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Sheppard, Daniel (2024) Gays, Women, and Chainsaws: Queer Approaches to Characterisation and Identification in Contemporary Slasher Film and Television, 1996-2019. Doctoral thesis, Birmingham City University.

Mercer, John and Light, Ben and Hakim, Jamie and Moore, Karenza and Garwood-Cross, Lisa and Katz, Rachel and Hinds, Rachel and Upton, Mika (2023) The Covid Sex Lives Project: Health Messaging, Hooking Up And Dating Among Men Who Have Sex With Men During The UK COVID-19 Pandemic. Project Report. University of Salford.

Wilson, Sean Elder (2023) A Study of Queer Affect and Relation in Curatorial Practice and Writing. Doctoral thesis, Birmingham City University.

Colliver, Ben and Jamel, Joanna (2023) Internalised Homophobia or Externalised Transphobia: Violence Against Transgender Women in a Sexual or Romantic Context. In: Toxic Masculinity: Men, Meaning & Digital Media. Routledge.

Mercer, John and Sarson, Charlie (2020) Fifteen Seconds of Fame: Rupaul’s Drag Race, Camp, and ‘Memeability’. Celebrity Studies. ISSN 1939-2397

Mercer, John and Sarson, Charlie and Hakim, Jamie (2020) “Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve and Talent”: RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Cultural Politics of Fame. Celebrity Studies. ISSN 1939-2397

Mercer, John and Attwood, Feona (2018) The Metrosexual: Figures of Masculinity. In: Routledge Companion Media, Sex and Sexuality. Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions . Routledge, London, UK, pp. 343-351. ISBN 9781138777217

Mercer, John (2018) Sex positivity and the persistence of shame. Sexualities, 21 (8). pp. 1304-1307. ISSN 1363-4607

Igwe, Ezinne (2018) Formalizing Nollywood: Gentrification in the Contemporary Nigerian Film Industry. Doctoral thesis, Birmingham City University.

Mercer, John (2017) The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name: O Fanstasma and Erotomania. In: Tainted Love: Screening Sexual Perversion. I. B. Tauris, London, UK, pp. 32-46. ISBN 9781780761961

Mercer, John (2017) Popperbate: video collage, vernacular creativity and the scripting of the gay pornographic body. Porn Studies, 4 (2). pp. 242-256. ISSN 2326-8743

Mercer, John (2017) Gay Pornography: Representations of Masculinity and Sexuality. Other. I. B. Tauris, London, UK.

O'Connor, Jane and Mercer, John (2017) Childhood and Celebrity. Routledge, London. ISBN 9781138855274

Davies, Faye Patricia (2016) What promotional and textual discourses are constructed over the production lifecycle of ‘The L Word’ and how do audiences respond to producer decisions within such discursive constructions? Doctoral thesis, Birmingham City University.

Mercer, John (2015) Rock Hudson: Star Studies. Other. BFI Publishing, London, UK.

Mercer, John (2014) The Secret History: Porn Archives, Personal Collections and British Universities. Porn Studies, 1 (4). pp. 411-415. ISSN 2326-8743

Mercer, John and Jeffers-McDonald, Tamar (2014) DVD audio commentary for All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk, USA, 1955). [Video]

Mercer, John (2013) Introduction: Sex and the celebrity. Celebrity Studies, 4 (1). pp. 1-3. ISSN 19392397 (ISSN)

Mercer, John (2013) The enigma of the male sex symbol. Celebrity Studies, 4 (1). pp. 81-91. ISSN 1939-2397

Mercer, John (2012) Coming of age: Problematizing gay porn and the eroticized older man. Journal of Gender Studies, 21 (3). pp. 313-326. ISSN 0958-9236

Mercer, John (2012) Power Bottom: Performativity in Commercial Gay Pornographic Video. In: Hard to Swallow: Hard-Core Pornography on Screen. Columbia University Press, pp. 215-228. ISBN 9780231162135

Mercer, John (2011) Gay for Pay: The Internet and the Economics of Homosexual Desire. In: The Handbook of Gender, Sex and Media. Handbooks in Communication and Media . John Wiley & Sons, Inc., pp. 535-551. ISBN 978-1-4443-3854-6