Purse, L. (2026) Taking a beating: historicising the US action heroine as “punchbag”. In: Berridge, S. and Boyle, K. (eds.) Routledge Companion to Gender, Violence & Popular Culture:. Routledge Companion to Gender book series. Routledge, London. (In Press)
Purse, L. (2025) Foreword. In: Pheasant-Kelly, F. and Van Raalte, C. (eds.) Action Heroines in the 21st Century: Sisters In Arms:. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, xiv-xvii. ISBN 9781399529754
Purse, L. and Philip, A.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2186-0619,
(2025)
How well served are researchers by the data that ONS produces and the services it provides?
Report.
UK Parliament, Westminster.
pp2.
Purse, L., Philip, A.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2186-0619 and Byrne, S.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-8607-2429,
(2025)
Freelancers: building workforce resilience for growth in the UK film and television industries.
Report.
University of Reading
doi: 10.48683/1926.00122232
Purse, L., Lees, D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3787-3740, Philip, A.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2186-0619 and Ghosh, S.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6042-5496,
(2023)
What can the industry and Government do to ensure British film and high-end television can adapt for the future?
Report.
UK Parliament, Westminster.
pp4.
Fife Donaldson, L. and Purse, L., eds. (2022) Issue 10. Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism, 10. University of Warwick. (ISSN 2047-1661)
Fife Donaldson, L. and Purse, L., eds. (2022) Issue 10. Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism. University of Warwick.
Purse, L. and Wölfel, U.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9556-536X, eds.
(2020)
Mediating War and Identity: Figures of Transgression in 20th- and 21st-century War Representation.
Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 1-13.
ISBN 9781474446266
Purse, L. and Palmer, L., eds. (2019) When the astronaut is a woman. Science Fiction Film and Television (Special Issue). Liverpool University Press.
Purse, L. (2017) Between phonographic perfection and resistance: Titãs – life even looks like a party. In: Elduque Busquets, A. and Elduque Busquets, A. (eds.) Contemporary Brazilian Music Film:. University of Reading, Reading, pp. 91-98. ISBN 9780704915855
Purse, L.
(2017)
Working space: gravity (Alfonso Cuarón) and the digital long take.
In: Pye, D. and Gibbs, J.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0876-1798 (eds.)
The Long Take: Critical Approaches.
Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television.
Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 221-238.
ISBN 9781137585721
Purse, L. (2017) Ambiguity, ambivalence and absence in Zero Dark Thirty. In: Hellmich, C., Purse, L. and Hellmich, C. (eds.) Disappearing War Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cinema and Erasure in the Post-9/11 World:. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 131-148. ISBN 9781474416566
Hellmich, C. and Purse, L., eds. (2017) Disappearing war: interdisciplinary perspectives on cinema and erasure in the post-9/11 world. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp216. ISBN 9781474416566
Hellmich, C. and Purse, L., eds. (2017) Disappearing war: interdisciplinary perspectives on cinema and erasure in the post-9/11 world. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp216. ISBN 9781474416566
Hellmich, C. and Purse, L. (2017) Introduction: film and the epistemology of war. In: Hellmich, C. and Purse, L. (eds.) Disappearing War: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cinema and Erasure in the Post-9/11 World:. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, UK. ISBN 9781474416566
Purse, L. (2016) The new Hollywood, 1981–1999: special/visual effects. In: Whissel, K. and Keil, C. (eds.) Editing and Special/Visual Effects. Behind the Silver Screen. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, pp. 142-155. ISBN 9780813570815
Purse, L. (2016) The new Hollywood, 1981–1999: special/visual effects. In: Whissel, K. and Keil, C. (eds.) Editing and Special/Visual Effects:. Behind the Silver Screen. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, pp. 142-155. ISBN 9780813570815
Purse, L. (2013) Digital imaging in popular cinema. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp208. ISBN 9780748646906
Purse, L. (2013) Digital imaging in popular cinema. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp208. ISBN 9780748646906
Purse, L. (2011) The Matrix. In: Geraghty, L. (ed.) Directory of World Cinema: American Hollywood. Directory of World Cinema. Intellect Books, Bristol and Chicago, IL, pp. 99-101. ISBN 9781841504155
Purse, L. (2011) The Matrix. In: Geraghty, L. (ed.) Directory of World Cinema: American Hollywood:. Directory of World Cinema. Intellect Books, Bristol and Chicago, IL, pp. 99-101. ISBN 9781841504155
Purse, L. (2011) Transformers. In: Geraghty, L. (ed.) American Hollywood. Directory of World Cinema (5). Intellect Books, Bristol and Chicago, IL, pp. 279-281. ISBN 9781841504155
Purse, L. (2011) Transformers. In: Geraghty, L. (ed.) American Hollywood:. Directory of World Cinema. Intellect Books, Bristol and Chicago, IL, pp. 279-281. ISBN 9781841504155
Purse, L. (2011) Contemporary action cinema. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp232. ISBN 9780748638178
Purse, L. (2011) Contemporary action cinema. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp232. ISBN 9780748638178
Purse, L. (2011) Return of the 'Angry Woman': authenticating female physical action in contemporary cinema. In: Waters, M. (ed.) Women on Screen: Feminism and Femininity in Visual Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 185-198. ISBN 9780230229655
Purse, L. (2010) Working through the body: textual-corporeal strategies in United 93 (2006). In: Brown, T. and Walters, J. (eds.) Film moments: criticism, history, theory. British Film Institute and Palgrave, London, UK, pp. 157-161. ISBN 9781844573363
Purse, L. (2010) Working through the body: textual-corporeal strategies in United 93 (2006). In: Brown, T. and Walters, J. (eds.) Film moments: criticism, history, theory:. British Film Institute and Palgrave, London, UK, pp. 157-161. ISBN 9781844573363
Purse, L. (2009) Gestures and postures of mastery: CGI and contemporary action cinema's expressive tendencies. In: Balcerzak, S. and Sperb, J. (eds.) Cinephilia in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Film, Pleasure and Digital Culture. Wallflower Press, London & New York, pp. 214-234. ISBN 9781905674848
Purse, L. (2009) Gestures and postures of mastery: CGI and contemporary action cinema's expressive tendencies. In: Balcerzak, S. and Sperb, J. (eds.) Cinephilia in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Film, Pleasure and Digital Culture:. Wallflower Press, London & New York, pp. 214-234. ISBN 9781905674848
Purse, L. (2005) The new spatial dynamics of the bullet-time effect. In: King, G. (ed.) The Spectacle of the Real: From Hollywood to Reality TV and Beyond. Intellect, Exeter, pp. 151-160. ISBN 9781841501208