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Fryers, Mark (2024). Ghosts (Nick Broomfield - 2006) The Sea as Death. In: Bronk-Bacon, Katarzyna and Bacon, Simon eds. Death in the 21st Century: A Companion. Genre Fiction and Film Companions, 12. Oxford UK: Peter Lang Group AG, pp. 135–142.

Fryers, Mark (2024). ‘A chilling story from today’s headlines:’ Community, Maritime Apocalypse and Discourses of Eco-Dystopia’s in Doomwatch (1972). Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural(10) pp. 27–44.

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Fryers, Mark (2022). Children’s maritime television in Britain: Environment, representation and identity. In: Olson, Debbie and Schober, Adrian eds. Children, Youth and International Television. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 91–110.

Fryers, Mark (2021). ‘It’s not ghosts, it’s history’: The Sonic Tradition of British Horror Television. In: Abbott, Stacey and Jowett, Lorna eds. Global TV Horror. Cardiff: The University of Wales Press, pp. 33–48.

Fryers, Mark (2021). The haunted seas of british television: nation, environment and horror. Gothic Nature, II pp. 131–155.

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Fryers, Mark (2020). ‘An Impulse of Anger, Instantly Regretted’: Rebellion and Reaction in the early 1960s Naval Film. In: Petrie, Duncan; Williams, Melanie and Mayne, Laura eds. Sixties British Cinema Reconsidered. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 209–222.

Fryers, Mark (2020). Thalassophobia: Jaws (1975) and the Nautical Spaces of Horror. In: Pascuzzi, Francesco and Waters, Sandra eds. The Spaces and Places of Horror. Critical Media Studies. Wilmington, Delaware: Vernon Press, pp. 127–144.

Fryers, Mark (2020). Horrific ‘in-betweenness’: spatial and temporal displacement and british society in 1970s children’s supernatural television’. Supernatural Studies, 6(2) pp. 30–58.

Fryers, Mark (2019). 'I will not fight for my country...for my ship...my King...or Captain': Redefining Imperial Masculinities in To the Ends of the Earth. In: Byrne, Katherine; Leggott, James and Taddeo, Julie Anne eds. Conflicting Masculinities: Men in Period Television Drama. London; New York: I. B. Tauris, pp. 35–51.

Fryers, Mark (2019). 'Cash and catamarans': 1980s British society through Howards’ Way. The Journal of Popular Television, 7(3) pp. 261–277.

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Fryers, Mark (2018). Songs of the sea: sea beasts and maritime folklore in global animation. In: Hackett, John and Harrington, Seán eds. Beasts of the Deep: Sea Creatures and Popular Culture. East Barnet: John Libbey Publishing Ltd, pp. 185–198.

Fryers, Mark (2014). "It’s not the navy—we don’t stand backwards to stand upwards": The Onedin Line and the Changing Waters of British Maritime Identity. In: Leggott, James and Taddeo, Julie eds. Upstairs and Downstairs: British Costume Drama Television from The Forsyte Saga to Downton Abbey. London: Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 139–151.