All Outputs (9)

The life review and the (alternative) politics of ageing (2017)
Journal Article
Wilson, S. (2017). The life review and the (alternative) politics of ageing. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 14(2), 196-212. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2017.0363

© 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
Wilson, S. (2016). In the Living Room: Second Screens and TV Audiences. Television and New Media, 17(2), 174-191. https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476415593348

© 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.

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

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
Wilson, S. (2012). Dramatising madness: In two minds and 1960s counter-cultural politics

Representations of health care in the age of Thatcher (2012)
Journal Article
Wilson, S. (2012). Representations of health care in the age of Thatcher. Critical Studies in Television, 7(1), 13-28. https://doi.org/10.7227/CST.7.1.4

Book review: Janice Peck, The Age of Oprah: Cultural Icon for the Neoliberal Era. Paradigm Publishers, 2008. (2009)
Journal Article
Wilson, S. (2009). Book review: Janice Peck, The Age of Oprah: Cultural Icon for the Neoliberal Era. Paradigm Publishers, 2008. Critical Studies in Television, 4(2), 137-140

Angels (2009)
Journal Article
Wilson, S. (2009). Angels

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.

Television talk shows (2009)
Journal Article
Wilson, S. (2009). Television talk shows

An article written on the history of TV talk shows 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... Read More about Television talk shows.

‘No need for fear or secrets’: Ruth Fisher and grotesque realism in Six Feet Under (2004)
Journal Article
Wilson, S. (2004). ‘No need for fear or secrets’: Ruth Fisher and grotesque realism in Six Feet Under. Scholar and Feminist Online, 3(1),

The paper explores the ways in the which the figure of the older woman is constructed and deployed in the TV drama Six Feet Under.