Chris Tinker
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3587316 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Chris Tinker |
| PRENOMES | Chris |
| SOBRENOME | Tinker |
| ASSINATURA | TINKER C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Heriot-Watt University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2000 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
(Re-)defining the popular music “Gay icon” in media coverage of Dalida and Mylène Farmer
Defining queer in UK and French press coverage of Christine and the Queens
This article, informed by concerns of queer theory, features of celebrity journalism, and ethical developments in journalism, discusses how British and French generalist press coverage of the popular music artist Héloïse Letissier and his associated public media personas, conceives of the term queer. Coverage relating to the term emphasizes (auto)biographical and career developments, gender and sexual identities, non-normativity, a lack of commer…
Introduction to the broken mirror
It’s complicated. For me, the experience is that the more you explore, the less you’re sure, in a way. And the more you explore, the more it changes. I say I’m a woman, but I’m exploring desire as a force of chaos that surprises me. And through desire, I get to explore many different identities. I don’t feel like I’m trapped in my woman’s body. I’m loving that woman’s body, actually. I love also the versatility of it – how easily I can look like …
Posthumous celebrity, persona and memorialisation
Focusing on the popular music artist Johnny Hallyday in the immediate aftermath of his death in 2017, this article shows how his initial posthumous newspaper coverage in France exhibits many of the general features of celebrity news and journalism, draws a broadly positive consensus around his public persona when alive while opening up possible areas for discussion or debate and represents his memorialisation as a particular site of division
Coming out and beyond
Through an analysis of French mediated celebrity discourse this article examines how pop musicians negotiate same-sex desire and self-disclosure in contemporary France. Coverage of Eddy de Pretto and Emmanuel Moire in popular online magazine and newspaper articles is analyzed in terms of a framework that takes into account the context of dominant and normalizing discourses. Coverage exhibits a substantial range of shared and individual approaches…
Coluche and posthumous celebrity
The French comic, actor and humanitarian Coluche represents an important and enduring example of celebrity in contemporary France, yet little academic attention has been paid particularly to his posthumous significance. A detailed survey of French press and television coverage over the last decade reveals competing media discourses concerning his importance as a source of nostalgia, accusations of vulgarity and racism in his work, and his portray…
Listening to the French New Wave. The Film Music and Composers of Postwar French Art Cinema
Listening to the French New Wave. The Film Music and Composers of Postwar French Art Cinema." Modern & Contemporary France, 24(2), pp. 232–233
Media, Memory and Nostalgia in Contemporary France
Following the launch of a series of conferences in 2013 by the ASMCF-affiliated French Media Research Group, this special issue aims to provide a survey of the range of representations of nostalgia
The RFM Party 80 and Here and Now Tours
This article compares the ways in which French and British newspaper discourse has approached nostalgia—as an emotion, social experience and cultural value—in coverage of the 1980s popular music tours RFM Party 80 and Here and Now (2001–2011). Similarities in French and British approaches include an emphasis on joy, the festive, an imagined return to youth, unquestioning nostalgia, social cohesion as well as stereotypical views of 1980s popular m…
Genre, gender and the Republic
Les Enfoirés, the long-running televised benefit concert in aid of the Restos du Cœur charity, has been an annual fixture in the French schedules since 1992. Existing academic accounts of the concert have highlighted the diversity of its performers and a sense of solidarity, unanimity and consensus. Drawing on archive research carried out at the French broadcasting archives (Inathèque, Paris), this article shows how television coverage of the Enf…
Mixed Masculinities in 1960s B ritish and F rench Y outh M agazines
Âge tendre et têtes de bois
This article examines the significance of popular-music-related nostalgia broadcast on French television, particularly since the launch of the successful Âge tendre et têtes de bois series of concert tours in 2006 and holiday cruises in 2008. Building on existing academic accounts, particularly in psychological science and consumer and marketing research, my study demonstrates how television coverage of popular music emphasises joy, rather than t…
Shaping 1960s youth in Britain and France
Existing accounts of Fabulous (later Fabulous 208) and Salut les copains ( SLC) – two of the most successful youth magazines in Britain and France during the 1960s – have tended to highlight the ‘rapport’ that they fostered between music artists and young readers. However, the representation of youth in both magazines was, in fact, much more extensive, if not complex, when viewed in relation to the official, academic and other media discourses of…
Media and music in France
In search of Variétés
This article focuses on an early example of the varietes television genre, the long-running Discorama, presented for the most part by Denise Glaser. While existing commentaries have emphasized the role of the programme as a launch-pad for French singer-songwriters, situated it within a realist televisual aesthetic, and regarded it as symptomatic of de Gaulle's statist broadcasting strategy, this study will show how Discorama also contributed duri…
One State, One Television, One Public’
This article seeks to reappraise two popular yet neglected examples of variety programming, which appeared on French television during the 1960s: Discorama and Age tendre et tête de bois. While the former has been situated within a realist televisual aesthetic and regarded as a launch-pad for French singer-songwriters, the latter has been represented as a youth-oriented vehicle for rock ‘n’ roll and yé-yé pop music. Although such interpretations …
Shaping Youth in Salut les copains
The focus of this article is the monthly youth magazine Salut les copains (SLC), which has become synonymous with the rapid development of mass youth culture in France during the 1960s. Although the few existing academic accounts of SLC tend generally to emphasise the neutrality of its content, an in-depth study of the magazine reveals a more unequivocal approach, for example, towards the subject of youth as a community of copains. The magazine v…
Jacques Brel is Alive and Well
Focusing on some of the most significant English-language versions of Jacques Brel’s chansons in North America and the UK, this article will discuss some of the competing practices and discourses around the process of adaptation. Three distinct approaches are identified: the first, epitomised by the work of the singer–songwriter Rod McKuen, is aimed primarily at commercial, mainstream audiences. The second approach, exemplified by the musical rev…
Jacques Demy's Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967)
Anti-Nationalism in Postwar French Chanson
Taking what is an extremely important period in the development of French popular music as its focus, this article discusses how Léo Ferré, Georges Brassens and Jacques Brel, the major singer-songwriters of the postwar period, opposed nationalism through the medium of chanson . While Brel fiercely regretted the internal divisions of his native Belgium, Ferré and Brassens questioned France's relationship with her external 'others', particularly wi…
Serge Gainsbourg and Le Défi américain
This article discusses how the singer-songwriter, Serge Gainsbourg, responded through the medium of song to the new socio-economic model which the USA came to represent, especially during the 1960s. Although certain songs express an ambivalent attitude towards the promotion of the société de consommation as well as the proliferation of American mass culture in France, these particular processes of modernisation are ultimately viewed as inexorable…
A singer-songwriter's view of the French record industry
Léo Ferré exemplifies what is now widely regarded in France as the golden era of la chanson française during the 1950s and 1960s. This article examines how one singer-songwriter attempted to deal in his own, highly idiosyncratic way with the contraints of working within the record industry, and focuses on the development of his ambivalent relationship with the record label owner and producer, Eddie Barclay. Although sympathetic to Ferré's cause, …
Representing Paris
Âge tendre et têtes de bois
This article examines the significance of popular-music-related nostalgia broadcast on French television, particularly since the launch of the successful Âge tendre et têtes de bois series of concert tours in 2006 and holiday cruises in 2008. Building on existing academic accounts, particularly in psychological science and consumer and marketing research, my study demonstrates how television coverage of popular music emphasises joy, rather than t…
Posthumous celebrity, persona and memorialisation
Focusing on the popular music artist Johnny Hallyday in the immediate aftermath of his death in 2017, this article shows how his initial posthumous newspaper coverage in France exhibits many of the general features of celebrity news and journalism, draws a broadly positive consensus around his public persona when alive while opening up possible areas for discussion or debate and represents his memorialisation as a particular site of division
Shaping Youth in Salut les copains
The focus of this article is the monthly youth magazine Salut les copains (SLC), which has become synonymous with the rapid development of mass youth culture in France during the 1960s. Although the few existing academic accounts of SLC tend generally to emphasise the neutrality of its content, an in-depth study of the magazine reveals a more unequivocal approach, for example, towards the subject of youth as a community of copains. The magazine v…
The RFM Party 80 and Here and Now Tours
This article compares the ways in which French and British newspaper discourse has approached nostalgia—as an emotion, social experience and cultural value—in coverage of the 1980s popular music tours RFM Party 80 and Here and Now (2001–2011). Similarities in French and British approaches include an emphasis on joy, the festive, an imagined return to youth, unquestioning nostalgia, social cohesion as well as stereotypical views of 1980s popular m…
Mixed Masculinities in 1960s B ritish and F rench Y outh M agazines
One State, One Television, One Public’
This article seeks to reappraise two popular yet neglected examples of variety programming, which appeared on French television during the 1960s: Discorama and Age tendre et tête de bois. While the former has been situated within a realist televisual aesthetic and regarded as a launch-pad for French singer-songwriters, the latter has been represented as a youth-oriented vehicle for rock ‘n’ roll and yé-yé pop music. Although such interpretations …
Jacques Brel is Alive and Well
Focusing on some of the most significant English-language versions of Jacques Brel’s chansons in North America and the UK, this article will discuss some of the competing practices and discourses around the process of adaptation. Three distinct approaches are identified: the first, epitomised by the work of the singer–songwriter Rod McKuen, is aimed primarily at commercial, mainstream audiences. The second approach, exemplified by the musical rev…
Serge Gainsbourg and Le Défi américain
This article discusses how the singer-songwriter, Serge Gainsbourg, responded through the medium of song to the new socio-economic model which the USA came to represent, especially during the 1960s. Although certain songs express an ambivalent attitude towards the promotion of the société de consommation as well as the proliferation of American mass culture in France, these particular processes of modernisation are ultimately viewed as inexorable…
A singer-songwriter's view of the French record industry
Léo Ferré exemplifies what is now widely regarded in France as the golden era of la chanson française during the 1950s and 1960s. This article examines how one singer-songwriter attempted to deal in his own, highly idiosyncratic way with the contraints of working within the record industry, and focuses on the development of his ambivalent relationship with the record label owner and producer, Eddie Barclay. Although sympathetic to Ferré's cause, …
Representing Paris
Anti-Nationalism in Postwar French Chanson
Taking what is an extremely important period in the development of French popular music as its focus, this article discusses how Léo Ferré, Georges Brassens and Jacques Brel, the major singer-songwriters of the postwar period, opposed nationalism through the medium of chanson . While Brel fiercely regretted the internal divisions of his native Belgium, Ferré and Brassens questioned France's relationship with her external 'others', particularly wi…
Serge Gainsbourg and Le Défi américain
This article discusses how the singer-songwriter, Serge Gainsbourg, responded through the medium of song to the new socio-economic model which the USA came to represent, especially during the 1960s. Although certain songs express an ambivalent attitude towards the promotion of the société de consommation as well as the proliferation of American mass culture in France, these particular processes of modernisation are ultimately viewed as inexorable…
A singer-songwriter's view of the French record industry
Léo Ferré exemplifies what is now widely regarded in France as the golden era of la chanson française during the 1950s and 1960s. This article examines how one singer-songwriter attempted to deal in his own, highly idiosyncratic way with the contraints of working within the record industry, and focuses on the development of his ambivalent relationship with the record label owner and producer, Eddie Barclay. Although sympathetic to Ferré's cause, …
Jacques Demy's Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967)
Jacques Brel is Alive and Well
Focusing on some of the most significant English-language versions of Jacques Brel’s chansons in North America and the UK, this article will discuss some of the competing practices and discourses around the process of adaptation. Three distinct approaches are identified: the first, epitomised by the work of the singer–songwriter Rod McKuen, is aimed primarily at commercial, mainstream audiences. The second approach, exemplified by the musical rev…
Shaping Youth in Salut les copains
The focus of this article is the monthly youth magazine Salut les copains (SLC), which has become synonymous with the rapid development of mass youth culture in France during the 1960s. Although the few existing academic accounts of SLC tend generally to emphasise the neutrality of its content, an in-depth study of the magazine reveals a more unequivocal approach, for example, towards the subject of youth as a community of copains. The magazine v…
One State, One Television, One Public’
This article seeks to reappraise two popular yet neglected examples of variety programming, which appeared on French television during the 1960s: Discorama and Age tendre et tête de bois. While the former has been situated within a realist televisual aesthetic and regarded as a launch-pad for French singer-songwriters, the latter has been represented as a youth-oriented vehicle for rock ‘n’ roll and yé-yé pop music. Although such interpretations …
Shaping 1960s youth in Britain and France
Existing accounts of Fabulous (later Fabulous 208) and Salut les copains ( SLC) – two of the most successful youth magazines in Britain and France during the 1960s – have tended to highlight the ‘rapport’ that they fostered between music artists and young readers. However, the representation of youth in both magazines was, in fact, much more extensive, if not complex, when viewed in relation to the official, academic and other media discourses of…
Media and music in France
In search of Variétés
This article focuses on an early example of the varietes television genre, the long-running Discorama, presented for the most part by Denise Glaser. While existing commentaries have emphasized the role of the programme as a launch-pad for French singer-songwriters, situated it within a realist televisual aesthetic, and regarded it as symptomatic of de Gaulle's statist broadcasting strategy, this study will show how Discorama also contributed duri…
Âge tendre et têtes de bois
This article examines the significance of popular-music-related nostalgia broadcast on French television, particularly since the launch of the successful Âge tendre et têtes de bois series of concert tours in 2006 and holiday cruises in 2008. Building on existing academic accounts, particularly in psychological science and consumer and marketing research, my study demonstrates how television coverage of popular music emphasises joy, rather than t…
Mixed Masculinities in 1960s B ritish and F rench Y outh M agazines
Media, Memory and Nostalgia in Contemporary France
Following the launch of a series of conferences in 2013 by the ASMCF-affiliated French Media Research Group, this special issue aims to provide a survey of the range of representations of nostalgia
The RFM Party 80 and Here and Now Tours
This article compares the ways in which French and British newspaper discourse has approached nostalgia—as an emotion, social experience and cultural value—in coverage of the 1980s popular music tours RFM Party 80 and Here and Now (2001–2011). Similarities in French and British approaches include an emphasis on joy, the festive, an imagined return to youth, unquestioning nostalgia, social cohesion as well as stereotypical views of 1980s popular m…
Genre, gender and the Republic
Les Enfoirés, the long-running televised benefit concert in aid of the Restos du Cœur charity, has been an annual fixture in the French schedules since 1992. Existing academic accounts of the concert have highlighted the diversity of its performers and a sense of solidarity, unanimity and consensus. Drawing on archive research carried out at the French broadcasting archives (Inathèque, Paris), this article shows how television coverage of the Enf…
Listening to the French New Wave. The Film Music and Composers of Postwar French Art Cinema
Listening to the French New Wave. The Film Music and Composers of Postwar French Art Cinema." Modern & Contemporary France, 24(2), pp. 232–233
Coluche and posthumous celebrity
The French comic, actor and humanitarian Coluche represents an important and enduring example of celebrity in contemporary France, yet little academic attention has been paid particularly to his posthumous significance. A detailed survey of French press and television coverage over the last decade reveals competing media discourses concerning his importance as a source of nostalgia, accusations of vulgarity and racism in his work, and his portray…
Coming out and beyond
Through an analysis of French mediated celebrity discourse this article examines how pop musicians negotiate same-sex desire and self-disclosure in contemporary France. Coverage of Eddy de Pretto and Emmanuel Moire in popular online magazine and newspaper articles is analyzed in terms of a framework that takes into account the context of dominant and normalizing discourses. Coverage exhibits a substantial range of shared and individual approaches…
Posthumous celebrity, persona and memorialisation
Focusing on the popular music artist Johnny Hallyday in the immediate aftermath of his death in 2017, this article shows how his initial posthumous newspaper coverage in France exhibits many of the general features of celebrity news and journalism, draws a broadly positive consensus around his public persona when alive while opening up possible areas for discussion or debate and represents his memorialisation as a particular site of division
Defining queer in UK and French press coverage of Christine and the Queens
This article, informed by concerns of queer theory, features of celebrity journalism, and ethical developments in journalism, discusses how British and French generalist press coverage of the popular music artist Héloïse Letissier and his associated public media personas, conceives of the term queer. Coverage relating to the term emphasizes (auto)biographical and career developments, gender and sexual identities, non-normativity, a lack of commer…
Introduction to the broken mirror
It’s complicated. For me, the experience is that the more you explore, the less you’re sure, in a way. And the more you explore, the more it changes. I say I’m a woman, but I’m exploring desire as a force of chaos that surprises me. And through desire, I get to explore many different identities. I don’t feel like I’m trapped in my woman’s body. I’m loving that woman’s body, actually. I love also the versatility of it – how easily I can look like …
(Re-)defining the popular music “Gay icon” in media coverage of Dalida and Mylène Farmer
Art (18 obras) · Sociology (17 obras) · Media studies (13 obras) · French Historical and Cultural Studies (12 obras) · Political science (12 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Law (10 obras) · Aesthetics (9 obras) · History (8 obras) · Art history (7 obras)