Sarah Attfield
Biographic Data
| ID | 1640047 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Attfield |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Attfield |
| SIGNATURE | ATTFIELD S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Technology Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2265-6284 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Finding the ‘perfect blend’ in an undervalued genre
Australian soap Neighbours (1985–2022) was in active production for nearly 40 years. As a piece of popular television, it is still syndicated internationally and also sold as a successful format for new works. Neighbours has also served as an outlet to launch new generations of Australian on- and off-screen talent. Despite these successes, Neighbours has been overlooked by tastemakers, academics and critics. This article places Neighbours in cont…
The working class in the Australian mainstream media
The Australian mainstream media is dominated by middle-class voices, and this shapes the way working-class people are framed within the media. Working-class people have tended to be represented as responsible for their poverty, or ridiculed for their lack of sophistication. But could very small shifts be occurring, as some outlets acknowledge the impact of neo-liberalism on working-class people and point to some of the structural causes of inequa…
Rejecting Respectability
Many working-class people have aspired to respectability – maintaining cleanliness in the home, presenting an image of ‘niceness’ through neat modes of dress, or speaking ‘proper’. This respectability is intended to show those in power that working-class people are worthy of their attention and assistance. But what happens when workingclass people refuse to be respectable? When they choose to use strong language and won’t speak in soft tones? Wha…
Australian Working-Class Writing
Australian working-class poetry is as diverse as the working class and offers the reader great insight into working-class life, revealing much about the intersection of class, gender, and race
Punk Rock and the Value of Auto-ethnographic Writing about Music
Why do many of the books on punk rock and hardcore punk come with punk attitude? Why are a good number of the books written from a personal perspective? What kind of value do the diary entries of Nils Stevenson in 'Vacant: A Diary of the Punk Years 1976-79' have compared to an article on the rhetoric of class by David Simonelli in the journal 'Contemporary British History'? In some respects scholarly writing on punk rock seems like a contradictio…
The working class in the Australian mainstream media
The Australian mainstream media is dominated by middle-class voices, and this shapes the way working-class people are framed within the media. Working-class people have tended to be represented as responsible for their poverty, or ridiculed for their lack of sophistication. But could very small shifts be occurring, as some outlets acknowledge the impact of neo-liberalism on working-class people and point to some of the structural causes of inequa…
Punk Rock and the Value of Auto-ethnographic Writing about Music
Why do many of the books on punk rock and hardcore punk come with punk attitude? Why are a good number of the books written from a personal perspective? What kind of value do the diary entries of Nils Stevenson in 'Vacant: A Diary of the Punk Years 1976-79' have compared to an article on the rhetoric of class by David Simonelli in the journal 'Contemporary British History'? In some respects scholarly writing on punk rock seems like a contradictio…
Australian Working-Class Writing
Australian working-class poetry is as diverse as the working class and offers the reader great insight into working-class life, revealing much about the intersection of class, gender, and race
Rejecting Respectability
Many working-class people have aspired to respectability – maintaining cleanliness in the home, presenting an image of ‘niceness’ through neat modes of dress, or speaking ‘proper’. This respectability is intended to show those in power that working-class people are worthy of their attention and assistance. But what happens when workingclass people refuse to be respectable? When they choose to use strong language and won’t speak in soft tones? Wha…
The working class in the Australian mainstream media
The Australian mainstream media is dominated by middle-class voices, and this shapes the way working-class people are framed within the media. Working-class people have tended to be represented as responsible for their poverty, or ridiculed for their lack of sophistication. But could very small shifts be occurring, as some outlets acknowledge the impact of neo-liberalism on working-class people and point to some of the structural causes of inequa…
Finding the ‘perfect blend’ in an undervalued genre
Australian soap Neighbours (1985–2022) was in active production for nearly 40 years. As a piece of popular television, it is still syndicated internationally and also sold as a successful format for new works. Neighbours has also served as an outlet to launch new generations of Australian on- and off-screen talent. Despite these successes, Neighbours has been overlooked by tastemakers, academics and critics. This article places Neighbours in cont…
Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Working class (3 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (2 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (2 works)