Janet Mccabe
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674236 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janet Mccabe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janet |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccabe |
| SIGNATURE | MCCABE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0309-0745 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Advice from Canadian Mothers Who Express Human Milk
Introduction
This TV essay dossier is devoted to Stuart Marshall (1949-1993). It selectively reprints an archive of his ideas, photographs and writing as illustrative of Marshall's thinking through television as an extended critique of the televisual - sound and image -, as well as how this way of thinking through practice translates into an TV essayistic mode used to comment directly on the nature of image-making and the medium itself. Interwoven with this m…
HBO and the Aristocracy of Contemporary TV Culture
The premiere US, pay-TV cable company HBO has done more than most to define what ‘original programming’ might mean and look like in the contemporary TV age of international television flow, global media trends and filiations. This article adopts a cultural sociological approach to make sense of the structure of the cultural field in which the company operates, framed between ‘culture’ and the ‘market’, between exclusive, qualitatively distinct te…
Doing Women's Film History
Appreciating Wallander at the BBC
This article explores how the different versions of Wallander, all in some ways are remakes of the original detective books written by best-selling Swedish author Henning Mankell, are collected together by the BBC into a corpus of television. The central purpose is to understand how the Nordic-based procedurals featuring the protagonist Kurt Wallander are positioned as a privileged form of culture at the BBC. Looking, in particular, at how the va…
Sea of love
This article argues that within romantic comedy, the setting of the beach has come to function as a highly potent and privileged setting, evolving into a generic ‘magic space’ (Deleyto 2009) that sanctions and protects those desiring love, while allowing for certain forms of speech involving intimacy and the (sexual) self that cannot be uttered elsewhere. Our analysis finds that, time and again, the sea functions as an alternative, liberating spa…
In Debate
As the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist atrocities was marked last September, In Debate discusses how that fateful day is being remembered (or not) on television a decade later. Documentaries re-remember events, news programmes debate the tragedy and television series/serials dialogue with what happened on 11 September 2001, and the four short essays discuss how television remains engaged in important mourning work
Exporting French Crime
Dossier introduction - Grey matters
Imitations of lives
This essay examines the role of the voice and vocal performance in the BAFTA award-winning BBC2 semi-improvised sitcom series, The Trip (2010a The trip, 2010a. TV, BBC2. [Google Scholar]). Starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, the two men embark on a culinary road trip around Lancashire, Yorkshire and the Lake District in the interests of sightseeing and food reviewing. Behind the premise of the series being about, as Coogan explains, ‘restaurant…
In Debate
Perhaps the most provocative thing I can say about television studies in 2011 from the vantage point of US academia is that it is an entity that had better demarcate its identity or risk lapsing into oblivion. Among those who I’d classify as my intellectual cohort, there is now an entity distinguishable as television studies, however, its distinction is consistent with that Justice Potter Stewart offered of obscenity: ‘I know it when I see it’. I…
States of Confusion
Rarely has someone emerged so unexpectedly and sensationally on to the American political scene as Sarah Palin. In August 2008, the then forty-four-year-old, mother of five, Alaskan Governor joined
And bringing up the rear
Nearly upstaging Catherine Middleton on her wedding day was maid-of-honour and younger sister, Philippa. Whereas Kate glided up the aisle and into fairy-tale mythology (so compelling, so alluring i
Quality TV
In his seminal book "Television's Second Golden Age", Robert Thompson described quality TV as 'best defined by what it is not': 'it is not "regular" TV'. Audacious maybe, but his statement renewed debate on the meaning of this highly contentious term. Dealing primarily with the post-1996 era shaped by digital technologies and defined by consumer choice and brand marketing, this book brings together leading scholars, established journalists and ex…
Feminist Television Criticism
Peer reviewed
Cicely under the Skin
Generic rules have changed and the dissident political voices of feminism and civil rights challenge white male authority to speak about the West. This contribution considers how women invert traditional western mythology, and give voice to an alternative and/or hidden history of the American frontier, to create new myths, new memories. Appearing at a moment when revisionist histographies speak of the Old West as about divergent historical realit…
And bringing up the rear
Nearly upstaging Catherine Middleton on her wedding day was maid-of-honour and younger sister, Philippa. Whereas Kate glided up the aisle and into fairy-tale mythology (so compelling, so alluring i
Feminist Television Criticism
Peer reviewed
Appreciating Wallander at the BBC
This article explores how the different versions of Wallander, all in some ways are remakes of the original detective books written by best-selling Swedish author Henning Mankell, are collected together by the BBC into a corpus of television. The central purpose is to understand how the Nordic-based procedurals featuring the protagonist Kurt Wallander are positioned as a privileged form of culture at the BBC. Looking, in particular, at how the va…
Dossier introduction - Grey matters
Imitations of lives
This essay examines the role of the voice and vocal performance in the BAFTA award-winning BBC2 semi-improvised sitcom series, The Trip (2010a The trip, 2010a. TV, BBC2. [Google Scholar]). Starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, the two men embark on a culinary road trip around Lancashire, Yorkshire and the Lake District in the interests of sightseeing and food reviewing. Behind the premise of the series being about, as Coogan explains, ‘restaurant…
States of Confusion
Rarely has someone emerged so unexpectedly and sensationally on to the American political scene as Sarah Palin. In August 2008, the then forty-four-year-old, mother of five, Alaskan Governor joined
Feminist Television Criticism
Peer reviewed
Cicely under the Skin
Generic rules have changed and the dissident political voices of feminism and civil rights challenge white male authority to speak about the West. This contribution considers how women invert traditional western mythology, and give voice to an alternative and/or hidden history of the American frontier, to create new myths, new memories. Appearing at a moment when revisionist histographies speak of the Old West as about divergent historical realit…
Quality TV
In his seminal book "Television's Second Golden Age", Robert Thompson described quality TV as 'best defined by what it is not': 'it is not "regular" TV'. Audacious maybe, but his statement renewed debate on the meaning of this highly contentious term. Dealing primarily with the post-1996 era shaped by digital technologies and defined by consumer choice and brand marketing, this book brings together leading scholars, established journalists and ex…
In Debate
Perhaps the most provocative thing I can say about television studies in 2011 from the vantage point of US academia is that it is an entity that had better demarcate its identity or risk lapsing into oblivion. Among those who I’d classify as my intellectual cohort, there is now an entity distinguishable as television studies, however, its distinction is consistent with that Justice Potter Stewart offered of obscenity: ‘I know it when I see it’. I…
States of Confusion
Rarely has someone emerged so unexpectedly and sensationally on to the American political scene as Sarah Palin. In August 2008, the then forty-four-year-old, mother of five, Alaskan Governor joined
And bringing up the rear
Nearly upstaging Catherine Middleton on her wedding day was maid-of-honour and younger sister, Philippa. Whereas Kate glided up the aisle and into fairy-tale mythology (so compelling, so alluring i
In Debate
As the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist atrocities was marked last September, In Debate discusses how that fateful day is being remembered (or not) on television a decade later. Documentaries re-remember events, news programmes debate the tragedy and television series/serials dialogue with what happened on 11 September 2001, and the four short essays discuss how television remains engaged in important mourning work
Exporting French Crime
Dossier introduction - Grey matters
Imitations of lives
This essay examines the role of the voice and vocal performance in the BAFTA award-winning BBC2 semi-improvised sitcom series, The Trip (2010a The trip, 2010a. TV, BBC2. [Google Scholar]). Starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, the two men embark on a culinary road trip around Lancashire, Yorkshire and the Lake District in the interests of sightseeing and food reviewing. Behind the premise of the series being about, as Coogan explains, ‘restaurant…
Sea of love
This article argues that within romantic comedy, the setting of the beach has come to function as a highly potent and privileged setting, evolving into a generic ‘magic space’ (Deleyto 2009) that sanctions and protects those desiring love, while allowing for certain forms of speech involving intimacy and the (sexual) self that cannot be uttered elsewhere. Our analysis finds that, time and again, the sea functions as an alternative, liberating spa…
Appreciating Wallander at the BBC
This article explores how the different versions of Wallander, all in some ways are remakes of the original detective books written by best-selling Swedish author Henning Mankell, are collected together by the BBC into a corpus of television. The central purpose is to understand how the Nordic-based procedurals featuring the protagonist Kurt Wallander are positioned as a privileged form of culture at the BBC. Looking, in particular, at how the va…
Doing Women's Film History
HBO and the Aristocracy of Contemporary TV Culture
The premiere US, pay-TV cable company HBO has done more than most to define what ‘original programming’ might mean and look like in the contemporary TV age of international television flow, global media trends and filiations. This article adopts a cultural sociological approach to make sense of the structure of the cultural field in which the company operates, framed between ‘culture’ and the ‘market’, between exclusive, qualitatively distinct te…
Introduction
This TV essay dossier is devoted to Stuart Marshall (1949-1993). It selectively reprints an archive of his ideas, photographs and writing as illustrative of Marshall's thinking through television as an extended critique of the televisual - sound and image -, as well as how this way of thinking through practice translates into an TV essayistic mode used to comment directly on the nature of image-making and the medium itself. Interwoven with this m…
Advice from Canadian Mothers Who Express Human Milk
Sociology (11 works) · Art (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Media studies (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · History (7 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (5 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (5 works) · Media Studies and Communication (5 works)