Deborah Philips
Biographic Data
| ID | 209870 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deborah Philips |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deborah |
| FAMILY NAME | Philips |
| SIGNATURE | PHILIPS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Brighton |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0993-6978 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A treasured possession that has seen better days
The Repair Shop , is distinctive in the landscape of reality lifestyle television as it refuses any element of competition. The programme features a team of skilled craftspeople who use their expertise to restore an object that has no (or very little) monetary value, but which carries emotional weight for the members of the public who bring these items for repair. The damage done to an artefact is repaired through the cooperative work of skilled …
A Farewell to Fay Weldon
Gaslighting
Gaslighting' as a term derives from Patrick Hamilton's 1938 melodrama Gas Light, a play in which an older husband sets out to drive his wife to madness.These tropes, the suspiciously charming man, the claustrophobic domestic setting and the terrorized woman, would find new iterations in the first decades of the new millennium which saw the growth of a disturbing new genre described by publishers and booksellers as 'domestic noir'.In its discussio…
In defence of reading (and watching) trash
In Cultural Populism, Jim McGuigan argues that in British cultural studies ‘there is populist sentiment, but hardly any “sentimentality” is discernible’. There is, however, an arena of British cultural studies that has always been concerned with ‘sentiment’ and that is the romance narrative. This article argues that the study of popular fictions has always been integral to the history of cultural studies, and that it established a site in which f…
Cooking Doesn't Get Much Tougher than This”
Television cooking does link back to Reithian principles, in that it sets out to teach the audience; this has now been co-opted in favor of competitive individualism. MasterChef is yet another site for the discourse of enterprise, in which passion and competitiveness are required in the interests of neoliberalism
The New Miss India
Miss New India is the title of a 2011 novel by Indian-born (now American-based) Bharati Mukherjee, which tells the story of a young woman who leaves her small-town home and family to find work in a call centre in the information technology city of Bangalore.The call centre is emblematic of a ‘new India’, in which educated young people seize the possibilities of a global labour market.This is a generation for whom colonialism is ancient history, a…
Fairground Attractions
The study investigates the cultural production of the visual iconography of popular pleasure grounds from the eighteenth century pleasure garden to the contemporary theme park. Deborah Philips identifies the literary genres, including fairy tale, gothic horror, Egyptiana and the Western which are common to carnival sites, tracing their historical transition across a range of media to become familiar icons of popular culture.Though the bricolage o…
Mapping Literary Britain
The literary pilgrimage is a form of tourism that seeks out the landscapes and environments that shaped an author and their works. It is the illustrated literary guidebook to Britain (and often Ireland) that defines which authors and places are worthy of pilgrimage, draws these locations together, and points the literary tourist towards them. ‘Literary Britain’ is an object of the tourist gaze that has been constructed not only by tourist profess…
The Trojan Horse
This paper discusses the growth of commercial sponsorship in the United Kingdom and the way in which it served to legitimate the routine presence of commercial involvement in the public sector, paving the way for the development of PPP (Public Private Partnerships) and PFI (Private Finance Initiative). The establishment of the welfare state ethos during the 1940s included the principle of public support for cultural activity, although the actual …
Transformation scenes
The ‘transformation’ or ‘makeover’ of people and places has long been a standard feature of popular women’s magazines and is now a dominant form of television. The television design programme offers an uneasy interface between the private world of the domestic and the public world of television, a tension apparent in the conventions that surround the encounter between ‘ordinary’ people and television personalities in interior decoration programme…
Stately pleasure domes – nationhood, monarchy and industry
The Stately Pleasure Dome, the state sponsored national exhibition, offers a moment at which a sense of national identity is publicly declared and presented as cause for national celebration. This paper charts the shifts in the mechanisms for funding, the framing of the ‘British people’, industry and the role of the monarch at three distinct historical moments. In case studies of the Great Exhibition, the Festival of Britain and the Millennium Ex…
Consuming the West
Main Street, USA is the corridor to the Disneyland parks, whether in Los Angeles, Paris, Florida, or Tokyo. Main Street offers the appearance of a public space, with architectural references to civic institutions, but is a bounded and privatized site, which requires an entrance fee. Main Street offers a nostalgic construction of early twentieth century American small-town life. It is also the space in the theme parks that is most dedicated to con…
Feminism, Theory and the Politics of Difference
List of Illustrations. Preface. 1. The Question of Difference. 2. Challenging Patriarchy, Decentring Heterosexuality: Radical and Revolutionary Feminisms. 3. Lesbian Difference, Feminism and Queer Theory. 4. Psychoanalysis and Difference. 5. The Production and Subversion of Gender: Postmodern Approaches. 6. Class. 7. Race, Racism and the Problem of Whiteness. 8. Beyond Eurocentrism: Feminism and the Politics of Difference in a Global Frame. Notes…
Shopping for Men
Philips adresses a relatively new genre of fiction for women readers- including works by Jane Green, Freya North, Jane Gordon, Marian Keyes and the journalist Kathryn Flett- namely, that of the working woman romance narrative. These are novels that are addressed to a generation of young women who have independent incomes, are in work and are skilled consumers. The title, 'Shopping for Men', refers both to the consumption of men as objects of roma…
Keeping the home fires burning
(1996). Keeping the home fires burning: The myth of the independent woman in the Aga‐Saga. Women: A Cultural Review: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 48-54
Transformation scenes
The ‘transformation’ or ‘makeover’ of people and places has long been a standard feature of popular women’s magazines and is now a dominant form of television. The television design programme offers an uneasy interface between the private world of the domestic and the public world of television, a tension apparent in the conventions that surround the encounter between ‘ordinary’ people and television personalities in interior decoration programme…
Gaslighting
Gaslighting' as a term derives from Patrick Hamilton's 1938 melodrama Gas Light, a play in which an older husband sets out to drive his wife to madness.These tropes, the suspiciously charming man, the claustrophobic domestic setting and the terrorized woman, would find new iterations in the first decades of the new millennium which saw the growth of a disturbing new genre described by publishers and booksellers as 'domestic noir'.In its discussio…
Consuming the West
Main Street, USA is the corridor to the Disneyland parks, whether in Los Angeles, Paris, Florida, or Tokyo. Main Street offers the appearance of a public space, with architectural references to civic institutions, but is a bounded and privatized site, which requires an entrance fee. Main Street offers a nostalgic construction of early twentieth century American small-town life. It is also the space in the theme parks that is most dedicated to con…
Shopping for Men
Philips adresses a relatively new genre of fiction for women readers- including works by Jane Green, Freya North, Jane Gordon, Marian Keyes and the journalist Kathryn Flett- namely, that of the working woman romance narrative. These are novels that are addressed to a generation of young women who have independent incomes, are in work and are skilled consumers. The title, 'Shopping for Men', refers both to the consumption of men as objects of roma…
Cooking Doesn't Get Much Tougher than This”
Television cooking does link back to Reithian principles, in that it sets out to teach the audience; this has now been co-opted in favor of competitive individualism. MasterChef is yet another site for the discourse of enterprise, in which passion and competitiveness are required in the interests of neoliberalism
The New Miss India
Miss New India is the title of a 2011 novel by Indian-born (now American-based) Bharati Mukherjee, which tells the story of a young woman who leaves her small-town home and family to find work in a call centre in the information technology city of Bangalore.The call centre is emblematic of a ‘new India’, in which educated young people seize the possibilities of a global labour market.This is a generation for whom colonialism is ancient history, a…
Mapping Literary Britain
The literary pilgrimage is a form of tourism that seeks out the landscapes and environments that shaped an author and their works. It is the illustrated literary guidebook to Britain (and often Ireland) that defines which authors and places are worthy of pilgrimage, draws these locations together, and points the literary tourist towards them. ‘Literary Britain’ is an object of the tourist gaze that has been constructed not only by tourist profess…
Stately pleasure domes – nationhood, monarchy and industry
The Stately Pleasure Dome, the state sponsored national exhibition, offers a moment at which a sense of national identity is publicly declared and presented as cause for national celebration. This paper charts the shifts in the mechanisms for funding, the framing of the ‘British people’, industry and the role of the monarch at three distinct historical moments. In case studies of the Great Exhibition, the Festival of Britain and the Millennium Ex…
Keeping the home fires burning
(1996). Keeping the home fires burning: The myth of the independent woman in the Aga‐Saga. Women: A Cultural Review: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 48-54
Shopping for Men
Philips adresses a relatively new genre of fiction for women readers- including works by Jane Green, Freya North, Jane Gordon, Marian Keyes and the journalist Kathryn Flett- namely, that of the working woman romance narrative. These are novels that are addressed to a generation of young women who have independent incomes, are in work and are skilled consumers. The title, 'Shopping for Men', refers both to the consumption of men as objects of roma…
Feminism, Theory and the Politics of Difference
List of Illustrations. Preface. 1. The Question of Difference. 2. Challenging Patriarchy, Decentring Heterosexuality: Radical and Revolutionary Feminisms. 3. Lesbian Difference, Feminism and Queer Theory. 4. Psychoanalysis and Difference. 5. The Production and Subversion of Gender: Postmodern Approaches. 6. Class. 7. Race, Racism and the Problem of Whiteness. 8. Beyond Eurocentrism: Feminism and the Politics of Difference in a Global Frame. Notes…
Consuming the West
Main Street, USA is the corridor to the Disneyland parks, whether in Los Angeles, Paris, Florida, or Tokyo. Main Street offers the appearance of a public space, with architectural references to civic institutions, but is a bounded and privatized site, which requires an entrance fee. Main Street offers a nostalgic construction of early twentieth century American small-town life. It is also the space in the theme parks that is most dedicated to con…
Stately pleasure domes – nationhood, monarchy and industry
The Stately Pleasure Dome, the state sponsored national exhibition, offers a moment at which a sense of national identity is publicly declared and presented as cause for national celebration. This paper charts the shifts in the mechanisms for funding, the framing of the ‘British people’, industry and the role of the monarch at three distinct historical moments. In case studies of the Great Exhibition, the Festival of Britain and the Millennium Ex…
Transformation scenes
The ‘transformation’ or ‘makeover’ of people and places has long been a standard feature of popular women’s magazines and is now a dominant form of television. The television design programme offers an uneasy interface between the private world of the domestic and the public world of television, a tension apparent in the conventions that surround the encounter between ‘ordinary’ people and television personalities in interior decoration programme…
The Trojan Horse
This paper discusses the growth of commercial sponsorship in the United Kingdom and the way in which it served to legitimate the routine presence of commercial involvement in the public sector, paving the way for the development of PPP (Public Private Partnerships) and PFI (Private Finance Initiative). The establishment of the welfare state ethos during the 1940s included the principle of public support for cultural activity, although the actual …
Mapping Literary Britain
The literary pilgrimage is a form of tourism that seeks out the landscapes and environments that shaped an author and their works. It is the illustrated literary guidebook to Britain (and often Ireland) that defines which authors and places are worthy of pilgrimage, draws these locations together, and points the literary tourist towards them. ‘Literary Britain’ is an object of the tourist gaze that has been constructed not only by tourist profess…
Fairground Attractions
The study investigates the cultural production of the visual iconography of popular pleasure grounds from the eighteenth century pleasure garden to the contemporary theme park. Deborah Philips identifies the literary genres, including fairy tale, gothic horror, Egyptiana and the Western which are common to carnival sites, tracing their historical transition across a range of media to become familiar icons of popular culture.Though the bricolage o…
The New Miss India
Miss New India is the title of a 2011 novel by Indian-born (now American-based) Bharati Mukherjee, which tells the story of a young woman who leaves her small-town home and family to find work in a call centre in the information technology city of Bangalore.The call centre is emblematic of a ‘new India’, in which educated young people seize the possibilities of a global labour market.This is a generation for whom colonialism is ancient history, a…
Cooking Doesn't Get Much Tougher than This”
Television cooking does link back to Reithian principles, in that it sets out to teach the audience; this has now been co-opted in favor of competitive individualism. MasterChef is yet another site for the discourse of enterprise, in which passion and competitiveness are required in the interests of neoliberalism
In defence of reading (and watching) trash
In Cultural Populism, Jim McGuigan argues that in British cultural studies ‘there is populist sentiment, but hardly any “sentimentality” is discernible’. There is, however, an arena of British cultural studies that has always been concerned with ‘sentiment’ and that is the romance narrative. This article argues that the study of popular fictions has always been integral to the history of cultural studies, and that it established a site in which f…
Gaslighting
Gaslighting' as a term derives from Patrick Hamilton's 1938 melodrama Gas Light, a play in which an older husband sets out to drive his wife to madness.These tropes, the suspiciously charming man, the claustrophobic domestic setting and the terrorized woman, would find new iterations in the first decades of the new millennium which saw the growth of a disturbing new genre described by publishers and booksellers as 'domestic noir'.In its discussio…
A Farewell to Fay Weldon
A treasured possession that has seen better days
The Repair Shop , is distinctive in the landscape of reality lifestyle television as it refuses any element of competition. The programme features a team of skilled craftspeople who use their expertise to restore an object that has no (or very little) monetary value, but which carries emotional weight for the members of the public who bring these items for repair. The damage done to an artefact is repaired through the cooperative work of skilled …
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