Sue Turnbull
Biographic Data
| ID | 3687939 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sue Turnbull |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sue |
| FAMILY NAME | Turnbull |
| SIGNATURE | TURNBULL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1015-9301 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 110 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Dossier: Sites of struggle: Television’s cultural and economic value
In the age of the Anthropocene, television can play a key role in shifting ideologies. However, achieving this is difficult when television continues to operate as a ‘site struggle’ – pulled between complex negotiations of capital and culture. If in the 20th century, scholars were interested in teasing out the value(s) of television to argue for its potential contribution to socio-cultural transformation, in the 21st century, questions of televis…
Beyond Gatekeeping: Web Series as Entrepreneurial Emancipation in the Contemporary Streaming Era
This study explores fictional web series as a disruptive alternative to traditional television industry gatekeeping systems, offering actor/producers unprecedented pathways to creative agency and entrepreneurial career development. This research documents how practitioners, industry bodies, broadcasters, and audiences define “successful” web series, examining how “value” is generated beyond traditional economic metrics. Drawing on semi-structured…
Transnational TV Crime: From the Nordic to the Outback
This book offers an account of how the global popularity of the Nordic Noir wave of television crime drama such as The Killing/Forbrydelsen and The Bridge/Broen/Bron had a profound impact on the production of television crime drama in Australia. Through a series of case studies including Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, The Kettering Incident, Secret City and Mystery Road, the authors explore how the Australian television industry responded to the…
Transnational TV Crime: From the Nordic to the Outback
Traces the evolution of the TV cime drama since 2000 with a focus on the value these series have delivered to the creative industries and society in general Explores the impact of Nordic Noir on Australian crime drama Illustrates how the Australian television industry has responded to the global streaming environment Introduces the concept of ‘total value’ and applies it to a series of case studies Accounts for the industrial, creative, cultural …
Monstrous Wounds: Crime, Environmental Catastrophe and Domestic Abuse in Jane Harper’s The Dry
Within the long history of Australian crime fiction, Jane Harper’s The Dry marks a significant moment in the emergence of what has been characterised as “outback” or “rural” noir. With its focus on the small regional community of Kiewarra, Harper’s narrative addresses a number of issues that impact rural communities, including climate change, domestic abuse and gambling. Weaving together a story set in the past and a story set in the present, Har…
David Martin-Jones, Columbo: Paying Attention 24/7
Journal Article David Martin-Jones, Columbo: Paying Attention 24/7 Get access David Martin-Jones, Columbo: Paying Attention 24/7. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022, 239 pp. Sue Turnbull Sue Turnbull Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 64, Issue 1, Spring 2023, Pages 135–137, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/hjad009 Published: 21 March 2023
The Media and Communications in Australia
The Media & Communications in Australia
FiguresAbbreviationsContributorsPrefacePART 1 INTRODUCTION1. The media and communications in Australia today, Graeme Turner and Stuart CunninghamPART 2 APPROACHES2. Media and communications theoretical traditions, John Sinclair3. Political economy and news, Rod Tiffen4. Policy, Stuart Cunningham and Terry Flew5. Textual analysis, Alan McKee6. Representation, Kate Bowles7. Audiences, Sue TurnbullPART 3 INDUSTRIES8. The press, Julianne Schultz9. Te…
Media and Communications in Australia
Understanding and improving the experience of claiming social security for mental health problems in the west of Scotland: A participatory social welfare study
A growing body of literature links claimant interactions with the UK social security system and negative psychological consequences. Psychologists for social change developed a framework to outline proposed mechanisms of psychological impact from austerity. This codesigned study aimed to make an informed comment on areas of dis(agreement) between the Austerity Ailments framework and how people claiming for mental health problems describe their ow…
European Television Crime Drama and Beyond
TV Now
Investigating Miss Fisher: The Value of a Television Crime Drama
This article explores the concept of value in relation to the Australian television crime drama series Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries. Drawing on a range of approaches to the economic valuation of culture, it argues for a nuanced approach to capturing the total cultural and economic value of a television crime drama series. While this may include the quantifiable, direct monetary benefits to be derived at all stages of development, production, di…
Trafficking in TV crime: Remaking Broadchurch
As a genre that has evolved from a complex mix of literary, filmic, documentary and radio sources, many of which have been circulating globally for some time, television crime drama provides an illuminating lens through which to explore the issue of the television remake in an era when the transnational traffic in television renders the impulse to translate an original into a different cultural location more questionable than ever. Employing a ca…
Affect, Upset and the Self: Memories of Television in Australia
In a recent survey inviting people to outline some of their memories of television and its place in their lives, one of the questions asked was: 'Can you explain why these particular television memories have stayed with you?' While the responses to this question were complex and individual, some common themes emerged. These included questions of affect; experiences that were 'beyond the norm'; and moments of self-identification. While the younger…
A suitable job for a woman’: Women, work and the television crime drama
The first series of the Channel Nine crime drama series, Underbelly, is the starting point for a reflection on the relationship between women, work, crime and feminism. Following a brief description of the episode ‘Wise Monkeys’ written by Felicity \Packard which features three of the ‘real’ women involved in Melbourne's gangland murders, the essay considers the significant role women have played in the depiction of crime on television as creator…
The TV Crime Drama
Maps the development of the crime drama on international television As a genre, the television crime drama has long been a constant of the television landscape since it first migrated from film and radio onto the small screen in the 1950s. Since then, from Dixon of Dock Green to The Wire , from Minder to The Sopranos or Cracker to Dexter and The Killing , it has continued to attract large audiences even as the depiction of the crime, the perpetra…
From listening … to the dialogic realities of participatory democracy
The idea of listening offers a means of reframing contemporary media theory and the project of cultural studies in such a way that the other half of communication can enter the picture on an equal footing. Many of the implications, both politically and conceptually, of such a move were canvassed in a special issue of Continuumin 2009.This paper engages with the themes of the special issue and elaborates on the implications through a consideration…
Remembering television: Histories, Technologies, Memories
This path-breaking book extends our knowledge of the social and cultural impacts of television, asking new questions about the ways television's technologies and programming have been experienced, understood and remembered. Television has served as a companion to the historical events that have unfolded in our everyday lives both on and off the screen, and its presence is intricately bound up in our memories of the past and actions in the present…
Socially Inclusive Processes: New Opportunities with New Media
The tools of Web 2.0 and its culture of open collaboration offer a number of new opportunities to individuals, communities and governments. At first glance, many of these opportunities appear to lend themselves to fostering socially inclusive practices, and the report of the Government 2.0 Taskforce in 2009 certainly claimed this. However, while there has been much discussion of social inclusion in policy terms, there has been little consideratio…
Law and Order * Cracker * Prime Suspect
Writing about a television crime drama for a series of British Film Institute monographs, Charlotte Brunsdon, Mark Duguid and Deborah Jermyn each discuss why the particular show upon which they reflect should be considered a TV Classic. For Duguid and Jermyn the task is a tad easier since both Cracker (Granada/ITV, 1993-96, 2006) and Prime Suspect (Granada/ITV, 1991-96, 2003-06) still have an undeniable resonance in today's television environment…
Crime as entertainment: The case of the TV crime drama
A viewing of the grim but popular BBC police procedural, Wallander (BBC1, 2008–), prompts a reflection on Richard Dyer's original formulation of entertainment as utopia in 1977. It is noted that the concept of entertainment has received relatively little attention within the fields of media and cultural studies since that time and that the history of the television crime drama provides an interesting case study with which to re-examine popular te…
Introduction: Television and the National
Free-to-air television, programmed for local and national audiences, continues to be an important part of the media landscape despite the multiple modes of delivery and consumption which define the
Television Comedy and Light Entertainment
This issue of MIA provides an opportunity to consider the various ways in which light entertainment and comedy intersect with the national, social and broadcast contexts in which they are produced
The Long Tail of Mother and Son: The Transnational Career of an Australian Situation Comedy
This article challenges the proposition that Australian television comedy does not succeed in overseas markets through a discussion of the transnational career of the ABC sitcom, Mother and Son (1984-94). A brief account of the development of the Australian sitcom up to 1984 is provided, with attention to British and American influences on the Australian genre. Following a close discussion of the comedy operational within the show, an examination…
The Media and Communications in Australia
The TV Crime Drama
Maps the development of the crime drama on international television As a genre, the television crime drama has long been a constant of the television landscape since it first migrated from film and radio onto the small screen in the 1950s. Since then, from Dixon of Dock Green to The Wire , from Minder to The Sopranos or Cracker to Dexter and The Killing , it has continued to attract large audiences even as the depiction of the crime, the perpetra…
Mapping the vast suburban tundra: Australian comedy from Dame Edna to Kath and Kim
By the time of Australian Federation in 1901, almost 70 per cent of Sydney's population were living in the suburbs: a statistic that suggests that despite prevalent and enduring images of the bushman and the ocker, the 'real' Australia was, and still is, more likely to be located in what Barry Humphries has described as Australia's 'vast and unexplored suburban tundra'. 1 As a satirist, Humphries has been in the forefront of an expedition to map …
Crime as entertainment: The case of the TV crime drama
A viewing of the grim but popular BBC police procedural, Wallander (BBC1, 2008–), prompts a reflection on Richard Dyer's original formulation of entertainment as utopia in 1977. It is noted that the concept of entertainment has received relatively little attention within the fields of media and cultural studies since that time and that the history of the television crime drama provides an interesting case study with which to re-examine popular te…
A suitable job for a woman’: Women, work and the television crime drama
The first series of the Channel Nine crime drama series, Underbelly, is the starting point for a reflection on the relationship between women, work, crime and feminism. Following a brief description of the episode ‘Wise Monkeys’ written by Felicity \Packard which features three of the ‘real’ women involved in Melbourne's gangland murders, the essay considers the significant role women have played in the depiction of crime on television as creator…
Understanding and improving the experience of claiming social security for mental health problems in the west of Scotland: A participatory social welfare study
A growing body of literature links claimant interactions with the UK social security system and negative psychological consequences. Psychologists for social change developed a framework to outline proposed mechanisms of psychological impact from austerity. This codesigned study aimed to make an informed comment on areas of dis(agreement) between the Austerity Ailments framework and how people claiming for mental health problems describe their ow…
Trafficking in TV crime: Remaking Broadchurch
As a genre that has evolved from a complex mix of literary, filmic, documentary and radio sources, many of which have been circulating globally for some time, television crime drama provides an illuminating lens through which to explore the issue of the television remake in an era when the transnational traffic in television renders the impulse to translate an original into a different cultural location more questionable than ever. Employing a ca…
Affect, Upset and the Self: Memories of Television in Australia
In a recent survey inviting people to outline some of their memories of television and its place in their lives, one of the questions asked was: 'Can you explain why these particular television memories have stayed with you?' While the responses to this question were complex and individual, some common themes emerged. These included questions of affect; experiences that were 'beyond the norm'; and moments of self-identification. While the younger…
Socially Inclusive Processes: New Opportunities with New Media
The tools of Web 2.0 and its culture of open collaboration offer a number of new opportunities to individuals, communities and governments. At first glance, many of these opportunities appear to lend themselves to fostering socially inclusive practices, and the report of the Government 2.0 Taskforce in 2009 certainly claimed this. However, while there has been much discussion of social inclusion in policy terms, there has been little consideratio…
Teaching Buffy: The curriculum and the text in Media Studies
Attachment in anorexia nervosa: A transgenerational perspective
Both clinical and empirical studies suggest that insecure attachment is common in eating disordered populations. Clinical studies have addressed mother‐daughter interactions, but there has been little empirical research into the mother's own attachment patterns and whether there might be intergenerational transmission of these patterns. We aimed to examine the attachment status of patients with severe anorexia nervosa and their mothers, using the…
The Long Tail of Mother and Son: The Transnational Career of an Australian Situation Comedy
This article challenges the proposition that Australian television comedy does not succeed in overseas markets through a discussion of the transnational career of the ABC sitcom, Mother and Son (1984-94). A brief account of the development of the Australian sitcom up to 1984 is provided, with attention to British and American influences on the Australian genre. Following a close discussion of the comedy operational within the show, an examination…
Missing in Action: On the Invisibility of (Most) Australian Television
Teaching for the Revolution: The Long March of Media Studies
This paper constitutes a form of auto-ethnography, reflecting on my career as a teacher of media in the United Kingdom during the 1970s and in Australia in 2006. The biographical method was chosen in order to affirm the value of media education in relation to the personal experience of both the student and the teacher, and to question the authority and value of the various Media Studies curricula as they have evolved over the last 30 years within…
Media Education: Authority, Identity and Value - An Editorial Dialogue
In this 'dialogue' article, the three editors of the special issue debate three key themes arising from the articles that follow. We discuss the dilemmas posed by the institutionalisation or 'authorisation' of media education within the formal education system; persistent questions about the role of media education as an intervention in the processes of students' identity formation; and the vexed debate about judgments of cultural value and their…
Look at Moiye, Kimmie, Look at Moiye: Kath and Kim and the Australian Comedy of Taste
This paper traces the genealogy of the ABC comedy series, Kath and Kim, in terms of its production history, the origins of its characters and themes, and its relationship to new hybrid comedy forms such as the mock-documentary (Roscoe and Hight, 2001). Issues such as the gender, class and taste politics of the comedy are explored in an attempt to rationalise the author's own ambivalent reactions to the show. Particular attention is paid to a numb…
A cunning array of stunts: Women, situation comedy and risky performances on Australian television
A cunning array of stunts: Women, situation comedy and risky performances on Australian television
Australian screen comedy: An overview
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ANZCA Australian & New Zealand Communication Association News
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Attachment in anorexia nervosa: A transgenerational perspective
Both clinical and empirical studies suggest that insecure attachment is common in eating disordered populations. Clinical studies have addressed mother‐daughter interactions, but there has been little empirical research into the mother's own attachment patterns and whether there might be intergenerational transmission of these patterns. We aimed to examine the attachment status of patients with severe anorexia nervosa and their mothers, using the…
Old Dogs, New Tricks: Beyond Simpson Le Mesurier, Crime-Comedy and the Telemovie Series
Roger Simpson and Roger Le Mesurier are veterans of commercial television drama production (from Division 4 to Stingers). In the post-Skase/Bond era of deficit funding, their innovative telemovie series (Halifax f.p., Dogwoman) and crime-comedy series (Good Guys Bad Guys) have tested the boundaries of Australian television's staple drama format, the crime series. Taking actors (Rebecca Gibney, Marcus Graham, Magda Szubanski) as hooks for the netw…
Nice dress, take it off: Crime, romance and the pleasure of the text
The experience of interviewing successful American crime writer Janet Evanovitch before a large and enthusiastic audience prompts an exploration of how and why Evanovitch's crime novels make their appeal to readers. Because Evanovitch's novels cross into the terrain of romance, the formulaic nature of both crime and romance and their status as popular genres is discussed. Research conducted with the crime fiction readership network Sisters in Cri…
Teaching Buffy: The curriculum and the text in Media Studies
Look at Moiye, Kimmie, Look at Moiye: Kath and Kim and the Australian Comedy of Taste
This paper traces the genealogy of the ABC comedy series, Kath and Kim, in terms of its production history, the origins of its characters and themes, and its relationship to new hybrid comedy forms such as the mock-documentary (Roscoe and Hight, 2001). Issues such as the gender, class and taste politics of the comedy are explored in an attempt to rationalise the author's own ambivalent reactions to the show. Particular attention is paid to a numb…
Moments of inspiration: Performing Spike
This article explores the way in which the actor, James Marsters, performs the character of Spike. Beginning with the Greek term ekphrasis (the verbal representation of visual representation) this article is an endeavour to describe and recover in language the effect which a particular performance, moment or TV series may have on us. The specific moment of performance that the article addresses is that of Spike’s first appearance on Buffy the Vam…
Teaching for the Revolution: The Long March of Media Studies
This paper constitutes a form of auto-ethnography, reflecting on my career as a teacher of media in the United Kingdom during the 1970s and in Australia in 2006. The biographical method was chosen in order to affirm the value of media education in relation to the personal experience of both the student and the teacher, and to question the authority and value of the various Media Studies curricula as they have evolved over the last 30 years within…
Australian Television History: An Introduction
Media Education: Authority, Identity and Value - An Editorial Dialogue
In this 'dialogue' article, the three editors of the special issue debate three key themes arising from the articles that follow. We discuss the dilemmas posed by the institutionalisation or 'authorisation' of media education within the formal education system; persistent questions about the role of media education as an intervention in the processes of students' identity formation; and the vexed debate about judgments of cultural value and their…
Mapping the vast suburban tundra: Australian comedy from Dame Edna to Kath and Kim
By the time of Australian Federation in 1901, almost 70 per cent of Sydney's population were living in the suburbs: a statistic that suggests that despite prevalent and enduring images of the bushman and the ocker, the 'real' Australia was, and still is, more likely to be located in what Barry Humphries has described as Australia's 'vast and unexplored suburban tundra'. 1 As a satirist, Humphries has been in the forefront of an expedition to map …
Crime as entertainment: The case of the TV crime drama
A viewing of the grim but popular BBC police procedural, Wallander (BBC1, 2008–), prompts a reflection on Richard Dyer's original formulation of entertainment as utopia in 1977. It is noted that the concept of entertainment has received relatively little attention within the fields of media and cultural studies since that time and that the history of the television crime drama provides an interesting case study with which to re-examine popular te…
Introduction: Television and the National
Free-to-air television, programmed for local and national audiences, continues to be an important part of the media landscape despite the multiple modes of delivery and consumption which define the
Television Comedy and Light Entertainment
This issue of MIA provides an opportunity to consider the various ways in which light entertainment and comedy intersect with the national, social and broadcast contexts in which they are produced
The Long Tail of Mother and Son: The Transnational Career of an Australian Situation Comedy
This article challenges the proposition that Australian television comedy does not succeed in overseas markets through a discussion of the transnational career of the ABC sitcom, Mother and Son (1984-94). A brief account of the development of the Australian sitcom up to 1984 is provided, with attention to British and American influences on the Australian genre. Following a close discussion of the comedy operational within the show, an examination…
Wagon Train to the Stars: The Past, Present and Future of Communication Research in Australia
The history of communication research in Australia reveals that, like the history Australian television, it has involved a process of adaptation and innovation to suit a particular national context. In this article, I pursue the analogy between the two in order to illustrate how the peculiar history of Australian communication research (and Australian television) have created a pedagogical environment in which those who teach in the field of medi…
Missing in Action: On the Invisibility of (Most) Australian Television
Law and Order * Cracker * Prime Suspect
Writing about a television crime drama for a series of British Film Institute monographs, Charlotte Brunsdon, Mark Duguid and Deborah Jermyn each discuss why the particular show upon which they reflect should be considered a TV Classic. For Duguid and Jermyn the task is a tad easier since both Cracker (Granada/ITV, 1993-96, 2006) and Prime Suspect (Granada/ITV, 1991-96, 2003-06) still have an undeniable resonance in today's television environment…
From listening … to the dialogic realities of participatory democracy
The idea of listening offers a means of reframing contemporary media theory and the project of cultural studies in such a way that the other half of communication can enter the picture on an equal footing. Many of the implications, both politically and conceptually, of such a move were canvassed in a special issue of Continuumin 2009.This paper engages with the themes of the special issue and elaborates on the implications through a consideration…
Remembering television: Histories, Technologies, Memories
This path-breaking book extends our knowledge of the social and cultural impacts of television, asking new questions about the ways television's technologies and programming have been experienced, understood and remembered. Television has served as a companion to the historical events that have unfolded in our everyday lives both on and off the screen, and its presence is intricately bound up in our memories of the past and actions in the present…
Socially Inclusive Processes: New Opportunities with New Media
The tools of Web 2.0 and its culture of open collaboration offer a number of new opportunities to individuals, communities and governments. At first glance, many of these opportunities appear to lend themselves to fostering socially inclusive practices, and the report of the Government 2.0 Taskforce in 2009 certainly claimed this. However, while there has been much discussion of social inclusion in policy terms, there has been little consideratio…
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