Simone Knox
Biographic Data
| ID | 3687860 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simone Knox |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simone |
| FAMILY NAME | Knox |
| SIGNATURE | KNOX S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5094-6203 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Oblique Agency: Mapping the Globalised Workflows of Television Dubbing and Their Impact on Practitioners
This article offers a comprehensive analysis of how increasingly globalised infrastructures, marked by industry expansion, consolidation, and the impact of streamers, affect the workflows and practices within local dubbing industries. Informed by extensive, original interviews with managerial and creative dubbing practitioners, and industry fieldwork observations since 2017, the article is located within a post-Bourdieuian framework, exploring wh…
Bringing the Battle to Britain: Band of Brothers and Television Runaway Production in the UK
This article explores the development and pre-production history of the 2001 HBO mini-series Band of Brothers. It does so via a combination of original archive research (conducted at the BFI Reuben Library) and interviews with several industry figures with relevant professional experience, including John Barclay, the current Head of Recorded Media for the UK trade union Equity, and Roger Harrop, the former director of regional film commission Her…
Transnational European Cultures of Production
Transnational European Cultures of Production
The Unwitting Pioneer of Transatlantic Format Adaptation: Beryl Vertue
This article explores the transatlantic work of Beryl Vertue (b. 1931), whose distinguished career includes selling the format for Till Death Us Do Part (BBC1, 1965-1975) and Steptoe and Son (BBC1, 1962-1974) to American television, as well as producing the Upstairs, Downstairs format adaptation Beacon Hill (CBS, 1975) in the USA. I map how her crucial involvement in the genesis of All in the Family (CBS, 1971-1979) and Sanford and Son (NBC, 1972…
Crossing Broadcasters: The Transatlantic Exchange Between Sylvester ‘Pat’ Weaver and Sir Ian Jacob, 1955–1956
This article is interested in the long-standing exchange visits by broadcasters across the Atlantic, as these give insight into the developing relationships between British and US broadcasting. Informed by original archive research at the Library of Congress, Washington DC and the BBC Written Archives’ Centre, Caversham, the article focuses on the charged rhetorical exchange of then-President of NBC Television, Sylvester ‘Pat’ Weaver (1908–2002) …
Phil Davis: The process of acting
Phil Davis has had a distinguished career, receiving widespread acclaim for his 'invisible' acting. This article illuminates Davis' approach to acting via a transcribed interview conducted at the 'Acting on Television' symposium at the University of Reading in 2016. This material is framed by a contextualising introduction that proposes that John Flaus' concept of lamprotes is useful for understanding Davis' acting. The interview is structured by…
European cultures of production
European cultures of production
Acting on television: Analytical methods and approaches
Reflection iii: Transnationalisation, Television Formats and the Universal
This reflection argues that, despite various good reasons for approaching the notion of the 'universal' with caution, cultural theorists should give up their resistance to the universal. The prominence of formats in today's television suggests that the time is ripe to do. Intentionally or not, accounts of difference implicitly also often reveal sameness; the more we probe heterogeneity, the more likely we are to encounter something that remains c…
Masterpiece Theatre and British Drama Imports on US Television: Discourses of Tension
Having previously written about
Transforming Television Drama through Dubbing and Subtitling: Sex and the Cities
Reading the Ungraspable Double-Codedness of: The Simpsons
Reading the interplay between text, audience, and institutional context, this article critically examines the distinctiveness of The Simpsons. It explores how the animated series uses textual strategies that are interesting to and challenging for both (postmodern) critical theory and processes of interpretation, including existing critical writing on the program
Transforming Television Drama through Dubbing and Subtitling: Sex and the Cities
Transnational European Cultures of Production
Transnational European Cultures of Production
European cultures of production
European cultures of production
Reflection iii: Transnationalisation, Television Formats and the Universal
This reflection argues that, despite various good reasons for approaching the notion of the 'universal' with caution, cultural theorists should give up their resistance to the universal. The prominence of formats in today's television suggests that the time is ripe to do. Intentionally or not, accounts of difference implicitly also often reveal sameness; the more we probe heterogeneity, the more likely we are to encounter something that remains c…
Reading the Ungraspable Double-Codedness of: The Simpsons
Reading the interplay between text, audience, and institutional context, this article critically examines the distinctiveness of The Simpsons. It explores how the animated series uses textual strategies that are interesting to and challenging for both (postmodern) critical theory and processes of interpretation, including existing critical writing on the program
Transforming Television Drama through Dubbing and Subtitling: Sex and the Cities
Masterpiece Theatre and British Drama Imports on US Television: Discourses of Tension
Having previously written about
Reflection iii: Transnationalisation, Television Formats and the Universal
This reflection argues that, despite various good reasons for approaching the notion of the 'universal' with caution, cultural theorists should give up their resistance to the universal. The prominence of formats in today's television suggests that the time is ripe to do. Intentionally or not, accounts of difference implicitly also often reveal sameness; the more we probe heterogeneity, the more likely we are to encounter something that remains c…
Crossing Broadcasters: The Transatlantic Exchange Between Sylvester ‘Pat’ Weaver and Sir Ian Jacob, 1955–1956
This article is interested in the long-standing exchange visits by broadcasters across the Atlantic, as these give insight into the developing relationships between British and US broadcasting. Informed by original archive research at the Library of Congress, Washington DC and the BBC Written Archives’ Centre, Caversham, the article focuses on the charged rhetorical exchange of then-President of NBC Television, Sylvester ‘Pat’ Weaver (1908–2002) …
Phil Davis: The process of acting
Phil Davis has had a distinguished career, receiving widespread acclaim for his 'invisible' acting. This article illuminates Davis' approach to acting via a transcribed interview conducted at the 'Acting on Television' symposium at the University of Reading in 2016. This material is framed by a contextualising introduction that proposes that John Flaus' concept of lamprotes is useful for understanding Davis' acting. The interview is structured by…
European cultures of production
European cultures of production
Acting on television: Analytical methods and approaches
The Unwitting Pioneer of Transatlantic Format Adaptation: Beryl Vertue
This article explores the transatlantic work of Beryl Vertue (b. 1931), whose distinguished career includes selling the format for Till Death Us Do Part (BBC1, 1965-1975) and Steptoe and Son (BBC1, 1962-1974) to American television, as well as producing the Upstairs, Downstairs format adaptation Beacon Hill (CBS, 1975) in the USA. I map how her crucial involvement in the genesis of All in the Family (CBS, 1971-1979) and Sanford and Son (NBC, 1972…
Bringing the Battle to Britain: Band of Brothers and Television Runaway Production in the UK
This article explores the development and pre-production history of the 2001 HBO mini-series Band of Brothers. It does so via a combination of original archive research (conducted at the BFI Reuben Library) and interviews with several industry figures with relevant professional experience, including John Barclay, the current Head of Recorded Media for the UK trade union Equity, and Roger Harrop, the former director of regional film commission Her…
Transnational European Cultures of Production
Transnational European Cultures of Production
Oblique Agency: Mapping the Globalised Workflows of Television Dubbing and Their Impact on Practitioners
This article offers a comprehensive analysis of how increasingly globalised infrastructures, marked by industry expansion, consolidation, and the impact of streamers, affect the workflows and practices within local dubbing industries. Informed by extensive, original interviews with managerial and creative dubbing practitioners, and industry fieldwork observations since 2017, the article is located within a post-Bourdieuian framework, exploring wh…
Sociology (9 works) · Art (7 works) · Media studies (7 works) · Literature (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (4 works) · History (4 works)