HBO and the Aristocracy of TV Culture : affiliations and legitimatising television culture, post-2007 (Co-Authored with Dr Janet McCabe). This article, which was published in the journal Mise-Au-Point in January 2018, sheds ...

This chapter argues that characters like Carmela Soprano are a product of our complex post-feminist age of troubled emancipation. Indeed, Carmela is produced by a premium cable subscription company trading in a dynamic ...

This keynote seeks to explore what lessons we can learn from HBO, and how the company functions as a cultural site as it systematically sets about legitimatizing a discourse of television as art. So successful has HBO been ...

Despite the passing of sexual discrimination legislation, the difficulty of combining work and motherhood repeatedly hits the headlines. This paper looks at the American media phenomenon known as the ‘mommy wars’ and asks ...

This journal article looks at the gendered angle taken by journalists when reporting the recession in North American and British newspapers and how the emphasis on gender hides issues of race and class.

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