Hannah Andrews
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674196 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hannah Andrews |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hannah |
| FAMILY NAME | Andrews |
| SIGNATURE | ANDREWS H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lincoln |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9198-2294 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Glocalizing Queer Caricature
RuPaul’s Drag Race is viewed by many as responsible for popularizing the art of drag around the world. Remakes have appeared in diverse national settings, including Australia, Denmark, the Philippines, and the UK. Formats have been seen as evidence of growing globalization in the television industry. The concept of “glocalization,” a portmanteau term developed in the 1980s to signify the modification of products and services to suit local audienc…
Cancel culture
The early 2020s saw a string of cancellations of British political comedy programmes: Mock the Week , a topical panel show; The Mash Report , a news parody; Frankie Boyle’s New World Order , a comic debate; and Spitting Image , a short-lived reboot of the much-loved 1980s / 1990s puppet caricature sketch series. This appeared to be the culmination of a long-standing prediction of the ‘death of satire’ given its apparent superfluity in an extreme,…
Transnational Television Caricature
This article examines the transnational journeys of the popular puppet caricature sketch programme Spitting Image (1984-1996) at a moment of change in the global television industry. Satirical programming, which tends to be rooted in a specific time and place, is not an obvious candidate for the global television trade. Nevertheless, Spitting Image travelled, both in the sense of direct export of the series and as a television format, franchised …
Articulating arts-led AI
As both artificial intelligence (AI) and creativity are being foregrounded in UK policy agendas, this paper identifies a striking underrepresentation of artists and artistic practice in cultural policy discussing creative innovation. This is despite increasing academic literature, arts-led research, and case studies evidencing a close and dialogic relationship between art and AI. To illustrate this, we first call attention to the impact artistic …
BBC television news in the world
Introduction to two provocation pieces in issue 17(4) of Critical Studies in Television
Biographical Television Drama
Drag celebrity impersonation as queer caricature in The Snatch Game
The Snatch Game episodes of RuPaul’s Drag Race are hugely popular and highly anticipated. A test of their make-up and acting skills, the game requires competitors to impersonate celebrities and answer outrageous questions in-character. The hyperbolic nature of these impersonations, consistent with the culture and affective resonance of drag and camp, invites us to read them as performed caricatures. Caricature, like camp, can be critical and tran…
Distorted recognition
[Extract] A straitjacketed figure is being wheeled on an upright trolley through a dank corridor lit by flickering fluorescent tubes. A low-angled medium closeup reveals the bottom half of a royal blue skirt, and sensible, black, high-heeled pumps. After the trolley has come to a rest, the porter removes from the figure a full-face mask, reminiscent of the one worn by Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991). But the fac…
Milly Williamson , Celebrity
Book Review
Women we loved
Broadcast to critical acclaim and relatively large audiences for its niche channel, the Women We Loved season consisted of biographical dramatisations of three prominent female figures of 20th-century British culture. These dramas shared in common narratives that centre on the two aspects of 'the public' and 'the private': the tension between public career and personal life and the discrepancy between celebrity persona and private individual. Com…
From unwilling celebrity to authored icon
Asif Kapadia’s cinematic biography, Amy (2015) is a critically and commercially successful documentary feature that portrays the life and untimely death of celebrated singer Amy Winehouse. The film emphasises Winehouse’s ambivalent relationship with fame, while tracing the damaging effects that unwanted celebrity had on her physical and mental health. In this forum article, I assess the merits and problems with the film as a biography/obituary. I…
On the Grey Box
This article presents a case study of the broadcast of experimental moving image material on terrestrial television. The Eleventh Hour (Channel 4, 1982–90) broadcast independent and experimental film and video each week in a late-night specialist screening slot. By examining the history of this slot – its inception, its personnel, its shape and character and its scheduling strategies – I uncover a particular historical moment and set of circumsta…
A view from the demographic
This report responds to the BFI/Channel 4 – The First 25 Years Conference, of 17–18 November 2007
Distorted recognition
[Extract] A straitjacketed figure is being wheeled on an upright trolley through a dank corridor lit by flickering fluorescent tubes. A low-angled medium closeup reveals the bottom half of a royal blue skirt, and sensible, black, high-heeled pumps. After the trolley has come to a rest, the porter removes from the figure a full-face mask, reminiscent of the one worn by Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991). But the fac…
BBC television news in the world
Introduction to two provocation pieces in issue 17(4) of Critical Studies in Television
Drag celebrity impersonation as queer caricature in The Snatch Game
The Snatch Game episodes of RuPaul’s Drag Race are hugely popular and highly anticipated. A test of their make-up and acting skills, the game requires competitors to impersonate celebrities and answer outrageous questions in-character. The hyperbolic nature of these impersonations, consistent with the culture and affective resonance of drag and camp, invites us to read them as performed caricatures. Caricature, like camp, can be critical and tran…
From unwilling celebrity to authored icon
Asif Kapadia’s cinematic biography, Amy (2015) is a critically and commercially successful documentary feature that portrays the life and untimely death of celebrated singer Amy Winehouse. The film emphasises Winehouse’s ambivalent relationship with fame, while tracing the damaging effects that unwanted celebrity had on her physical and mental health. In this forum article, I assess the merits and problems with the film as a biography/obituary. I…
A view from the demographic
This report responds to the BFI/Channel 4 – The First 25 Years Conference, of 17–18 November 2007
On the Grey Box
This article presents a case study of the broadcast of experimental moving image material on terrestrial television. The Eleventh Hour (Channel 4, 1982–90) broadcast independent and experimental film and video each week in a late-night specialist screening slot. By examining the history of this slot – its inception, its personnel, its shape and character and its scheduling strategies – I uncover a particular historical moment and set of circumsta…
Milly Williamson , Celebrity
Book Review
Women we loved
Broadcast to critical acclaim and relatively large audiences for its niche channel, the Women We Loved season consisted of biographical dramatisations of three prominent female figures of 20th-century British culture. These dramas shared in common narratives that centre on the two aspects of 'the public' and 'the private': the tension between public career and personal life and the discrepancy between celebrity persona and private individual. Com…
From unwilling celebrity to authored icon
Asif Kapadia’s cinematic biography, Amy (2015) is a critically and commercially successful documentary feature that portrays the life and untimely death of celebrated singer Amy Winehouse. The film emphasises Winehouse’s ambivalent relationship with fame, while tracing the damaging effects that unwanted celebrity had on her physical and mental health. In this forum article, I assess the merits and problems with the film as a biography/obituary. I…
Distorted recognition
[Extract] A straitjacketed figure is being wheeled on an upright trolley through a dank corridor lit by flickering fluorescent tubes. A low-angled medium closeup reveals the bottom half of a royal blue skirt, and sensible, black, high-heeled pumps. After the trolley has come to a rest, the porter removes from the figure a full-face mask, reminiscent of the one worn by Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991). But the fac…
Drag celebrity impersonation as queer caricature in The Snatch Game
The Snatch Game episodes of RuPaul’s Drag Race are hugely popular and highly anticipated. A test of their make-up and acting skills, the game requires competitors to impersonate celebrities and answer outrageous questions in-character. The hyperbolic nature of these impersonations, consistent with the culture and affective resonance of drag and camp, invites us to read them as performed caricatures. Caricature, like camp, can be critical and tran…
Biographical Television Drama
BBC television news in the world
Introduction to two provocation pieces in issue 17(4) of Critical Studies in Television
Articulating arts-led AI
As both artificial intelligence (AI) and creativity are being foregrounded in UK policy agendas, this paper identifies a striking underrepresentation of artists and artistic practice in cultural policy discussing creative innovation. This is despite increasing academic literature, arts-led research, and case studies evidencing a close and dialogic relationship between art and AI. To illustrate this, we first call attention to the impact artistic …
Cancel culture
The early 2020s saw a string of cancellations of British political comedy programmes: Mock the Week , a topical panel show; The Mash Report , a news parody; Frankie Boyle’s New World Order , a comic debate; and Spitting Image , a short-lived reboot of the much-loved 1980s / 1990s puppet caricature sketch series. This appeared to be the culmination of a long-standing prediction of the ‘death of satire’ given its apparent superfluity in an extreme,…
Transnational Television Caricature
This article examines the transnational journeys of the popular puppet caricature sketch programme Spitting Image (1984-1996) at a moment of change in the global television industry. Satirical programming, which tends to be rooted in a specific time and place, is not an obvious candidate for the global television trade. Nevertheless, Spitting Image travelled, both in the sense of direct export of the series and as a television format, franchised …
Glocalizing Queer Caricature
RuPaul’s Drag Race is viewed by many as responsible for popularizing the art of drag around the world. Remakes have appeared in diverse national settings, including Australia, Denmark, the Philippines, and the UK. Formats have been seen as evidence of growing globalization in the television industry. The concept of “glocalization,” a portmanteau term developed in the 1980s to signify the modification of products and services to suit local audienc…
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