Outputs (18)

The life review and the (alternative) politics of ageing (2017)
Journal Article

© Edinburgh University Press. Referencing Diana Athill's memoir, Alive, Alive Oh! And Other Things That Matter (2015), this article organises an analysis of the BBC television dramas A Cream Cracker under the Settee (1988) and She's Been Away (1989)... Read More about The life review and the (alternative) politics of ageing.

In the Living Room: Second Screens and TV Audiences (2016)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2015. This article is based on a small pilot project exploring the role, function, and meanings of second screens and companion apps for TV audiences that is contextualized by existing academic audience research. This is mapped alongs... Read More about In the Living Room: Second Screens and TV Audiences.

She’s Been Away: Ageing, madness and memory (2014)
Book Chapter

She’s Been Away is a television drama written by Stephen Poliakoff and broadcast in the UK on the BBC in 1989. This paper discusses the ways in which the play unusually presents a feminist critique of contemporary patriarchal structures through the m... Read More about She’s Been Away: Ageing, madness and memory.

Broadcasting and the NHS in the Thatcherite 1980s: The challenge to public service (2013)
Book

The very idea of 'public service' came under fierce attack in the Thatcherite 1980s. Broadcasting and the NHS in the Thatcherite 1980s takes the two key services, broadcasting and the NHS, and traces the heated debates and political pressures which... Read More about Broadcasting and the NHS in the Thatcherite 1980s: The challenge to public service.

Beyond patriarchy: Six Feet Under and the older woman (2012)
Book Chapter

The chapter explores the ways in which ageing femininities are constructed in the TV drama Six Feet under by looking at the characters of Ruth Fisher and her friend Bettina. The chapter argues that through the rule breaking, unruly bhaviour, the TV s... Read More about Beyond patriarchy: Six Feet Under and the older woman.

Dramatizing madness: In two minds and 1960s counter-cultural politics (2012)
Journal Article

This article explores the TV drama In Two Minds (BBC1, 1967) which was broadcast as a part of the Wednesday Play series. I argue that the play is the product of a constellation of social, cultural and institutional forces that dramatizes the avant-ga... Read More about Dramatizing madness: In two minds and 1960s counter-cultural politics.

Dramatising madness: In two minds and 1960s counter-cultural politics (2012)
Journal Article

Representations of health care in the age of Thatcher (2012)
Journal Article

Book review: Janice Peck, The Age of Oprah: Cultural Icon for the Neoliberal Era. Paradigm Publishers, 2008. (2009)
Journal Article

Angels (2009)
Journal Article

An article written on the BBC drama Angels for Videoactive, a project funded within the eContentplus programme of the European Commission. This is an EU funded project that aims to create access to television archives across Europe in order to enabl... Read More about Angels.