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Always in with the in-crowd: Vogue and the cultural politics of gender, place, class and taste (2020)
Book Chapter
Tincknell, E. (2020). Always in with the in-crowd: Vogue and the cultural politics of gender, place, class and taste. In L. Forster, & J. Hollows (Eds.), Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1940s-2000s (200-214). Edinburgh University Press

The venerable fashion magazine Vogue has always associated itself with the interests of the ruling class, through the cultural and symbolic capital exhibited by the diffused aesthetic of its fashion spreads and through its unabashed attachment to the... Read More about Always in with the in-crowd: Vogue and the cultural politics of gender, place, class and taste.

The time and the place: Music and costume and the "affect" of history in the New Zealand films of Jane Campion (2011)
Book Chapter
Tincknell, E. (2011). The time and the place: Music and costume and the "affect" of history in the New Zealand films of Jane Campion. In A. Fox, H. Radner, & B. K. Grant (Eds.), New Zealand Cinema: Interpreting the Past. Intellect

New Zealand has produced one of the world’s most vibrant film cultures, a reflection of the country’s evolving history and the energy and resourcefulness of its people. From early silent features like The Te Kooti Trail to recent films such as River... Read More about The time and the place: Music and costume and the "affect" of history in the New Zealand films of Jane Campion.

Goldie Hawn: A dumb blonde for the baby boomer generation (2011)
Book Chapter
Tincknell, E. (2011). Goldie Hawn: A dumb blonde for the baby boomer generation. In A. Swinnen, & J. A. Stotesbury (Eds.), Aging, Performance and Stardom: Doing Age on the Stage of Consumerist Culture. Lit Verlag

Double O agencies: Femininity, post-feminism and the female spy in Casino Royale (2010)
Book Chapter
Tincknell, E. (2010). Double O agencies: Femininity, post-feminism and the female spy in Casino Royale. In C. Lindner (Ed.), Revisioning 007: James Bond and Casino Royale. Wallflower Press

Casino Royale was widely marketed and received as a 're-booting' of the Bond franchise, with a concomitant reinvention of the Bond girl for a post-feminist world. This essay critiques this claim, identifying important continuities between the film's... Read More about Double O agencies: Femininity, post-feminism and the female spy in Casino Royale.

Scourging the abject body: the television make-over show and the reconstruction of femininity under neoliberalism (2010)
Book Chapter
Tincknell, E. (2010). Scourging the abject body: the television make-over show and the reconstruction of femininity under neoliberalism. In R. Gill, & C. Scharff (Eds.), New Femininities: Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and Identity. Palgrave Macmillan

The television makeover show has become an important site for the discursive re-inscription of femininity as a fluid condition requiring continuous work and self-modification in order that it can be 'held together', and in which social idenity, the b... Read More about Scourging the abject body: the television make-over show and the reconstruction of femininity under neoliberalism.

Feminine boundaries: Adolesence, witchcraft and the supernatural in new gothic cinema and television (2009)
Book Chapter
Tincknell, E. (2009). Feminine boundaries: Adolesence, witchcraft and the supernatural in new gothic cinema and television. In I. Conrich (Ed.), Horror Zone: The Cultural Experience of Contemporary Horror Cinema. I.B.Tauris, Macmillan

The 'new gothic' film and television text addressed to a largely female audience such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Twilight and True Blood, has become an important genre for the staging and testing out of ideas about adolesent femininity, sexuality... Read More about Feminine boundaries: Adolesence, witchcraft and the supernatural in new gothic cinema and television.

The "postfeminist" biopic: Re-telling the past in The Hours, Sylvia and Iris (2009)
Book Chapter
Dolan, J., Gordon, S., & Tincknell, E. (2009). The "postfeminist" biopic: Re-telling the past in The Hours, Sylvia and Iris. In R. Carroll (Ed.), Textual Infidelities: Adaptations in Print and Visual Cultures. Continuum

This co-authored article about biopics of key women writers of the twentieth century is located in the proliferation of the genre since the 1990s. Analysis of Iris (Richard Eyre, 2001), The Hours (Stephen Daldry, 2002) and Sylvia (Christine Jeffs, 2... Read More about The "postfeminist" biopic: Re-telling the past in The Hours, Sylvia and Iris.