All Outputs (14)

Broadcasting and the NHS in the Thatcherite 1980s: The challenge to public service (2013)
Book
Holland, P., Chgnell, H., & Wilson, S. (2013). Broadcasting and the NHS in the Thatcherite 1980s: The challenge to public service. UK: Palgrave MacMillan

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
Wilson, S. (2012). Beyond patriarchy: Six Feet Under and the older woman. In J. Dolan, & E. Tincknell (Eds.), Ageing Femininities: Troubling Representations. Cambridge Scholars Press

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.

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.

Women, ageing and media workshops (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Dolan, J., Jenning, R., Garde Hansen, J., Gorton, K., Wilson, S., & Tincknell, E. (2008, June). Women, ageing and media workshops. Presented at AHRC funded Research Networks and Workshops: Women, Ageing and Media, http://insight.glos.ac.uk/researchmainpage/centres/wam/Pages/AHRCfundedResearchNetworksandWorkshopsProject.aspx

The Women, Ageing and Media (WAM) research group secured Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funding in 2008 to run a series of workshops and an international conference in order to conduct a sustained investigation into proliferating print,... Read More about Women, ageing and media workshops.

It was a "mascara runnin’ kinda day": Oprah Winfrey, confession, celebrity and the formation of trust (2007)
Book Chapter
Wilson, S. (2007). It was a "mascara runnin’ kinda day": Oprah Winfrey, confession, celebrity and the formation of trust. In V. Bakir, & D. Barlow (Eds.), Communication in the Age of Suspicion: Trust and the Media (167-176). Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan

Oprah Winfrey is a very popular figure in contemporary American culture. Often described as 'authentic', the chapter explores the ways in which Winfrey deploys confessional practices on her TV talk show as a means to engender trust.

White picket fences, domestic containment and female subjectivity: the quest for romantic love (2006)
Book Chapter
Wilson, S. (2006). White picket fences, domestic containment and female subjectivity: the quest for romantic love. In J. McCabe, & K. Akass (Eds.), Reading Desperate Housewives (144-155). I.B. Tauris

The chapter explores the representation of feminine desire for romantic love in the TV drama Desperate Housewives. It argues that the show recalls and articulates a pre-feminist sensibility.

Real people with real problems?: Public service broadcasting, commercialism and Trisha (2005)
Book Chapter
Wilson, S. (2005). Real people with real problems?: Public service broadcasting, commercialism and Trisha. In C. Johnson, & R. Turnock (Eds.), ITV Cultures: Independent Television Over Fifty Years (159-176). Basingstoke: Open University Press

Between 1998 and 2004 Anglia Television produced Trisha, a 60 minute talk show broadcast every week day morning across the ITV network. The show attracted high numbers of viewers for that time of day and for some commentators Trisha Goddard’s move to... Read More about Real people with real problems?: Public service broadcasting, commercialism and Trisha.

‘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.

Oprah, celebrity and formations of self (2003)
Book
Wilson, S. (2003). Oprah, celebrity and formations of self. Palgrave Macmillan

Examining the phenomenon of the Oprah Winfrey Show within the context of contemporary American culture, the book considers the reasons for the popularity of this television programme. It explores Winfrey's celebrity persona, the ways in which indivi... Read More about Oprah, celebrity and formations of self.

There’s no such thing as society?: A study of broadcasting and the public services under the three Thatcher governments, 1979-1992
Other
Holland, P., Chignell, H., Eglezou, G., & Wilson, S. There’s no such thing as society?: A study of broadcasting and the public services under the three Thatcher governments, 1979-1992

This two year research project (January 2008-January 2010) funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council was based within the Centre for Broadcasting History Research at Bournemouth University. It investigated the ways in which UK television and... Read More about There’s no such thing as society?: A study of broadcasting and the public services under the three Thatcher governments, 1979-1992.