Ruth Mcelroy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3687909 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth Mcelroy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcelroy |
| SIGNATURE | MCELROY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Wales |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2190-1989 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Rooting' the BBC: An interview with Rhodri Talfan Davies, Director of BBC Nations
In early 2021, Rhodri Talfan Davies was appointed Director of Nations, a role which would see him lead all the BBC's work across Scotland, Wales, England and Northern Ireland, alongside his responsibilities as Director of BBC Wales. Shortly after this appointment, and the announcement of further commitments by the BBC to nations and regions, the authors interviewed Talfan Davies to understand the decisions that flow from translating the often abs…
Producing British Television Drama: Local Production in a Global Era
This book presents a compelling case for a paradigmatic shift in the analysis of television drama production that recentres questions of power, control and sustainability. It offers invaluable insights into the UK as a major supplier of and market for television drama.
Small is beautiful? The salience of scale and power to three European cultures of TV production
As television production becomes increasingly global, television studies must advance its understanding of how the global and the local intersect and impact upon the cultures of production. Drawing on original comparative research of three small European nations – Denmark, Ireland and Wales – this article offers empirical insights into the distinct challenges and opportunities for non-Anglophone producers and public service broadcasters (PSBs). T…
Mediating home in an age of austerity: The values of British property television
Lifestyle television provides a dramatic space in popular culture where the values of neoliberalism are articulated, enacted and sometimes contested. The ideological reliance of this consumer-driven form of television on financial markets and economic growth has posed a significant challenge for programme-makers in the post-crisis recessionary era. This article explores the myriad ways in which British property television has responded to the glo…
Broadcasting after devolution: Policy and critique in the Welsh media landscape 2008–2015
This essay examines the provision of media (especially broadcasting) in Wales and considers recommendations made in key reviews and reports which have sought to bring about change in how the media serve people in a devolved Wales. It provides a critical insight into how these debates have developed since 2008 and reveals how some of the monumental economic, policy, production and technological changes that have affected broadcast and digital medi…
Television drama production in small nations: Mobilities in a changing ecology
For small nations, the television industry functions on a number of interlinking levels constructing a sense of identity, contributing towards a democratic public sphere, and providing an important cultural and economic resource. Television drama is particularly important to these functions due to its ability to tell stories about and for a nation. However, the ecology of television drama production is changing in terms of technological innovatio…
Memory, Television and the Making of the BBC’s The Story of Wales
The production of television history programming is a rich site for examining the dynamic relationship between history and memory. This article approaches these dynamics through original, empirical research of a specific case study, BBC Wales’ The Story of Wales (Green Bay for BBC Wales 2012). It analyses the commissioning, production and presentation of a landmark national history programme within the specific context of a small nation (Wales) a…
‘Putting the landmark back into television’: Producing place and cultural value in Cardiff
The Appeal of the Past in Historical Reality Television: Coal House at War and its audiences
Television history channels and programming have seen considerable growth in recent years, yet empirical research on television history audiences remains limited. This essay argues that media history scholars need better to understand what happens when audiences consume television history, examining the critical debates concerning the genre's specific modalities of rendering the past on screen before exploring what opportunities and problems it a…
Promoting Public Service? Branding, Place and BBC Cymru Wales' Idents, Promos and Trailers
Nothing better testifies to the increasingly commercialised, competitive, multi-channel realities of the contemporary TV landscape than the rise of the brand ident. When there were only a tiny handful of channels from which to choose, broadcasters seldom felt the need to pay serious attention to distinguishing their identity from that of their competitors. Perhaps even the very notion of a broadcaster possessing an identity might have seemed rath…
Television Drama and National Identity: The Case of 'Small Nations
Remembering Ourselves, Viewing the Others: Historical Reality Television and Celebrity in the Small Nation
This article explores the specificity of media participation in a small nation, Wales, through empirical research on participants in historical reality television. It takes as its focus the case study of BBC Wales’s multiplatform project, Coal House (Indus, 2007) and Coal House at War (Indus, 2008), which exemplifies how public service broadcasters in the digital era seek to cultivate diverse forms of participation from national and regional audi…
Indigenous Minority-Language Media: S4c , Cultural Identity, and the Welsh-Language Televisual Community
Property TV: The (re)making of home on national screens
This article explores how home is made and re-made on national television screens by reference to new domestic lifestyle genres. Through a comparative analysis of the property TV of English-language broadcasters in the UK and US, as well as the minority-language Welsh broadcaster S4C, this article examines the inter-relationship of domestic scenes of private homes with the formation of national constructions of homelands and national belonging. T…
Coal House: Fictions of the Past on the Small Screen
This dossier exemplifies the rich and complex process involved in producing television history. Drawing together a commissioner, executive and series producers, multi-platform director and historical consultant, the dossier offers insights into the making of BBC Wales’ 2007 award-winning, Coal House, an historical docu-drama that saw three Welsh families ‘transported’ back to 1927 to experience day-to-day life in the South Wales coalfield. Now in…
The Local, the Global and the Bi-Cultural: Welsh-Language Television Drama
Whose body, whose nation: Surrogate motherhood and its representation
This article explores surrogate motherhood as an instance of how women's rights of belonging to nations are repeatedly sexed and racialized. Feminist theorists have rightly critiqued the reification of women's reproductive capacities within nationalist discourse and have begun to explore how maternity operates as the grounds for women's inclusion and exclusion from the nation. I argue that surrogate motherhood vividly demonstrates how nation stat…
Property TV: The (re)making of home on national screens
This article explores how home is made and re-made on national television screens by reference to new domestic lifestyle genres. Through a comparative analysis of the property TV of English-language broadcasters in the UK and US, as well as the minority-language Welsh broadcaster S4C, this article examines the inter-relationship of domestic scenes of private homes with the formation of national constructions of homelands and national belonging. T…
Mediating home in an age of austerity: The values of British property television
Lifestyle television provides a dramatic space in popular culture where the values of neoliberalism are articulated, enacted and sometimes contested. The ideological reliance of this consumer-driven form of television on financial markets and economic growth has posed a significant challenge for programme-makers in the post-crisis recessionary era. This article explores the myriad ways in which British property television has responded to the glo…
Remembering Ourselves, Viewing the Others: Historical Reality Television and Celebrity in the Small Nation
This article explores the specificity of media participation in a small nation, Wales, through empirical research on participants in historical reality television. It takes as its focus the case study of BBC Wales’s multiplatform project, Coal House (Indus, 2007) and Coal House at War (Indus, 2008), which exemplifies how public service broadcasters in the digital era seek to cultivate diverse forms of participation from national and regional audi…
Broadcasting after devolution: Policy and critique in the Welsh media landscape 2008–2015
This essay examines the provision of media (especially broadcasting) in Wales and considers recommendations made in key reviews and reports which have sought to bring about change in how the media serve people in a devolved Wales. It provides a critical insight into how these debates have developed since 2008 and reveals how some of the monumental economic, policy, production and technological changes that have affected broadcast and digital medi…
The Appeal of the Past in Historical Reality Television: Coal House at War and its audiences
Television history channels and programming have seen considerable growth in recent years, yet empirical research on television history audiences remains limited. This essay argues that media history scholars need better to understand what happens when audiences consume television history, examining the critical debates concerning the genre's specific modalities of rendering the past on screen before exploring what opportunities and problems it a…
Small is beautiful? The salience of scale and power to three European cultures of TV production
As television production becomes increasingly global, television studies must advance its understanding of how the global and the local intersect and impact upon the cultures of production. Drawing on original comparative research of three small European nations – Denmark, Ireland and Wales – this article offers empirical insights into the distinct challenges and opportunities for non-Anglophone producers and public service broadcasters (PSBs). T…
Promoting Public Service? Branding, Place and BBC Cymru Wales' Idents, Promos and Trailers
Nothing better testifies to the increasingly commercialised, competitive, multi-channel realities of the contemporary TV landscape than the rise of the brand ident. When there were only a tiny handful of channels from which to choose, broadcasters seldom felt the need to pay serious attention to distinguishing their identity from that of their competitors. Perhaps even the very notion of a broadcaster possessing an identity might have seemed rath…
Television Drama and National Identity: The Case of 'Small Nations
Whose body, whose nation: Surrogate motherhood and its representation
This article explores surrogate motherhood as an instance of how women's rights of belonging to nations are repeatedly sexed and racialized. Feminist theorists have rightly critiqued the reification of women's reproductive capacities within nationalist discourse and have begun to explore how maternity operates as the grounds for women's inclusion and exclusion from the nation. I argue that surrogate motherhood vividly demonstrates how nation stat…
Whose body, whose nation: Surrogate motherhood and its representation
This article explores surrogate motherhood as an instance of how women's rights of belonging to nations are repeatedly sexed and racialized. Feminist theorists have rightly critiqued the reification of women's reproductive capacities within nationalist discourse and have begun to explore how maternity operates as the grounds for women's inclusion and exclusion from the nation. I argue that surrogate motherhood vividly demonstrates how nation stat…
The Local, the Global and the Bi-Cultural: Welsh-Language Television Drama
Indigenous Minority-Language Media: S4c , Cultural Identity, and the Welsh-Language Televisual Community
Property TV: The (re)making of home on national screens
This article explores how home is made and re-made on national television screens by reference to new domestic lifestyle genres. Through a comparative analysis of the property TV of English-language broadcasters in the UK and US, as well as the minority-language Welsh broadcaster S4C, this article examines the inter-relationship of domestic scenes of private homes with the formation of national constructions of homelands and national belonging. T…
Coal House: Fictions of the Past on the Small Screen
This dossier exemplifies the rich and complex process involved in producing television history. Drawing together a commissioner, executive and series producers, multi-platform director and historical consultant, the dossier offers insights into the making of BBC Wales’ 2007 award-winning, Coal House, an historical docu-drama that saw three Welsh families ‘transported’ back to 1927 to experience day-to-day life in the South Wales coalfield. Now in…
Remembering Ourselves, Viewing the Others: Historical Reality Television and Celebrity in the Small Nation
This article explores the specificity of media participation in a small nation, Wales, through empirical research on participants in historical reality television. It takes as its focus the case study of BBC Wales’s multiplatform project, Coal House (Indus, 2007) and Coal House at War (Indus, 2008), which exemplifies how public service broadcasters in the digital era seek to cultivate diverse forms of participation from national and regional audi…
‘Putting the landmark back into television’: Producing place and cultural value in Cardiff
The Appeal of the Past in Historical Reality Television: Coal House at War and its audiences
Television history channels and programming have seen considerable growth in recent years, yet empirical research on television history audiences remains limited. This essay argues that media history scholars need better to understand what happens when audiences consume television history, examining the critical debates concerning the genre's specific modalities of rendering the past on screen before exploring what opportunities and problems it a…
Promoting Public Service? Branding, Place and BBC Cymru Wales' Idents, Promos and Trailers
Nothing better testifies to the increasingly commercialised, competitive, multi-channel realities of the contemporary TV landscape than the rise of the brand ident. When there were only a tiny handful of channels from which to choose, broadcasters seldom felt the need to pay serious attention to distinguishing their identity from that of their competitors. Perhaps even the very notion of a broadcaster possessing an identity might have seemed rath…
Television Drama and National Identity: The Case of 'Small Nations
Memory, Television and the Making of the BBC’s The Story of Wales
The production of television history programming is a rich site for examining the dynamic relationship between history and memory. This article approaches these dynamics through original, empirical research of a specific case study, BBC Wales’ The Story of Wales (Green Bay for BBC Wales 2012). It analyses the commissioning, production and presentation of a landmark national history programme within the specific context of a small nation (Wales) a…
Television drama production in small nations: Mobilities in a changing ecology
For small nations, the television industry functions on a number of interlinking levels constructing a sense of identity, contributing towards a democratic public sphere, and providing an important cultural and economic resource. Television drama is particularly important to these functions due to its ability to tell stories about and for a nation. However, the ecology of television drama production is changing in terms of technological innovatio…
Mediating home in an age of austerity: The values of British property television
Lifestyle television provides a dramatic space in popular culture where the values of neoliberalism are articulated, enacted and sometimes contested. The ideological reliance of this consumer-driven form of television on financial markets and economic growth has posed a significant challenge for programme-makers in the post-crisis recessionary era. This article explores the myriad ways in which British property television has responded to the glo…
Broadcasting after devolution: Policy and critique in the Welsh media landscape 2008–2015
This essay examines the provision of media (especially broadcasting) in Wales and considers recommendations made in key reviews and reports which have sought to bring about change in how the media serve people in a devolved Wales. It provides a critical insight into how these debates have developed since 2008 and reveals how some of the monumental economic, policy, production and technological changes that have affected broadcast and digital medi…
Small is beautiful? The salience of scale and power to three European cultures of TV production
As television production becomes increasingly global, television studies must advance its understanding of how the global and the local intersect and impact upon the cultures of production. Drawing on original comparative research of three small European nations – Denmark, Ireland and Wales – this article offers empirical insights into the distinct challenges and opportunities for non-Anglophone producers and public service broadcasters (PSBs). T…
Producing British Television Drama: Local Production in a Global Era
This book presents a compelling case for a paradigmatic shift in the analysis of television drama production that recentres questions of power, control and sustainability. It offers invaluable insights into the UK as a major supplier of and market for television drama.
Rooting' the BBC: An interview with Rhodri Talfan Davies, Director of BBC Nations
In early 2021, Rhodri Talfan Davies was appointed Director of Nations, a role which would see him lead all the BBC's work across Scotland, Wales, England and Northern Ireland, alongside his responsibilities as Director of BBC Wales. Shortly after this appointment, and the announcement of further commitments by the BBC to nations and regions, the authors interviewed Talfan Davies to understand the decisions that flow from translating the often abs…
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