Professor Robert Shail is Director of Research in the School of Arts at Leeds Beckett University and is widely published in the areas of film and media, visual culture, gender studies, and the culture of childhood. This will be his fifth book as an editor, in addtion to four monographs and numerous book chapters and journal articles. His research has been recognised with an AHRC Fellowship and a Leverhulme Fellowship. Dr Steven Gerrard is Reader in Film, Northern Film School, School of Arts at Leeds Beckett University. He has published extensively in film, media, gender studies, horror and science fiction, British popularculture and visual culture. Steve has written two monographs; has co-edited seven collections; edited one collection as sole editor; and contributed chapters to all those plus three other collections. He has also written twelve chapters for populist publications.

• 1. Introduction by Steven Gerrard and Robert Shail.- 2. Billy’s Army Game: The Performative Role of the NCO by Keith Dando.- 3. Masculinity and Failure: The British Sitcom in the 1970s by Robert Shail.- 4. Richard O’Sullivan: A 1970s Man About the House by Mary Irwin.- 5. Good Times and God’s Business – The Fosters, Black British Masculinity, and Being Beyond Race by Peter Hughes Jachimiak.- 6. Reclaiming Mind Your Language (ITV, 1977-1979): Mocking White Masculinity in Post-Imperial Britain by Alex Symons.- 7. Men on the Inside: Masculinity in Porridge by Alix Burbridge.- 8. Stay-at-home Fatherhood in Motherland (2016-2022) by Rebecca Feasey.- 9. Clownish History: The White Clown in Blackadder by Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Eduardo Veteri.- 10. Welsh Masculinity in the British Sitcom by Steven Gerrard.- 11. Are We Not Men? The IT Crowd and ‘Geek’ Masculinity By Rebecca Johinke.- 12. Hello Martin: Ever Decreasing Circles, Ever Decreasing Manliness by Robert Hensley-King.- 13. “You Can Sort Your Life Out Anytime, the Pub Closes in Five Hours”: Absurdity and the ‘Man-child’ in Black Books. By Renée Middlemost.- 14. ‘Cringe Masculinities’ and Workplace Dynamics: An Analysis of The Office through the Lens of Cringe Humour by Deepthi Krishna Thota.- 15. God Bless Hooky Street – Only Fools and Horses, Del Boy, and the Enactment of Masculinity by Peter Hughes Jachimiak.

Professor Robert Shail is Director of Research in the School of Arts at Leeds Beckett University and is widely published in the areas of film and media, visual culture, gender studies, and the culture of childhood. This will be his fifth book as an editor, in addtion to four monographs and numerous book chapters and journal articles. His research has been recognised with an AHRC Fellowship and a Leverhulme Fellowship. Dr Steven Gerrard is Reader in Film, Northern Film School, School of Arts at Leeds Beckett University. He has published extensively in film, media, gender studies, horror and science fiction, British popularculture and visual culture. Steve has written two monographs; has co-edited seven collections; edited one collection as sole editor; and contributed chapters to all those plus three other collections. He has also written twelve chapters for populist publications.

• 1. Introduction by Steven Gerrard and Robert Shail.- 2. Billy’s Army Game: The Performative Role of the NCO by Keith Dando.- 3. Masculinity and Failure: The British Sitcom in the 1970s by Robert Shail.- 4. Richard O’Sullivan: A 1970s Man About the House by Mary Irwin.- 5. Good Times and God’s Business – The Fosters, Black British Masculinity, and Being Beyond Race by Peter Hughes Jachimiak.- 6. Reclaiming Mind Your Language (ITV, 1977-1979): Mocking White Masculinity in Post-Imperial Britain by Alex Symons.- 7. Men on the Inside: Masculinity in Porridge by Alix Burbridge.- 8. Stay-at-home Fatherhood in Motherland (2016-2022) by Rebecca Feasey.- 9. Clownish History: The White Clown in Blackadder by Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Eduardo Veteri.- 10. Welsh Masculinity in the British Sitcom by Steven Gerrard.- 11. Are We Not Men? The IT Crowd and ‘Geek’ Masculinity By Rebecca Johinke.- 12. Hello Martin: Ever Decreasing Circles, Ever Decreasing Manliness by Robert Hensley-King.- 13. “You Can Sort Your Life Out Anytime, the Pub Closes in Five Hours”: Absurdity and the ‘Man-child’ in Black Books. By Renée Middlemost.- 14. ‘Cringe Masculinities’ and Workplace Dynamics: An Analysis of The Office through the Lens of Cringe Humour by Deepthi Krishna Thota.- 15. God Bless Hooky Street – Only Fools and Horses, Del Boy, and the Enactment of Masculinity by Peter Hughes Jachimiak.

Professor Robert Shail is Director of Research in the School of Arts at Leeds Beckett University and is widely published in the areas of film and media, visual culture, gender studies, and the culture of childhood. This will be his fifth book as an editor, in addtion to four monographs and numerous book chapters and journal articles. His research has been recognised with an AHRC Fellowship and a Leverhulme Fellowship. Dr Steven Gerrard is Reader in Film, Northern Film School, School of Arts at Leeds Beckett University. He has published extensively in film, media, gender studies, horror and science fiction, British popularculture and visual culture. Steve has written two monographs; has co-edited seven collections; edited one collection as sole editor; and contributed chapters to all those plus three other collections. He has also written twelve chapters for populist publications.

• 1. Introduction by Steven Gerrard and Robert Shail.- 2. Billy’s Army Game: The Performative Role of the NCO by Keith Dando.- 3. Masculinity and Failure: The British Sitcom in the 1970s by Robert Shail.- 4. Richard O’Sullivan: A 1970s Man About the House by Mary Irwin.- 5. Good Times and God’s Business – The Fosters, Black British Masculinity, and Being Beyond Race by Peter Hughes Jachimiak.- 6. Reclaiming Mind Your Language (ITV, 1977-1979): Mocking White Masculinity in Post-Imperial Britain by Alex Symons.- 7. Men on the Inside: Masculinity in Porridge by Alix Burbridge.- 8. Stay-at-home Fatherhood in Motherland (2016-2022) by Rebecca Feasey.- 9. Clownish History: The White Clown in Blackadder by Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Eduardo Veteri.- 10. Welsh Masculinity in the British Sitcom by Steven Gerrard.- 11. Are We Not Men? The IT Crowd and ‘Geek’ Masculinity By Rebecca Johinke.- 12. Hello Martin: Ever Decreasing Circles, Ever Decreasing Manliness by Robert Hensley-King.- 13. “You Can Sort Your Life Out Anytime, the Pub Closes in Five Hours”: Absurdity and the ‘Man-child’ in Black Books. By Renée Middlemost.- 14. ‘Cringe Masculinities’ and Workplace Dynamics: An Analysis of The Office through the Lens of Cringe Humour by Deepthi Krishna Thota.- 15. God Bless Hooky Street – Only Fools and Horses, Del Boy, and the Enactment of Masculinity by Peter Hughes Jachimiak.