David Sweeney
David Sweeney
- Lecturer
- ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0767-8853- Job Title
- Lecturer
- D.Sweeney@gsa.ac.uk
Biography
I am the author of three books, Scanned Clean: (Re)Reading the Novels of Michael Marshall Smith in the Digital Age (Subterranean Press, 2022) and The OA, a critical study of the Netflix Originals TV series (Auteur/LUP, 2022), and The Films of Nicolas Winding Refn: Genre, Gender, Glamour (LUP, 2024). I am currently working on a monograph about the film director Ben Wheatley for Palgrave Macmillan.
I have contributed chapters to the books on the directors David Lynch and Mike Leigh and the publisher Marvel Comics as well as article to journal issues on Folk Horror, Lynch and Marvel.
I have presented conference papers in the UK, US and Canada on various aspects of popular culture including digital comic books; set design in the tv series Inside No. 9; superhero costume design; Folk Horror, mysticism and environmentalism; digital broadcasting and National Theatre Live; and Augmented Reality Games and the TV series Hellier.
Latest Additions
- Sweeney, David (2025) 'La Mise-en-scène de la Masculinité dans La Trilogie Pusher'. French 4K DVD/Blu Ray boxset of Nicolas Winding Refn's Pusher trilogy.
- Sweeney, David (2025) 'With a spaceship at the end': Genre Hybridity in Copenhagen Cowboy by Nicolas Winding Refn. Journal of European Popular Culture, 15 (2). pp. 137-151. ISSN 2040-6134
- Sweeney, David (2024) Past and Possible Lives in Inland Empire. In: A Critical Companion to David Lynch. Critical Companions to Contemporary Directors . Bloomsbury [Lexington Press imprint]. ISBN 978-1-66692-810-5 (Hardback); 978-1-66692-811-2 (eBook)
- Sweeney, David (2024) Pushing Too Hard: The Performance of Masculinity in the Pusher Trilogy. The Pusher Trilogy [booklet for the Blu Ray/DVD 4K boxset].
- Sweeney, David (2023) "Out of the dust": Folk Horror and the Urban Wyrd in 'Too Old To Die Young' and Other Works by Nicolas Winding Refn. In: The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror. Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, UK. ISBN 9781032042831
- Sweeney, David (2023) The Films of Nicolas Winding Refn: Genre, Gender, Glamour. Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, UK. ISBN 9781802074581 (Hardcover); eISBN:9781802075502 (PDF); eISBN:9781835532775 (ePub)
- Sweeney, David (2022) The OA. Constellations . Auteur Books / Liverpool University Press, UK. ISBN Hardback: 978-1-800-85942-5; eBook: 9781800858565; Paperback: 9781800859432
- Sweeney, David (2022) “Out of the dust”: Folk Horror and the Urban Wyrd in Too Old To Die Young and Other Works by Nicolas Winding Refn. In: The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror. Routledge, Oxfordshire, UK.
- Sweeney, David (2021) 'Singer'; 'Girl Singer'; 'Roadhouse Singer'; 'Herself' Julee Cruise in the World of Twin Peaks. In: Music in Twin Peaks: Listen to the Sounds. Routledge Music and Screen Media Series . Routledge, New York, NY/Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 91-103. ISBN 9780367423131
- Sweeney, David (2020) "To exist is to survive unfair choices": "Tribal Ontology" in the Netflix Originals Series The OA. The Comparatist, 44. pp. 115-134. ISSN 0195-7678
