John Wayne’s world: transnational masculinity in the fifties, by Russell Meeuf, Austin, University of Texas Press, 2013, 225 pp., £36.31 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-29-274746-3

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John Caro

John Caro is currently Assistant Head for the School of Creative Arts, Film & Media at the University of Portsmouth. A graduate of Northumbria University’s media production programme, in 2001 he completed a film and video master’s degree at Toronto’s York University, supported by a commonwealth scholarship. He has directed and produced numerous short films, screening his work at Raindance and the International Tel-Aviv Film Festival. From 1983 to 1987 he was a set decorator at Pinewood Studios, working on such films as Aliens and Full Metal Jacket. More recently, he contributed reviews to the Directory of World Cinema: American Hollywood Volumes 1 & 2 (Intellect, 2011 and 2015), and his essay on the reimagined Battlestar Galactica series, co-authored with Dylan Pank, appeared in Channeling the Future: Essays on Science Fiction and Fantasy Television (ed. Lincoln Geraghty, Scarecrow, 2009).