• New television as neo-naturalism: The Wire and The Shield 

  Gibbs, Alan (University of Toronto Press, 2021-10-08)

  This article examines The Wire (HBO, 2002–8) and The Shield (FX, 2002–8) and the extent to which they employ particular attributes of new television in order to engage with notions of determined behaviour familiar from ...
• "Things happen to you they happen": Cormac McCarthy, morality, and neo-naturalism 

  Gibbs, Alan (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020)

  This article examines elements of determinism and naturalism in Cormac McCarthy's twenty-first-century novels, No Country for Old Men and The Road. While naturalism has been noted in McCarthy's work prior to these novels, ...
• “You make yourself into a monster so you no longer bear responsibility for what you do”: Dexter, Naturalism, and Neoliberal Crime Discourse 

  Gibbs, Alan (University of Nebraska Press, 2020)

  Showtime’s popular crime series Dexter (2006–13) draws on a range of themes, aesthetics, and ideas typically associated with naturalism, and the relationship between the program’s naturalist attributes, gender-based violence, ...
• The exonerative deterministic: uses of neo-naturalism in twenty-first century American culture 

  Gibbs, Alan (Cambridge University Press, 2021-12-14)

  This article examines the resurgence of an especially deterministic form of naturalism in contemporary American culture, which can be linked to particular attributes of neoliberalism. In particular, neoliberal power is ...
• Toy theatres and real ones 

  Hofer-Robinson, Joanna (Oxford University Press, 2020-02-07)

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