Holme
Biographic Data
| ID | 22871 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Holme |
| FAMILY NAME | Holme |
| SIGNATURE | HOLME |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East Anglia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4243-8337 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Female audiences for true crime television
This article draws on data from 18 semi-structured interviews with women which explore their relations with true crime television. Complicating popular and academic arguments that such relations operate pedagogically (that true crime offers a form of 'safety advice' for women), the data attests to the participants' reflexive negotiation of ethics as a frame through which viewing investments are presented, regulated and articulated. Both contribut…
Key stakeholder perspectives on primary care for young people with an eating disorder
This paper examines the provision of primary care for young people with an eating disorder within the UK from the perspectives of three key stakeholder groups: young people with an eating disorder, carers of young people with an eating disorder and General Practitioners (GPs). Twenty‐two young people with an eating disorder (aged 16–25) and 10 carers completed qualitative questionnaires or participated in interviews about their experiences of see…
Regulating “untrustworthy patients”
Trust has been seen as a lynchpin of therapeutic relationships. Yet due to perceptions that anorexia is one of the most difficult illnesses to treat and that patients are “treatment resistant”, achieving trust between patient and treatment provider may be challenging. This article draws on qualitative data from 14 semi-structured interviews with women who have experience of inpatient treatment for anorexia in order to analyse how trust and distru…
Why Hadn't I Come Across This Sooner
This article explores discursive intersections between ‘feminism’ and ‘eating disorders’, with a particular focus on eating disorder (ED) treatment. In doing so, it draws upon two sets of original qualitative data on how women with experience of an ED responded to 1) the idea of using feminist perspectives in ED treatment 2), a 10-week in-patient group based on feminist approaches to EDs. In exploring this data, the article seeks to contribute to…
The role of sociocultural perspectives in eating disorder treatment
Eating disorders are now often approached as biopsychosocial problems, because they are widely recognised as multifactorial in origin. However, it has been suggested that there is a substantial and unwarranted imbalance within this biopsychosocial framework, with the 'social' aspects of the equation relegated to secondary or facilitating factors within treatment contexts. Drawing on data from 12 qualitative interviews with health professionals in…
Surely the most natural scenario in the world
Historically, the majority of work on British children's television has adopted either an institutional or an audience focus, with the texts themselves often overlooked. This neglect has meant that questions of representation in British children's television - including issues such as family, gender, class or ethnicity - have been infrequently analysed in the UK context. In this article, we adopt a primarily qualitative methodology and analyse th…
Little Lena's a Big Girl Now”
Lena Zavaroni became famous as a child star on the British TV talent show Opportunity Knocks in 1974, suffered from anorexia from age thirteen, and subsequently died from complications associated with the problem in 1999, age thirty-five. This article uses 165 press articles from 1974 to 1999 to analyse how Zavaroni's relationship with anorexia was constructed in the British popular press. Existing feminist work suggests that stars with anorexia …
Between feminism and anorexia
Critical feminist work on eating disorders has grown substantially since its establishment in the 1980s, and has increasingly incorporated the use of anorexic stories, voices and experiences. Yet rarely do such accounts offer the anorexic a space to respond to the now established feminist conceptions of the problem which structure the books or articles in which they appear. Anorexic or recovered anorexic voices are used by the researcher to inter…
Whoever Heard of Anyone Being a Screaming Success for Doing Nothing?’
Drawing on archival sources from the BBC Written Archive Centre, including press coverage, memos and scripts, this article seeks to contribute to historical work on celebrity by exploring the discourses surrounding television fame through the prism of ‘Sabrina’—a young woman made famous by BBC television in the mid-1950s as the ‘bosomy blonde who didn't talk’. It is particularly productive to excavate this case study of Sabrina right now, when po…
Roundtable
London and New York: Routledge, 2009, 266 pp., US$140.00 (hbk), US$39.95 (pbk), ISBN 0-415-41915-8 (hbk), 0-415-41916-6 (pbk) Michael Bailey, Su Holmes, Siân Nicholas and Tom O'Malley Response by J
This Outlet for Criticism Could Ginger up the Whole Climate in which Television is Watched
'The viewers have … taken over the airwaves'? Participation, reality TV and approaching the audience-in-the-text
Through reality TV, television has become increasingly fascinated by our power relations with the medium. As such, it pivots on the concept which has historically occupied centre stage in the study of media audiences. But the advent of interactivity has also prompted calls for a reassessment of the relations between viewer and text, production and consumption, agency and authorship. This essay suggests that this shift need not lead us away from t…
Riveting and real — a family in the raw
Paul Watson's 12-part documentary serial, The Family (BBC, 1974), focused on the lives of the working-class Wilkins family from Reading. Along with An American Family (PBS, 1973), The Family has been positioned as a landmark precursor to reality TV. Yet it has largely been referred to rather than analysed, and the potential relationship at work between `then' and `now' is often obscured. In seeking to (re)construct the popular reception of The Fa…
Restyling Factual TV
Journal Article Restyling Factual TV: Audiences and News, Documentary and Reality Genres Get access Annette Hill, Restyling Factual TV: Audiences and News, Documentary and Reality Genres. London: Routledge, 2007, 263 pp. Su Holmes Su Holmes Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 49, Issue 2, Summer 2008, Pages 246–249, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/hjn027 Published: 01 July 2008
The BBC and television fame in the 1950s
This article aims to contribute to historical knowledge about television's relations with fame, while simultaneously exploring the conceptual tools used to study this field. With this in mind, this article examines two case studies from the 1950s: the BBC's popular serial The Grove Family and the interview-in-depth programme Face to Face . A key aim is to draw out the different meanings which circulated around television's relations with fame. Te…
The Audience is Dead; Long Live the Audience
Not the Final Answer
The article aims to address and explore the apparent neglect of the quiz show in television and cultural studies by focusing on the programme Who Wants To Be A Millionaire(1998–, UK). Existing work in the field emerged in the late 1970s/early 1980s, and this article argues that a key reason for critical neglect of the quiz show is the centrality of 'class' in the genre – a focus which has increasingly receded from view in television and cultural …
Off-guard, Unkempt, Unready’
A recent report on ITV1’s News at Ten (13 Sep. 2003, UK) featured the latest developments in the changing marriage plans of stars Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck. The ‘expert’ used to explain the un
It's a woman
Journal Article ‘It's a Woman!’: the question of gender on Who Wants to be a Millionaire Get access Su Holmes Su Holmes Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 46, Issue 2, Summer 2005, Pages 155–173, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/46.2.155 Published: 01 July 2005
But this Time You Choose
The concept of ‘interactivity’ has gained increasing currency in relation to television. At the level of programming, at least, this has been made visible with the phenomenal rise of reality TV. Phrases such as ‘ You decide!’ ( Big Brother), ‘But this time you choose!’ ( Pop Idol) and ‘If you want to have your say’ ( The Salon) proliferate in contemporary television, articulating a rhetoric that insists pressingly upon a ‘new’ participatory relat…
The Infant Medium with the Adult Manner'; the 'X' film 'on television', 1952‐1962
But this Time You Choose
The concept of ‘interactivity’ has gained increasing currency in relation to television. At the level of programming, at least, this has been made visible with the phenomenal rise of reality TV. Phrases such as ‘ You decide!’ ( Big Brother), ‘But this time you choose!’ ( Pop Idol) and ‘If you want to have your say’ ( The Salon) proliferate in contemporary television, articulating a rhetoric that insists pressingly upon a ‘new’ participatory relat…
Off-guard, Unkempt, Unready’
A recent report on ITV1’s News at Ten (13 Sep. 2003, UK) featured the latest developments in the changing marriage plans of stars Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck. The ‘expert’ used to explain the un
Little Lena's a Big Girl Now”
Lena Zavaroni became famous as a child star on the British TV talent show Opportunity Knocks in 1974, suffered from anorexia from age thirteen, and subsequently died from complications associated with the problem in 1999, age thirty-five. This article uses 165 press articles from 1974 to 1999 to analyse how Zavaroni's relationship with anorexia was constructed in the British popular press. Existing feminist work suggests that stars with anorexia …
Restyling Factual TV
Journal Article Restyling Factual TV: Audiences and News, Documentary and Reality Genres Get access Annette Hill, Restyling Factual TV: Audiences and News, Documentary and Reality Genres. London: Routledge, 2007, 263 pp. Su Holmes Su Holmes Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 49, Issue 2, Summer 2008, Pages 246–249, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/hjn027 Published: 01 July 2008
Regulating “untrustworthy patients”
Trust has been seen as a lynchpin of therapeutic relationships. Yet due to perceptions that anorexia is one of the most difficult illnesses to treat and that patients are “treatment resistant”, achieving trust between patient and treatment provider may be challenging. This article draws on qualitative data from 14 semi-structured interviews with women who have experience of inpatient treatment for anorexia in order to analyse how trust and distru…
Between feminism and anorexia
Critical feminist work on eating disorders has grown substantially since its establishment in the 1980s, and has increasingly incorporated the use of anorexic stories, voices and experiences. Yet rarely do such accounts offer the anorexic a space to respond to the now established feminist conceptions of the problem which structure the books or articles in which they appear. Anorexic or recovered anorexic voices are used by the researcher to inter…
Riveting and real — a family in the raw
Paul Watson's 12-part documentary serial, The Family (BBC, 1974), focused on the lives of the working-class Wilkins family from Reading. Along with An American Family (PBS, 1973), The Family has been positioned as a landmark precursor to reality TV. Yet it has largely been referred to rather than analysed, and the potential relationship at work between `then' and `now' is often obscured. In seeking to (re)construct the popular reception of The Fa…
The BBC and television fame in the 1950s
This article aims to contribute to historical knowledge about television's relations with fame, while simultaneously exploring the conceptual tools used to study this field. With this in mind, this article examines two case studies from the 1950s: the BBC's popular serial The Grove Family and the interview-in-depth programme Face to Face . A key aim is to draw out the different meanings which circulated around television's relations with fame. Te…
Not the Final Answer
The article aims to address and explore the apparent neglect of the quiz show in television and cultural studies by focusing on the programme Who Wants To Be A Millionaire(1998–, UK). Existing work in the field emerged in the late 1970s/early 1980s, and this article argues that a key reason for critical neglect of the quiz show is the centrality of 'class' in the genre – a focus which has increasingly receded from view in television and cultural …
Female audiences for true crime television
This article draws on data from 18 semi-structured interviews with women which explore their relations with true crime television. Complicating popular and academic arguments that such relations operate pedagogically (that true crime offers a form of 'safety advice' for women), the data attests to the participants' reflexive negotiation of ethics as a frame through which viewing investments are presented, regulated and articulated. Both contribut…
Roundtable
London and New York: Routledge, 2009, 266 pp., US$140.00 (hbk), US$39.95 (pbk), ISBN 0-415-41915-8 (hbk), 0-415-41916-6 (pbk) Michael Bailey, Su Holmes, Siân Nicholas and Tom O'Malley Response by J
This Outlet for Criticism Could Ginger up the Whole Climate in which Television is Watched
The Audience is Dead; Long Live the Audience
The Infant Medium with the Adult Manner'; the 'X' film 'on television', 1952‐1962
But this Time You Choose
The concept of ‘interactivity’ has gained increasing currency in relation to television. At the level of programming, at least, this has been made visible with the phenomenal rise of reality TV. Phrases such as ‘ You decide!’ ( Big Brother), ‘But this time you choose!’ ( Pop Idol) and ‘If you want to have your say’ ( The Salon) proliferate in contemporary television, articulating a rhetoric that insists pressingly upon a ‘new’ participatory relat…
Not the Final Answer
The article aims to address and explore the apparent neglect of the quiz show in television and cultural studies by focusing on the programme Who Wants To Be A Millionaire(1998–, UK). Existing work in the field emerged in the late 1970s/early 1980s, and this article argues that a key reason for critical neglect of the quiz show is the centrality of 'class' in the genre – a focus which has increasingly receded from view in television and cultural …
Off-guard, Unkempt, Unready’
A recent report on ITV1’s News at Ten (13 Sep. 2003, UK) featured the latest developments in the changing marriage plans of stars Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck. The ‘expert’ used to explain the un
It's a woman
Journal Article ‘It's a Woman!’: the question of gender on Who Wants to be a Millionaire Get access Su Holmes Su Holmes Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 46, Issue 2, Summer 2005, Pages 155–173, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/46.2.155 Published: 01 July 2005
The Audience is Dead; Long Live the Audience
The BBC and television fame in the 1950s
This article aims to contribute to historical knowledge about television's relations with fame, while simultaneously exploring the conceptual tools used to study this field. With this in mind, this article examines two case studies from the 1950s: the BBC's popular serial The Grove Family and the interview-in-depth programme Face to Face . A key aim is to draw out the different meanings which circulated around television's relations with fame. Te…
'The viewers have … taken over the airwaves'? Participation, reality TV and approaching the audience-in-the-text
Through reality TV, television has become increasingly fascinated by our power relations with the medium. As such, it pivots on the concept which has historically occupied centre stage in the study of media audiences. But the advent of interactivity has also prompted calls for a reassessment of the relations between viewer and text, production and consumption, agency and authorship. This essay suggests that this shift need not lead us away from t…
Riveting and real — a family in the raw
Paul Watson's 12-part documentary serial, The Family (BBC, 1974), focused on the lives of the working-class Wilkins family from Reading. Along with An American Family (PBS, 1973), The Family has been positioned as a landmark precursor to reality TV. Yet it has largely been referred to rather than analysed, and the potential relationship at work between `then' and `now' is often obscured. In seeking to (re)construct the popular reception of The Fa…
Restyling Factual TV
Journal Article Restyling Factual TV: Audiences and News, Documentary and Reality Genres Get access Annette Hill, Restyling Factual TV: Audiences and News, Documentary and Reality Genres. London: Routledge, 2007, 263 pp. Su Holmes Su Holmes Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 49, Issue 2, Summer 2008, Pages 246–249, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/hjn027 Published: 01 July 2008
This Outlet for Criticism Could Ginger up the Whole Climate in which Television is Watched
Roundtable
London and New York: Routledge, 2009, 266 pp., US$140.00 (hbk), US$39.95 (pbk), ISBN 0-415-41915-8 (hbk), 0-415-41916-6 (pbk) Michael Bailey, Su Holmes, Siân Nicholas and Tom O'Malley Response by J
Whoever Heard of Anyone Being a Screaming Success for Doing Nothing?’
Drawing on archival sources from the BBC Written Archive Centre, including press coverage, memos and scripts, this article seeks to contribute to historical work on celebrity by exploring the discourses surrounding television fame through the prism of ‘Sabrina’—a young woman made famous by BBC television in the mid-1950s as the ‘bosomy blonde who didn't talk’. It is particularly productive to excavate this case study of Sabrina right now, when po…
Between feminism and anorexia
Critical feminist work on eating disorders has grown substantially since its establishment in the 1980s, and has increasingly incorporated the use of anorexic stories, voices and experiences. Yet rarely do such accounts offer the anorexic a space to respond to the now established feminist conceptions of the problem which structure the books or articles in which they appear. Anorexic or recovered anorexic voices are used by the researcher to inter…
Little Lena's a Big Girl Now”
Lena Zavaroni became famous as a child star on the British TV talent show Opportunity Knocks in 1974, suffered from anorexia from age thirteen, and subsequently died from complications associated with the problem in 1999, age thirty-five. This article uses 165 press articles from 1974 to 1999 to analyse how Zavaroni's relationship with anorexia was constructed in the British popular press. Existing feminist work suggests that stars with anorexia …
Surely the most natural scenario in the world
Historically, the majority of work on British children's television has adopted either an institutional or an audience focus, with the texts themselves often overlooked. This neglect has meant that questions of representation in British children's television - including issues such as family, gender, class or ethnicity - have been infrequently analysed in the UK context. In this article, we adopt a primarily qualitative methodology and analyse th…
The role of sociocultural perspectives in eating disorder treatment
Eating disorders are now often approached as biopsychosocial problems, because they are widely recognised as multifactorial in origin. However, it has been suggested that there is a substantial and unwarranted imbalance within this biopsychosocial framework, with the 'social' aspects of the equation relegated to secondary or facilitating factors within treatment contexts. Drawing on data from 12 qualitative interviews with health professionals in…
Why Hadn't I Come Across This Sooner
This article explores discursive intersections between ‘feminism’ and ‘eating disorders’, with a particular focus on eating disorder (ED) treatment. In doing so, it draws upon two sets of original qualitative data on how women with experience of an ED responded to 1) the idea of using feminist perspectives in ED treatment 2), a 10-week in-patient group based on feminist approaches to EDs. In exploring this data, the article seeks to contribute to…
Key stakeholder perspectives on primary care for young people with an eating disorder
This paper examines the provision of primary care for young people with an eating disorder within the UK from the perspectives of three key stakeholder groups: young people with an eating disorder, carers of young people with an eating disorder and General Practitioners (GPs). Twenty‐two young people with an eating disorder (aged 16–25) and 10 carers completed qualitative questionnaires or participated in interviews about their experiences of see…
Regulating “untrustworthy patients”
Trust has been seen as a lynchpin of therapeutic relationships. Yet due to perceptions that anorexia is one of the most difficult illnesses to treat and that patients are “treatment resistant”, achieving trust between patient and treatment provider may be challenging. This article draws on qualitative data from 14 semi-structured interviews with women who have experience of inpatient treatment for anorexia in order to analyse how trust and distru…
Female audiences for true crime television
This article draws on data from 18 semi-structured interviews with women which explore their relations with true crime television. Complicating popular and academic arguments that such relations operate pedagogically (that true crime offers a form of 'safety advice' for women), the data attests to the participants' reflexive negotiation of ethics as a frame through which viewing investments are presented, regulated and articulated. Both contribut…
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