Edgar, Professor Robert

• Professor of Writing and Popular Culture
• School of Humanities

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Article

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605, Mann, Fraser and Pleasance, Helen (2019) Music, Memory and Memoir: Critical and creative engagement with an emerging genre. Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 12 (1-2). pp. 181-199.

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2003) 'If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.' Oren Stern, Bill Shankly and Funeral at Parc de France. POV (15).

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (1995) The Nature of Survival in the 21st Century: The Survival of Concern in 1995: John Brunner's "The Long Result" (1965) and "Stand On Zanzibar" (1968). Vector.

Book Section

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2024) “Mohawk this guy”: New York Wyrd. In: American Folk Horror. University of Wales Press (In Press)

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2024) ‘If a bunch of ‘em tell you, it must be true.’: Lonely Boy, The Sex Pistols and Adaption. In: The Routledge Companion to the Sex Pistols. Routledge (Submitted)

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2024) Monitoring as developmental practice in the supervision of PhD students. In: Innovative Approaches to Doctoral Supervision: Selected Case Studies. Edward Elgar (In Press)

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2024) Graphically Speaking: CUD, Graphic Memoir, Indie Authenticity, and Autofiction. In: Popular Music Autobiographies: Rereading Musicians And Their Audiences. Bloomsbury (In Press)

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 and Marland, John (2024) The Edwardian Legacy: Adaptation and Children's Fiction. In: Horrifying Children: Hauntology and the Legacy of Children's television. Bloomsbury

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2023) Hinterlands and SPAs: Folk Horror and Neoliberal Desolation. In: Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 and Johnson, Wayne, (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror. Routledge

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2023) Chatting with Jarvis. In: Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605, Mann, Fraser and Pleasance, Helen, (eds.) Venue Stories From Backroom to Rave Room, from the Toilet Circuit to the Town Hall. Equinox, pp. 40-50

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2021) Horrifying Tales: An Anthology - Introduction. In: Horrifying Tales. Greenteeth Press

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2019) Lonely This Christmas. In: Christmas Horror Stories from Horrified. Horrified Magazine

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2019) Hiatus: Music, memory and liminal authenticity. In: Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605, Mann, Fraser and Pleasance, Helen, (eds.) Music, Memory and Memoir. London, Bloomsbury, pp. 13-24

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2019) The Driver. In: King, Liesl and Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605, (eds.) Science Fiction for Survival. Valley Press

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2019) Slippery Customers. In: King, Liesl and Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605, (eds.) Science Fiction for Survival. Valley Press

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2017) The Aesthetics of the Arena: Live and Recorded. In: The Screen Media Reader Culture, Theory, Practice. Bloomsbury, pp. 421-434

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2016) The Aesthetics of the Arena: Live and Recorded. In: The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment. Bloomsbury, pp. 193-216

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 and Shelton, Julia (2016) Rocking around Watford: Trying to find what I was looking for. In: The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment. Bloomsbury, pp. 181-192

Conference or Workshop Item

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2023) Folk Horror. In: Leeds Salon, 21st June 2023, Carriageworks Leeds. (Unpublished)

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 and Smith, Alan (2023) Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition: Darkness in the Fields 2. In: Darkness in the Fields 2, 23/06/23, Online. (Unpublished)

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2023) Unsuitable for Miners: Trauma in contemporary British mining narratives. In: Haunted Landscapes, 4-6 July 2023, Falmouth University. (Unpublished)

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605, Marland, John and Smith, Alan (2022) Gothic Wessex - Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition. In: Hardy and Gothic Wessex, 28-30th October 2022, Dorchester. (Unpublished)

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2022) Chatting With Jarvis - Venue Stories and Music Memoir. In: IASPM Conference, 26-28th May 2022, University of Michigan. (In Press)

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2021) Venue Stories: music venues as creative, transformative territories. In: Bodies Territories Touch 8th International Conference of Autoethnography, 18-20th July 2021, Online. (Submitted)

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2021) Teaching Satire: Death of Stalin. In: English Shared Futures, 7-8th July 2022, Manchester University. (In Press)

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605, Mann, Fraser and Pleasance, Helen (2018) Music, Memory and Memoir – an emerging genre. In: Subculture Network, University of Reading.

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2018) Woody Allen Schlemiel: Programmed for Subjugation. In: Men Writing Women: Women in the Work of Woody Allen and Beyond, York St John University.

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2017) Hiatus: Music, Memory and Liminal Authenticity. In: Storying the Self, Brighton University.

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2016) Creativity, Practice and Praxis. In: IASPM Conference, BIMM Brighton.

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2016) The Arena Concert: Live and Recorded. In: Salford Postgraduate Workshop, June 2016, Salford University.

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2014) Theorising Practice and Writing for Education. In: Staff and Postgraduate Lecture Series, Salford University.

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2011) Narrative Tropes in Hitchcock. In: Partners in Suspense: Hitchcock and Hermann, March 2011, York St John University.

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2006) Will Hay - Ealing Originator. In: Ealing Conference, November 2006, University of Hull.

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (1998) 'Go Baby Go: the Primal Scream of the American Underground. In: Faces of Conference, June 1998, York St John University.

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (1997) The Schlemiel as Contemporary Icon. In: The Open University Research Conference.

Book

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605, Johnson, Wayne and Marland, John (2024) Alan Garner and the Work of Time. Manchester University Press (In Press)

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605, Stephenson, Lauren ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2646-0043 and Marland, John (2024) Horrifying Children: Hauntology and the Legacy of Children's Television. Bloomsbury

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 and Johnson, Wayne (2023) The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror. Routledge

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605, Mann, Fraser and Pleasance, Helen (2023) Venue Stories From Backroom to Rave Room, from the Toilet Circuit to the Town Hall. Equinox

Smith, Alan, Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 and Marland, John (2023) Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition. Bloomsbury

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 and Marland, John (2019) Adaptation for Scriptwriters. Bloomsbury

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 and King, Liesl (2019) Science fiction for survival. Scarborough, Valley Press

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605, Mann, Fraser and Pleasance, Helen (2019) Music, Memory and Memoir. London, Bloomsbury

Halligan, Benjamin, Fairclough-Issacs, Kirsty, Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 and Spelman, Nicola (2015) The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment. New York, Bloomsbury

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605, Marland, John and Rawle, Steven ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7908-8249 (2015) The Language of Film. 2nd ed. Basics filmmaking . London, Bloomsbury

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605, Fairclough-Isaacs, Kirsty and Halligan, Benjamin, eds. (2013) The Music Documentary: Acid Rock to Electropop. Routledge

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2009) Basics Film-Making 03: Directing Fiction. 1st ed. London, Bloomsbury

Richards, James, Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 and Marland, John (2009) Basics Film-Making 02: Screenwriting. 1st ed. Bloomsbury

Other

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2022) British folk horror, hauntology and the terrifying nature of the ordinary. The Conversation.

Edgar, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3483-8605 (2016) Beast. Online. (Submitted)