Feature articles and artists’ books
Copulating giants or concrete cathedrals? A short history of the Four-level Stack, Society and Space, 2022, Peter Merrington, and Ilana Mitchell, 2022.
Quick Quick Slow: the fate and transport of coal, torpedo cruisers and the big shop, cty, (ISBN 978-1-7391817-0-3), 2022.
A Partial Index, (ISBN 978-1-908452-63-4), edited by Peter Merrington and Tijana Stevanović, 2014.
Work on festivals, culture and place in North East England
Making space: re-thinking the cultural economy in Newcastle, Engage, 40, 84-91, 2017.
Festival as process: art, territory, assemblage and mobility in North East England, 2003-2012, PhD thesis, Newcastle University, 2016.
Work on independent film and cinema exhibition, regionalism and place
Wessels, B. Hanchard, M. Merrington, P and Forrest, D (2023) Film audiences: Personal journeys with film, Manchester University Press.
Merrington, P., Hanchard, M. and Wessels, B (2023) Comparing localised film culture in English cities: the diversity of film exhibition in Bristol and Liverpool in Van de Vidjer, L. (ed.) Comparing New Cinema Histories. Methodologies and Practices from a Global Perspectives, Cambridge: Palgrave.
Forrest, D. and Merrington, P. (2021) 'A “Space to Imagine”: Frenchness and the Pleasures and Labours of Art Cinema in the English Regions’, Studies in European Cinema.
Forrest, D. and Merington, P. (2021) ‘“With films like that I sometimes think the people that go and watch them are not the people that necessarily need to see them” - Viewing ‘I, Daniel Blake’ in the English Regions: Towards an Understanding of Realism Through Audience Interpretation’, The Journal of British Cinema and Television.
Merrington, P., Hanchard, M., Wessels, P. (2021) ‘Inequalities in regional film exhibition: policy, place and audiences’, Journal of British Film and Television.
Hanchard, M., Wessels, B., Merrington, P. ‘Screen Choice: The Relations, Interactions and Articulations of Watching Film’, Open Screens.
Hanchard, M., Wessels, B., Merrington, P. (2020) ‘Being part of an audience: patterns of contemporary film audience experience Configuring audience types: how film-watching features in cultural life’, Participations, 17(2).
Merrington, P., Hanchard, M., Wessels, B., Pidd, P., Rogers, K., Forrest, D., Higson, A., Smits, R., Townsend, N., and Yates, S. (2019), Using mixed-methods, a data model and a computational ontology in film audience research, Cultural Trends, 28:2-3, 118-131.