Novels

2007 The Glass Book - coming soon to Amazon Kindle 

Screenplays

If you would like to read these or have further interest in my screenplays, please contact me at contact@christianhayes.co.uk

2011 The Dime Detective 
In jazz-age New York a bored office worker escapes the daily grind by becoming a private eye.

2008 Anonymous Blonde 
A frustrated woman who escapes her job and boyfriend by changing her identity and beginning a new life.

Plays

2003 The Monster Opera - performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
A fantastical drama about the claustrophobic relationship between a playwright and his wife.

2002 Word of Mouth - performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
A comic drama about a holiday-starved man who builds a beach within his flat performed during a seven-night run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2002.

2002 Waiting for Superman - performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
A comedy about the creation of Superman performed during a seven-night run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2002.

Awards
The Projection Box Essay Awards, 2008 - I won third place for my essay on phantom ride films in 1910s London.

Film History
For online writing about classic film, please visit classicfilmshow.com.

2010 ‘The Chaplin Boom in Britain’, a chapter in the forthcoming book The Chaplin Persona (2011).

2009 ‘Phantom Carriages: Reconstructing Hale’s Tours and the Virtual Travel Experience’ to be published in the journal Early Popular Visual Culture. (Published by Routledge)

2006 Articles for the BFI's Screenonline about early cinema including a piece on Phantom Rides.

2006 ‘“A movement that was never a movement”: The nouvelle vague and the construction of a New Wave’

2005 ‘The Outside-In Machine: the Kinetoscope, its films and the Kinetoscope Experience in London’

2005 ‘The Development of the Talkies in Britain’ - What kind of resistances were there to the Talkies in the late 1920s and why were they eventually overcome?

2005 ‘Cinema’s First Master’’? Reviewing the Cinema of Victor Sjöström

2005 Lagaan and the role of music in Bollywood cinema

2005 Between 8 1/2 and ‘1984 1/2’: the construction of ambiguity in Federico Fellini’s 8 1/2 and Terry Gilliam’s Brazil

2004 Dorothy Opens the Door: Technicolor and its development in 1930s Hollywood

2004 The Reception and Exhibition of Buster Keaton in Britain

2004 Footlight Parade: Hollywood, Roosevelt’s New Deal and the Warner Brothers backstage musical