探花直播

• Amateur/informal cultural production听
• Pornography studies
• Entrepreneurship
• Home video distribution
• Media regulation and censorship
• Media piracy
• Documentary production
• New technologies
• Screen audiences
• Researcher development
• Doctoral education

• 2005 - 2013: PhD, Making European Cult Cinema: Fan Production in an Alternative Economy, 探花直播 School of Media, 探花直播.
• 2009 - 2010: PGCert, Teaching in Higher Education, Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, 探花直播.
• 2006 - 2007: PGCert, Research Practice, 探花直播 Institute of Art and Design, University of Central England.

2018 - Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

2018 - The Erotic Film Society

2017 - The Campaign Against Censorship

2017 - Society for Cinema and Media Studies

2016 - Vitae

2016 - European Communication Research and Education Association

2007 - Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association

• During his time at 探花直播, Oliver has developed and convened a number of modules across all levels of HE study, such as Popular Culture, Creativity in the Media, Documentary Theory and Practice, Media Culture, and Fandom, Subcultures and Cult Media. He convened the MA module Online Enterprise and Innovation and is currently the Site Director for the Midlands4Cities AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership. He supervises a range of PhD students, studying areas such as music piracy, independent film distribution, the informal Ukranian screen media economy, fan vidding and the economics of hyperlocal journalism.

The unifying focus of听Oliver's research has become an interrogation of the cultural and economic practices that relate to marginal media texts, and how they result in the creation of alternative economies. Through innovative research methods,听he investigates how such economies operate, considering how people empower themselves through the use of technologies, disrupting markets, and economically benefiting from their practices. His research is especially concerned with the ways in which these economies develop over a period of time, and the ways in which they bridge the borders of legality and illegality.

Oliver's听current research focuses on the cultural and economic history of the British adult entertainment business, specifically focusing on those who were involved in producing and distributing films between the period of 1960 and 2000, when the distribution of hardcore pornography in the UK was prohibited.听He has become increasingly interested in how pornography, as a popular commodity, has been traded transnationally.听

• 2016 - 2024: Defining the semi-professional: An investigation into the practices and experiences of independent local news journalists, Ross Hawkes, PT.
• 2017 - 2023: The Role of New Interactive Technologies in Independent Film Distribution, Frank Mannion, PT.
• 2019 - 2023: Regulatory Annexation and the Matrix of Dependence: The Regulation of Social Media in Nigeria, Vincent Obia, FT (Commonwealth Scholar)
• 2019 - 2023: Media Law, Freedom of Expression and of the Press: The Case of The Gambia, Sulayman Bah, FT.
• 2020 - 2023 : The Informal Screen Media Economy of Ukraine, Kate Sivak, FT.
• 2016 - 2022: The Cultural Value of the Book in the Digital Age, Christian Moerken, PT
• 2016 - 2022: 鈥淎ll The Feels!鈥�: Music, Affect and Critique in Fanmade Music Videos, Sebastian F. K. Svegaard, PT.
• 2019 - 2020: The Creation of Creativity in Radio: How Does Radio as an Industry Define, Practice and Negotiate Creativity?, Emily Bettison, FT (AHRC M4C award).
• 2015 - 2018: Anatomy of a Documentary: Music Documentary Production Practices for Commercial Radio, Samuel Coley, PT.
• 2015 - 2018: Formalizing Nollywood: Gentrification in the Contemporary Nigerian Film Industry, Ezinne Igwe, FT.
• 2014 - 2016: Reporting Violence or Mediating Peace: The Nigerian Press and the Dilemma of Peace Building in a Democracy, Jacob Tsado, FT.
• 2018 - :听 The Cultural Translation of Yoga Practices in the UK During the 20th Century, Simon Crisp, PT.
• 2022 - :听 Tails to Tell: The furry fandom, safe online spaces, and identity, Reuben Mount, FT.
• 2023 - :听 Co-creating Regenerative Futures, The role of architectural and social lab processes in communities shaping their civic and social infrastructures, Holly Doron, FT (M4C CDA).
• 2023 - :听 Six-second cinema: Tracing film language in post-cinema social media, Joel Blackledge, FT (AHRC M4C award).

Selected publications

2024

• Book chapter, 鈥橧f You鈥檙e Feeling Blue: The Screening of Hardcore Pornography in Britain鈥� in Kerr, D. and Peberdy, D. (Eds) Screening Sex: The Sex Scene - Space, Place and Industry, Edinburgh University Press (forthcoming).
• Book chapter, 鈥楾ruth or Dare鈥� in听 Alilunas, P., Embree, D. And Freibert, F. (Eds) Screening Adult Cinema, Routledge (forthcoming).
• Book chapter, 鈥橳he Porn-Brokers - Transnational Entrepreneurship in Western Europe鈥檚 Pornography Trade鈥� in Alilunas, P., Keilty, P., Mini, D. (Eds), Handbook of Adult Film and Media, Intellect/University of Chicago Press (forthcoming).

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• Journal article, 鈥楶ure Cheek: The Ben Dover Story鈥�, Porn Studies, (open access).
• Book chapter, 鈥業nvestigating the Illicit: The material traces of Britain鈥檚 early trade in obscene 8mm films鈥� in Carter, O and Taylor, I (Eds) Media Materialities 鈥� Form, Format & Ephemeral Meaning, Intellect/University of Chicago Press.
• Edited collection, Media Materialities 鈥� Form, Format & Ephemeral Meaning (co-edited with Iain Taylor), Intellect/University of Chicago Press.
• Research article, 鈥楶ornophobia鈥�: Lord Porn and the fall of Britain鈥檚 domestic pornography trade, Porn Studies, (open access).
• Monograph, Under the Counter: Britain鈥檚 Trade in Hardcore Pornographic 8mm Films, Intellect/University of Chicago Press.

2022

• Journal article, 鈥楽atisfaction Guaranteed: Your Choice and the Transnational Distribution of Hardcore Pornography Between the Netherlands and Britain', Enterprise and Society (open access), .
• Journal special edition, 鈥楪olden Ages? Media, Space and Transnationality鈥櫶�(co-edited with Professor Mariah Larsson and Professor Tommy Gustafsson), Porn Studies, .

2021

• Journal article, 鈥楾he Watford Blue Movie Trial: Regulating 鈥楻ollers鈥� in 1970s Britain', Porn Studies, 听听听听听听听听听听听听听

2018

• Journal article, Original Climax Films: Historicising the British Hardcore Pornography Film Business, Porn Studies, .
• Monograph, Making European Cult Cinema: Fan Enterprise in an Alternative Economy, Amsterdam University Press.

2017

• Book chapter, 鈥楾he Dragon Lives Again: Distributing 鈥楤ruceploitation鈥� via Home Entertainment鈥� (co-authored with Simon Barber) in Wroot, J and Willis, A (Eds.) Cult Media: Re-packaged, Re-released and Restored, Palgrave Macmillan.
• Book chapter, 鈥楢 Labour of Love: Fantrepreneurship in Home Video Media Distribution鈥�, in Wroot, J and Willis, A (Eds) Watching Films at Home: Formats, Challenges and Practices in Distributing Domestic Media, Palgrave Macmillan.

2015

• Book chapter, 鈥樷�淭hey鈥檙e not pirates, they鈥檙e archivists鈥�: The role of fans as curators and archivists of popular culture heritage鈥� (co-authored with Jez Collins) in Baker, S (Ed.) Preserving Popular Music Heritage: Do-It-Yourself, Do-It-Together, Routledge.

2013

• Book chapter, 鈥楽ound and Vision: Radio Documentary, Fandom and New Participatory Cultures鈥�, (co-authored with Sam Coley) in Edgar, Fairclough-Isaacs, K. and Halligan, B. (Eds.) The Music Documentary, Routledge.
• Book chapter, 鈥楽haring All鈥橧taliana. Riproduzione e distribuzione del genere I sui siti Torrent鈥� (English Title: Sharing All鈥橧taliana - The Reproduction and Distribution of the giallo on Torrent File-Sharing Websites) in Braga, R. and Caruso, G. (Eds.) The Piracy Effect, Mimesis Cinergie.
• Book chapter, 鈥楽lash Production鈥�: Objectifying the Serial 鈥楰iler鈥� in Euro-Cult Cinema Fan Production鈥� in MacDonald, A. (Ed) Murders and Acquisitions: Representations of the Serial Killer in Popular Culture, Bloomsbury.

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2023

• Interviewee, How Britain Became One of the World's Biggest Distributors of Illegal Porn, Huck, 26 May.听听听听听听听听听
• Interviewee, The Soho Society Hour, Soho Radio, 11 May.
• Interviewee, Adult Site Broker, Podcast, 27 June.
• Interviewee, Rock and rollers: Britain鈥檚 other, seedier film history, Prospect, 1 March.

2022

• Author, Why age verification is another flawed attempt to regulate online pornography in the听UK, The Conversation, 10 February.

2020

• Interviewee, Meet the king of homemade porn 鈥� a banker鈥檚 son making millions, The Sunday Times, 26 July.
• Interviewee, Coronavirus is bad news for Big Porn but great news for OnlyFans, Wired Magazine, May 4.

2019

• TV interviewee, Neues von der Brexit insel, Arte TV, 8 July, Germany.
• Interviewee, Da pornoen blev smuglet i bacon-containere [When porn was smuggled in bacon containers], Ekstra Bladet, 7 June, Denmark.

2017

• Interviewee, How London beat The Deuce: meet the blue movie pioneers who sexed up Seventies Britain, Daily Telegraph, 26 September.