Hollywood Utopia: Ecology in Contemporary American Cinema. Bristol: Intellect Press. 2005.

Utopianism, alongside its more prevalent dystopian opposite, together with ecological study has become a magnet for interdisciplinary research and is used extensively to examine the most influential global medium of all time.

This book applies a range of interdisciplinary strategies to trace the evolution of ecological representations in Hollywood film from the 1950s to the present. Such a study has not been done on this scale before. Many popular science ficion, Westerns, nature and road movies are extensively analysed, while privileging particular ecological moments of sublime expression often dramatized in the closing moments of these films.

Contents include:

• Hollywood Utopia: Ecology and Contemporary American Cinema
• Nature Film and Ecology: Westerners, Landscape and Road Movies
• Conspiracy Thrillers and Science Fiction: 1950s to 1990s
• Postmodernist Science Fiction Films and Ecology

This book offers an intriguing and ambitious prospect: an attempt to unearth the emergence of an ecologically-based worldview pervading at least Western consciousness. The author adopts a Raymond Williams-style approach to this project, engaging in deep textual analysis of the Hollywood blockbuster with a view to identifying whether those projects are implicitly informed by some kind of sublimninal eco-consciousness.
[Dr. Roddy Flynn, Dublin City University]

Continuum Guide to Media Education. London: Continuum Press. 2001.

Presented in an easy to use A-Z format, the entries constitute an invaluable one-stop resource for media educators and education students at all levels in this broad, interdisciplinary subject area. There is so many disciplinary areas which media studies encapusulate that students initially find it difficult to get a handle on the area, consequently this book helps them to grasp the importance of media studies.

Historical Dictionary of Irish Cinema
[Roddy Flynn and Pat Brereton]
Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. 2007.

This comprehensive overview of Irish cinema from the beginning of the 20th Century to recent classics including Adam and Paul which incidentally graces the cover, captures the full gamut of film history, alongside individual entries for films and creative personnel who have worked in Irish film over the years. It is a valuable resource for researchers who need a summary of the main themes and trends within the Irish film industry.

Convergence: International Journal for Research into New Media Technologies. Sage
Pat Brereton is on the Editorial Board of the Journal. - see special issue on DVD add-ons which he edited in 2007.     Sage Journals Online : Convergence

Editorial: The Consumption and Use of DVDs and their Add-Ons
Convergence, May 2007 vol.13: pp.115-117 (excerpts)

When DVD first arrived around 1997, consumers were not only familiar with demandled, domestic viewing but also with many forms of interactivity because of the increasing ubiquity of media such as the World Wide Web and digital games. DVDs, however, introduced the idea that ‘traditional non-directional, or sequential, cinema was just one component of the moving-image experience, and that repeat watching was not only acceptable but was almost required’ (Harper in Rombes, 2005: 97). While the videocassette transformed the size and accessibility of film experience by marketing it as a booksized, readily available commodity, the DVD accelerated the ability to manipulate a film's narrative, with multiple options and commentaries.