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Slater, Don and Nixon, Sean and McFall, Liz (2024) Strategic ambiguity: a roundtable on cultural economy and consumer culture. Journal of Cultural Economy, 17 (5). pp. 684-693. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2021.1958901

Nixon, Sean (2023) Watching Birds: Observation, Photography and the 'Ethological Eye'. British Journal for the History of Science, 57 (1). pp. 1-19. DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087423000353

Nixon, SJ (2017) Vanishing Peregrines: J.A.Baker, Environmental Crisis and Bird-centred Cultures of Nature, 1954-1973. Rural History, 28 (2). pp. 205-226. DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956793317000115

Nixon, Sean (2017) Looking westwards and worshipping: The New York 'Creative Revolution' and British advertising, 1956-1980. Journal of Consumer Culture, 17 (2). pp. 147-166. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/1469540515571388

Nixon, Sean (2017) Gentlemanly Professional and Men-about-Town: Occupational Identities Amongst London Advertising Men, 1951-67. Cultural and Social History, 13 (3). pp. 377-401. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2016.1202009

Nixon, Sean (2017) Life in the kitchen: Television advertising, the housewife and domestic modernity in Britain, 1955–1969. Contemporary British History, 31 (1). pp. 69-90. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2016.1245619

Nixon, Sean (2015) Trouble at the National Trust: Post-war Recreation, the Benson Report and the Rebuilding of a Conservation Organization in the 1960s. Twentieth Century British History, 26 (4). pp. 529-550. DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwv031

Nixon, Sean (2010) ‘Salesmen of the Will to Want’: Advertising and its Critics in Britain 1951–1967. Contemporary British History, 24 (2). pp. 213-233. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/13619461003768306

Nixon, S (2009) Understanding Ordinary Women: Advertising, consumer research and mass consumption in Britain, 1948-67. Journal of Cultural Economy, 2 (3). pp. 301-323. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350903345546

Nixon, Sean (2008) Apostles of Americanization? J. Walter Thompson Company Ltd, Advertising and Anglo-American Relations 1945–67. Contemporary British History, 22 (4). pp. 477-499. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/13619460802439374

Nixon, Sean (2006) THE PURSUIT OF NEWNESS. Cultural Studies, 20 (1). pp. 89-106. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/09502380500494877

Nixon, S and Crew, B (2004) Pleasure at Work? Gender, Consumption and Work-based Identities in the Creative Industries. Consumption Markets & Culture, 7 (2). pp. 129-147. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/1025386042000246197

Nixon, S and Du Gay, P (2002) Who Needs Cultural Intermediaries? Cultural Studies, 16 (4). pp. 495-500. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/09502380210139070

Nixon, Sean (1993) Looking for the Holy Grail: Publishing and advertising strategies and contemporary men's magazines. Cultural Studies, 7 (3). pp. 466-492. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/09502389300490311

Book Section

Nixon, S (2014) Cultural Intermediaries or Market Device? The Case of Advertising. In: The Cultural Intermediaries Reader. Conceptual and Methodological Foundations . Sage. ISBN 9781446201336.

Nixon, S (2013) Exhibiting masculinity. In: Representation: Cultural Representation and Signifying Practices Second Edition. Culture, Media and Identities series . Sage. ISBN 9781849205634.

Nixon, S (2011) From Full-Service Agency to 3-D Marketing Consultants: 'Creativity' and Organizational Change in Advertising. In: Managing Media Work. Sage, pp. 199-208. ISBN 9781412971249.

Nixon, S (2011) Trading on Human Weakness: Richard Hoggart and his Advertising Critics in the 1960s. In: Richard Hoggart, Culture & Critique. Critical, Cultural and Communication Press, Nottingham. ISBN 9781905510375.

Nixon, S (2009) Creativity, Innovation and the Cultural Economy. In: Creativity, Innovation and the Cultural Economy. Routledge, pp. 41-53. ISBN 9780203880012. Official URL: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203880012

Nixon, S (2009) Advertising, Magazine Culture and the 'New Man'. In: Media Studies, a reader (3rd edition). Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 736-746. ISBN 9780748637836.

Nixon, S (2003) Lifestyle Shopping. In: Lifestyle Shopping: The Subject of Consumption. Routledge, pp. 151-170. ISBN 9780203413074. Official URL: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203413074

Nixon, S (2002) Re-imaging the Advertising Agency: the Cultural Connotations of Economic Forms. In: Cultural Economy Cultural Analysis and Commercial Life. Culture, Representation and Identity series . Sage, pp. 132-147. ISBN 9780761959939.

Nixon, S (2001) Resignifying Masculinity: From 'New Man' to 'New Lad'. In: British Cultural Studies: Geography, Nationality, and Identity. Oxford University Press (OUP), pp. 373-386. ISBN 978-0-19-874206-7.

Nixon, S (2000) In Pursuit of the Professional Ideal: UK Advertising and the Construction of Commercial Expertise 1953-64. In: Commercial Cultures: Economies, Practices, Spaces. Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 55-74. ISBN 9781859733820.

Nixon, S (2000) Intervening in Popular Culture: Cultural Politics and the Art of Translation. In: Without Guarantees, in honour of Stuart Hall. Verso, pp. 254-265. ISBN 9781859842874.

Nixon, S (1998) Circulating Culture. In: Cultures of Production/Production of Culture. Culture, Media and Identities . Sage, pp. 177-234. ISBN 9780761954361.

Nixon, S (1997) Exhibiting Masculinity. In: Representation: Cultural Representation and Signifying Practices. Culture, Media and Identities . Sage, pp. 291-336. ISBN 9780761954323.

Nixon, S (1996) Advertising Executives as Modern Men: Masculinity and the UK Advertising Industry in the 1980s. In: Buy This Book, studies in advertising and consumerism. Routledge, pp. 103-119. ISBN 9780415141321.

Nixon, S (1996) Designs on Masculinity: Menswear Retailing and the Role of Retail Design. In: Back to Reality?: Social Experience and Cultural Studies. Manchester University Press, pp. 170-189. ISBN 9780719044557.

Monograph

Nixon, S (2009) Understanding Ordinary Women: Advertising, Consumer Research and Mass Consumption in Britain, 1948-67. UNSPECIFIED. Centre for Research in Economic Sociology and Innovation (CRESI) Working Paper 2009-03, University of Essex, Colchester, UK.

Book

Nixon, S (2016) Hard looks: Masculinities, spectatorship and contemporary consumption. Springer, pp. 1-241. ISBN 9781349614424.

Nixon, S (2016) Hard sell: Advertising, affluence and transatlantic relations, c. 1951-69. Oxford University Press, pp. 1-212. ISBN 9780719085376.

Hall, S and Evans, J and Nixon, S (2013) Representation: Cultural Representation and Signifying Practices Second Edition. Culture, Media and Identities series . Sage. ISBN 9781849205634.

Nixon, Sean (2003) Advertising Cultures: Gender, Commerce, Creativity. SAGE Publications Ltd, pp. 1-184. ISBN 9780761961987. Official URL: https://doi.org/10.4135/9781446218839