Items where Author, Editor or other role is "Wills, John"

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Beesley, Andrew (2020) Reconciling Conflict over Urban Public Space: Perceptions of Park Space in Seattle (c. 1960 to present). Master of Philosophy (MPhil) thesis, University of Kent,. (KAR id:81475)

Barker, Stuart J (2018) From Birdsong to Rotor Slap: The Sonic Experience of American National Parks. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) thesis, University of Kent,. (KAR id:69227)

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,. (KAR id:67662)

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,. (doi:10.22024/UniKent/01.02.47606) (Access to this publication is currently restricted. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:47606)

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) (KAR id:60655)

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Jones, Karen R., 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) (KAR id:30985)

Jones, Karen R., 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) (KAR id:4905)

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Quinn, Francesca Lucia (2023) Women and nature in contemporary indigenous women's poetry. Master of Arts by Research (MARes) thesis, University of Kent,. (doi:10.22024/UniKent/01.02.102360) (Access to this publication is currently restricted. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:102360)

Quinn, Eithne, Devienne, Elsa, Roane, J. T., Young, Alexis, Okoth, Christine, Wills, John, Henderson, Frances (2021) In Practice: Teaching Environmental American Studies in a Time of Crisis. Journal of American Studies, 55 (5). pp. 1263-1268. ISSN 0021-8758. (doi:10.1017/S0021875821001043) (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) (KAR id:101480)

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Smith, Edward Matthew Burrough (2021) More ghosts than people: The decline and deconstruction of the American Dream in contemporary videogames. Master of Arts by Research (MARes) thesis, University of Kent,. (doi:10.22024/UniKent/01.02.85604) (KAR id:85604)

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Wills, John (2023) Cartoon Century: Disney at 100. BBC History Magazine, 2023 (Dec). pp. 58-63. ISSN 1469-8552. (doi:NA) (KAR id:104024)

Wills, John (2023) Doom Town and Las Vegas: Fun and Fear on the Atomic Frontier Keynote. In: Frontiers and Wastelands: Redefining the Nation in US Popular Culture International Conference, 27-28 November 2023, Universidad de Alcala, Spain. (KAR id:104118)

Wills, John (2023) Mechanisms of Time in Video Game Westerns from Gun Fight to Red Dead Redemption 2. European Journal of American Culture, 42 (2-3). pp. 197-214. ISSN 1466-0407. (doi:DOI: 10.1386/ejac_00105_1) (KAR id:104023)

Wills, John (2023) Disneyland, Cartoon Atoms and Doom Town in the 1950s. In: Disney Culture and Society Research Network Annual Conference, June 26-30 2023, Online. (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) (KAR id:101676)

Wills, John (2023) GAmerica: Explorations of the Pixel Frontier. , April 2023, Studio 3, University of Kent. Interactive Gallery. (KAR id:101474)

Wills, John (2023) Sublime Reflection and Mundane Realism in Rockstar's Historic West. In: Wills, John and Wright, Esther, eds. Red Dead Redemption: History, Myth, and Violence in the Video Game West. Popular West . University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma, pp. 183-202. ISBN 978-0-8061-9192-8. (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) (KAR id:101476)

Weaver, Emily Michelle (2023) Imagineering America: Disney's View of the USA in its Theme Parks. Master of Arts by Research (MARes) thesis, University of Kent,. (doi:10.22024/UniKent/01.02.100839) (KAR id:100839)

Wills, John (2023) Sunset Riders, The Oregon Trail, Mad Dog McCree. In: Burnham, Van, ed. Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age 1985-2001. Diamond Comics/Dynamite Entertainment, Los Angeles, USA. ISBN 978-1-7379838-1-1. (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) (KAR id:101477)

Wills, John (2023) Doom Town, Nevada Test Site, and the Popular Imagination of Atomic Disaster. Journal of American Studies, . ISSN 0021-8758. E-ISSN 1469-5154. (doi:10.1017/S0021875823000105) (KAR id:99408)

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Wills, John (2022) Nostalgia for the Old West in Knott’s Berry Farm, Orange County, California. Comparative American Studies An International Journal, . ISSN 1741-2676. (doi:10.1080/14775700.2022.2143744) (KAR id:98165)

Wills, John (2022) GAmerica: Videogames of America. Rapture: Medway Gaming Festival, July 2022, Chatham Historic Dockyard. Interactive Gallery. (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) (KAR id:101473)

Wills, John (2022) Toontown Meets Doom Town: Connecting Disneyland, California and Survival Town, Nevada Test Site, in mid-1950s America. In: Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, 13-16 April 2022, USA online. (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) (KAR id:101675)

Wills, John (2021) "Ain't the American Dream Grand": Satirical Play in Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto V. European Journal of American Studies, 16 (3). Article Number 3. E-ISSN 1991-9336. (doi:10.4000/ejas.17274) (KAR id:91144)

Wills, John (2021) Red Dead Sublime: Image and Myth in the Video Game Western. In: Lonely are the Brave: The Western and Post-War America, June 2021, University of East Anglia. (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) (KAR id:101674)

Wills, John (2021) Showdown on the Pixel Frontier: Videogames and the American West Guest Lecture. In: Digital Americas Austrian Association for American Studies Annual Conference, April 2021, Online. (Unpublished) (KAR id:101673)

Wills, John (2021) Gaming American Studies: Video Games, Research and Teaching Roundtable. In: British Association of American Studies Annual Conference, April 2021, Online. (Unpublished) (KAR id:101672)

Wills, John (2021) "What is the Secret of Soylent Green": Using Richard Fleischer's Dystopian Movie in Environmental Teaching. In: British Association of American Studies Annual Conference, 6-11 April 2022, Online. (Unpublished) (KAR id:101817)

Wills, John (2020) Trauma, Memory and the 9/11 Video Game. In: International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG) 2020, 15-18 Sep 2020, Online. (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) (KAR id:84851)

Wills, John (2020) Library of Congress Film Essay: All That Heaven Allows (1955). . Internet. (KAR id:84848)

Wills, John (2019) Is Call of Duty Really Promoting Anti-Russian Propaganda? . Internet. (KAR id:80166)

Wills, John (2019) Gamer Nation: Video Games and American Culture. First Edition. Johns Hopkins University Press, 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-2870-3. (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) (KAR id:76528)

Wills, John (2019) Exploding the 1950s Consumer Dream: Mannequins and Mushroom Clouds at Doom Town, Nevada Test Site. Pacific Historical Review, 88 (3). pp. 410-438. ISSN 0030-8684. (doi:10.1525/phr.2019.88.3.410) (KAR id:66684)

Wills, John (2019) Cooking, Cleaning and Personal Hygiene: Why Video Games make you feel right at home. . Internet. (KAR id:80167)

Wills, John (2019) Visual Beauty, Mundane Realism and the American Everyday in Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption 2. In: British Association of American Studies Annual Conference, 2019, 25-27 Apr 2019, Brighton, UK. (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) (KAR id:84850)

Wills, John (2019) Library of Congress Film Essay: Atomic Cafe. . Library of Congress, 2 pp. Internet. (KAR id:84847)

Wills, John (2018) Fallout 76: The Lingering Appeal of the Post-Apocalypse. . Internet. (KAR id:80168)

Wills, John (2018) Red Dead Redemption 2: Can a Video Game be Too Realistic. . Internet. (KAR id:80169)

Wills, John (2018) Playing with History: History in Videogames. BBC World Histories magazine, 2018 (11). (KAR id:104119)

Wills, John (2018) How Has America Been Depicted in VideoGames? British Academy Summer Showcase Exhibit. British Academy Summer Showcase 2018, 21-23 June 2018, London. Exhibit. (KAR id:80172)

Wills, John (2018) Far Cry 5: Cults, Radicalism, and Why This Video Game Speaks to Today's Divided America. . Internet. (KAR id:80170)

Wills, John (2018) Missile Command and the American City. In: EBAAS 2018, 4-7 Apr 2018, London, UK. (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) (KAR id:84849)

Wills, John (2017) Snow White at 80: Disney May be Flawed, But We Are Still in Thrall to its Cartoon Magic. . Internet. (KAR id:80171)

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) (KAR id:60048)

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) (KAR id:58303)

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) (KAR id:60062)

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) (KAR id:60061)

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) (KAR id:60060)

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) (KAR id:58304)

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) (KAR id:58305)

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) (KAR id:50904)

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) (KAR id:50902)

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) (KAR id:50901)

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) (KAR id:60645)

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) (KAR id:58306)

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) (KAR id:60646)

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) (KAR id:60647)

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) (KAR id:60648)

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) (KAR id:60649)

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) (KAR id:60650)

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) (KAR id:31164)

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) (KAR id:60651)

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) (KAR id:60652)

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) (KAR id:60653)

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) (KAR id:50905)

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) (KAR id:60654)

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. (doi:10.3366/edinburgh/9780748626014.003.0013) (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) (KAR id:11346)

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: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) (KAR id:11347)

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) (KAR id:4055)

Wills, John (2006) Brighty, donkeys and conservation in the Grand Canyon. Endeavour, 30 (3). pp. 113-117. (doi: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) (KAR id:11354)

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: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) (KAR id:11352)

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. (doi:10.1191/1474474003eu268oa) (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) (KAR id:11355)

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) (KAR id:927)

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. (doi:10.1080/1362517022000047334) (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) (KAR id:11356)

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: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) (KAR id:926)

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) (KAR id:11359)