Journal of American Culture, 25 (2). pp. 109-122. ISSN 1466-0407. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1386/ejac.25.2.109/1) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Wills, John (2003) Abalone, Rattlesnakes and Kilowatt Monsters: Nature and the Atom at Diablo Canyon, California. Cultural Geographies, 10 (2). pp. 149-175. ISSN 1474-4740. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Wills, John (2003) 'On Burro'd Time': Burros of the Grand Canyon and the Pursuit of Undying Wilderness. Journal of Arizona History, 44 (1). pp. 1-24. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Wills, John (2002) "Digital Dinosaurs and Artificial Life: Exploring the Culture of Nature in Computer and Videogames". Cultural Values, 6 (4). pp. 395-418. ISSN 1362-5179. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Wills, John (2001) 'Welcome to the Atomic Park': American Nuclear Landscapes and the 'Unnaturally Natural'. Environment and History, 7 (4). pp. 449-472. ISSN 0967-3407. (doi:https://doi.org/10.3197/096734001129342559) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Wills, John (2000) Talking Atoms: Anti-Nuclear Protest at Diablo Canyon, California. Oral History, 28 (2). ISSN 1533-8592. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Book section

Wills, John (2015) Wagon Train to the Stars’: Star Trek, the Frontier and America. In: Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek The Original Cast Adventures. Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland. ISBN 978-1-4422-4987-5. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Wills, John (2015) Firefly and the Space Western: Frontier Fiction on Fast-Forward. In: Goodrum, Michael and Smith, Philip, eds. Firefly Revisited: Essays on Joss Whedon's Classic Series. Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland. ISBN 978-1-4422-4743-7. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Wills, John (2014) Nature writes the screenplays’: Felix Salten and Disney Nature in Bambi (1942), Perri (1957) and The Shaggy Dog (1959). In: Merlock Jackson, Kathy and West, Mark I., eds. Walt Disney and His Narratives: From Reader to Storyteller. McFarland & Co Inc, Jefferson, North Carolina. ISBN 978-0-7864-7232-1. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Wills, John (2010) ‘Welcome to the Atomic Park’: American Nuclear Landscapes and the ‘Unnaturally Natural’. In: Landscapes: Themes in Environmental History. White Horse Press. ISBN 978-1-874267-60-7. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Wills, John (2008) America and the Environment. In: Halliwell, Martin and Morley, Catherine, eds. American Thought and Culture in the 21st Century. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 195-210. ISBN 978-0-7486-2602-1. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Conference or workshop item

Wills, John (2017) 'You have died of dysentery': Oregon Trail the video game and the Western Endeavor. In: British Association for American Studies Annual Conference, 6 April 2017, Canterbury Christ Church University. (Unpublished) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Wills, John (2017) Missile Command: Representations of the Cold War in Videogames. In: Historians Of The Twentieth Century US, Winter Symposium: War and Conflict in Twentieth Century US Society and Culture, 18 February 2017, British Library. (Submitted) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Wills, John (2017) Doom Town I and II: Experiments in Cold War Suburbia. In: Cold War Geographies Symposium, 16 January 2017. (Submitted) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Wills, John (2014) “’Ronnie Raygun Targets Your Country for Destruction': Playing Nuclear War”. In: Radical Readings/Radical Texts Symposium,, March 2014, Canterbury Christ Church University. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Wills, John (2013) “The Ghost Towns of Ground Zero: Commemorating the Atomic Frontier". In: Memory and Restitution Conference, July 2013, University of Westminster. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Wills, John (2013) “Researching Rachel Carson”. In: Silent Spring: Chemical, Biological and Technological Visions of the Environment Workshop, Birkbeck. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Wills, John (2013) “Playing on the Frontier: Western Theme Parks and Videogames”. In: Frontiers Conference, May 2013. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Wills, John (2013) “‘Bam! Shot Me!’: Videogames of the American West". In: American Studies seminar series, April 2013, University of Sussex. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Wills, John (2012) “Playing the Indian: The Arcade Western and New Frontier Avatars”. In: Native Studies Research Network Conference, September 2012, Senate House. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Wills, John (2011) “Pixel Cowboys and Frontier Rides: The Fantastical American West”. In: Staging Illusion: Digital and Cultural Fantasy Conference, December 2011, Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies, University of Sussex. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Wills, John (2011) “Film and Environment”. In: Engaging with Film: Perspectives on Cinematic Literacy Workshop, September 2011, University of Warwick. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Wills, John (2011) “The Gun that Won the Culture West”. In: Guns and Identity in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Conference, May 2011, University of Kent. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Wills, John (2010) “The Armageddon Experiment: Doom Town USA and the Nuking of Suburbia”. In: British Association for American Studies Conference, April 2010, University of East Anglia. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Book

Wills, John (2017) Disney Culture. Rutgers University Press, 168 pp. ISBN 978-0-8135-8332-7. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Wills, John (2012) US Environmental History: Inviting Doomsday. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 240 pp. ISBN 978-0-7486-2263-4. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Jones, Karen R. and Wills, John (2009) The American West: Competing Visions. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 320 pp. ISBN 978-0-7486-2252-8. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Wills, John (2006) Conservation Fallout: Nuclear Protest at Diablo Canyon. University of Nevada Press, Reno, NV, 256 pp. ISBN 978-0-87417-680-3. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Jones, Karen R. and Wills, John (2005) The Invention of the Park: From the Garden of Eden to Disney's Magic Kingdom. Polity, Cambridge, 216 pp. ISBN 0-7456-3138-X. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Thesis

Barker, Stuart J (2018) From Birdsong to Rotor Slap: The Sonic Experience of American National Parks. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) thesis, University of Kent,. (Full text available)
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Blower, Nicholas (2018) Outsiders in Red Rock Country: The Kaiparowits Project and the Reputation of American Environmentalism. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) thesis, University of Kent,. (Access to this publication is currently restricted. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)
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Barker, Stuart (2014) Through Oregon on High: The Construction and Consumption of Nature on the Oregon Skyline Trail. Master of Research (MRes) thesis, University of Kent,. (Access to this publication is currently restricted. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)
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Blower, Nicholas and Wills, John (2012) "Communicating wilderness : solitude and interdependence in the Sierra Club exhibit format series, 1960-1968". Master of Arts (MA) thesis, University of Kent. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Internet publication

Wills, John (2017) Library of Congress Film Essay: Bambi. . Library of Congress Online. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Wills, John (2017) Library of Congress Film Essay: Planet of the Apes. . Library of Congress Online. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Wills, John (2017) Library of Congress Film Essay: The Terminator. . Library of Congress Online. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Wills, John (2016) Deepwater Horizon is remarkably fossil fuel-friendly for an oil rig disaster film. . Online. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Wills, John (2016) Disney history: how has the corporation shaped our perception of the past? . Online. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Wills, John (2013) Historian at the Movies: Saving Mr. Banks reviewed. . Online. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

This list was generated on Sat May 25 09:56:55 2019 BST.