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Monstrous Aunties: the Rabelaisian older Asian woman in British cinema and television comedy (2019)
Journal Article
Tincknell, E. (2020). Monstrous Aunties: the Rabelaisian older Asian woman in British cinema and television comedy. Feminist Media Studies, 20(1), 135-150. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2019.1599038

© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Representations of older women of South Asian heritage in British cinema are often assumed to do little more than reiterate familiar stereotypes. Yet some British comedy films an... Read More about Monstrous Aunties: the Rabelaisian older Asian woman in British cinema and television comedy.

The nation's matron: Hattie Jacques and British postwar popular culture (2015)
Journal Article
Tincknell, E. (2015). The nation's matron: Hattie Jacques and British postwar popular culture. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 12(1), 6-24. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2015.0240

© Edinburgh University Press. Hattie Jacques was a key figure in British postwar popular cinema and culture, condensing a range of contradictions around power, desire, femininity and class through her performances as a comedienne, primarily in the Ca... Read More about The nation's matron: Hattie Jacques and British postwar popular culture.

Dowagers, debs, nuns and babies: The politics of Nostalgia and the older woman in the British sunday night television serial (2013)
Journal Article
Tincknell, E. (2013). Dowagers, debs, nuns and babies: The politics of Nostalgia and the older woman in the British sunday night television serial. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 10(4), 769-784. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2013.0174

The extensive commercial success of two well-made popular television drama serials screened in the UK at prime time on Sunday evenings during the winter of 2011-12, Downton Abbey (ITV, 2010-) and Call the Midwife (BBC, 2012-), has appeared to consoli... Read More about Dowagers, debs, nuns and babies: The politics of Nostalgia and the older woman in the British sunday night television serial.

Big Brother: Reconfiguring the ‘active’ audience of cultural studies? (2002)
Journal Article
Tincknell, E., & Raghuram, P. (2002). Big Brother: Reconfiguring the ‘active’ audience of cultural studies?. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 5(2), 199-215. https://doi.org/10.1177/1364942002005002159

The emergence of a relatively new genre, ‘reality television’, has helped to break down the division between text and audience in significant ways, and this presents us with interesting questions for cultural studies. In this article we consider one... Read More about Big Brother: Reconfiguring the ‘active’ audience of cultural studies?.