Article

O'Rourke, Chris (2022) Imagining British Film Beauty: Gender and National Identity in 1920s ‘Star Search’ Contests. Early Popular Visual Culture, 19 (4). pp. 342-363. ISSN 1746-0654

O'Rourke, Chris (2020) Exploiting Ambiguity: Murder! (1930) and the Meanings of Cross-Dressing in Interwar Britain. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 17 (3). pp. 289-312. ISSN 1743-4521

O'Rourke, Chris (2020) ‘What a Pretty Man – or Girl!’: Male Cross‐Dressing Performances in Early British Cinema, 1898–1918. Gender & History, 32 (1). pp. 86-107. ISSN 0953-5233

O'Rourke, Chris (2016) Soho's silent cinemas. Soho Clarion . p. 20. ISSN .

O'Rourke, Chris (2015) 'Afterwards to see a cinema show': The diary of a London cinema-goer in 1915. Early Popular Visual Culture, 13 (1). pp. 66-82. ISSN 1746-0654

O'Rourke, Chris (2014) 'On the first rung of the ladder of fame': Would-be cinema stars in silent-era Britain. Film History: An International Journal, 26 (3). pp. 84-105. ISSN 0892-2160

O'Rourke, Chris (2011) How to become a bioscope model: transition, mediation and the language of film performance. Early Popular Visual Culture, 11 (3). pp. 191-201. ISSN 1746-0654

Review

O'Rourke, Chris (2019) Main Street Movies: The History of Local Film in the United States. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television . ISSN 0143-9685

O'Rourke, Chris (2018) Mary R. Desjardins, Recycled Stars: Female Film Stardom in the Age of Television and Video. Gender and History, 30 (2). pp. 542-543. ISSN 1468-0424

O'Rourke, Chris (2014) Early cinema today: The art of programming and live performance [Martin Loiperdinger (ed.), New Barnet: Libbey, 2011]. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 34 (2). pp. 316-317. ISSN 0143-9685

Book Section

O'Rourke, Chris (2021) “Boyish” Women and Female Soldiers: British Gender Disguise Comedies between the World Wars. In: The Routledge Companion to European Cinema. Routledge, pp. 285-293. ISBN 9780367461850

Hirsch, Pam and O'Rourke, Chris (2017) Introduction: Film Londons. In: London on film. Screening Spaces . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 1-13. ISBN 9783319649795

O'Rourke, Chris (2017) Queer London on film: Victim (1961), The Killing of Sister George (1968) and Nighthawks (1978). In: London on Film. Screening Spaces . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 117-131. ISBN 9783319649795

O'Rourke, Chris (2014) The municipal plunge: silent cinema and the social life of swimming pools. In: The Cinema of the Swimming Pool. New studies in European cinema . Peter Lang, Oxford, pp. 21-36. ISBN 9783035398076, 9783034317832

O'Rourke, Chris (2014) In the flesh: personal appearances and the picture personality in Britain. In: Performing New Media, 1890-1915. John Libbey Publishing, pp. 67-75. ISBN 9780861967148

Trotter, David and O'Rourke, Chris (2011) Cinema re-mystified: A. S. Appelbee's technological ghost story. In: Reading the Cinematograph: The Cinema in British Short Fiction, 1896-1912. Exeter Studies in Film History . University of Exeter Press, Exeter, pp. 46-57. ISBN 9780859898539, 9780859898546

Book or Monograph

Hirsch, Pam and O'Rourke, Chris, eds. (2017) London on film. Screening Spaces . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 9783319649795

O'Rourke, Chris (2017) Acting for the silent screen: film actors and aspiration between the wars. Cinema and Society . I.B.Tauris, London. ISBN 9781784532796

Other

O'Rourke, Chris and Nightingale, Sam (2015) London's Silent Cinemas. University College London.