Holmlund, C., Purse, L. and Tasker, Y. (2024) Introduction: action as mode. In: Holmlund, C., Purse, L. and Tasker, Y. (eds.) Action Cinema Since 2000. The British Film Institute / Bloomsbury Publishing, London, pp. 1-18. ISBN 9781839022784 doi: https://doi.org/10.5040/9781839022814.0006

Purse, L. (2024) What does power look like? Women heroes in digital action cinema. In: Holmlund, C., Purse, L. and Tasker, Y. (eds.) Action Cinema Since 2000. The British Film Institute / Bloomsbury Publishing, London, pp. 221-236. ISBN 9781839022784 doi: https://doi.org/10.5040/9781839022814.ch-012

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., (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.

Donaldson, L. F., Gibbs, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0876-1798, Purse, L., Pye, D. and Shambu, G. (2022) Roundtable: Movie: a journal of film criticism and the past, present, and future of film criticism. Movie: a journal of film criticism (10). pp. 116-136. ISSN 2047-1661

Fife Donaldson, L. and Purse, L., eds. (2022) Issue 10. Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism, 10. University of Warwick. (ISSN 2047-1661)

Purse, L. and Wölfel, U., 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. (2019) The new dominance: action-fantasy hybrids and the new superhero in 2000s action cinema. In: Kendrick, J. (ed.) A Companion to the Action Film. Wiley Blackwell, Chichester, West Sussex, pp. 55-73. ISBN 9781119100492 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119100744.ch3

Purse, L. (2019) Square-jawed strength: gender and resilience in the female astronaut film. Science Fiction Film and Television, 12 (1). pp. 53-72. ISSN 1754-3770

Purse, L. and Palmer, L., eds. (2019) When the astronaut is a woman. Science Fiction Film and Television (Special Issue), 12 (1). Liverpool University Press.

Purse, L. (2018) Layered encounters: mainstream cinema and the disaggregate digital composite. Film-Philosophy, 22 (2). pp. 148-167. ISSN 1466-4615 doi: https://doi.org/10.3366/film.2018.0070

Purse, L. (2017) Between phonographic perfection and resistance: Titãs – life even looks like a party. In: Elduque Busquets, A. (ed.) 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) Confronting the impossibility of impossible bodies: Tom Cruise and the ageing male action hero movie. In: Yu, S. Q. and Austin, G. (eds.) Revisiting Star Studies: Cultures, Themes and Methods. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 162-184, 320 pages. ISBN 9781474404310

Purse, L. (2017) Ambiguity, ambivalence and absence in Zero Dark Thirty. In: 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. (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. (2017) Digital visceral: textural play and the flamboyant gesture in digital screen violence. Journal of Popular Film & Television, 45 (1). pp. 16-25. ISSN 0195-6051 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/01956051.2017.1270137

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

Hellmich, C. and Purse, L. (2016) Knowing war: moving images and the politics of erasure in the post 9/11 world. E-international relations.

Purse, L. (2016) Affective trajectories: locating diegetic velocity in the cinema experience. Cinema Journal, 55 (2). pp. 151-157. ISSN 0009-7101 (IN FOCUS: Speed)

Purse, L. (2015) Rotational aesthetics: Michael Bay and contemporary cinema’s machine movement. Senses of Cinema (75). ISSN 1443-4059

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) 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) 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. (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