J Newsinger
Biographic Data
| ID | 49197 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Newsinger |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Newsinger |
| SIGNATURE | NEWSINGER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6908-755X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
It’s like sunk cost fallacy or something they call it: The role of symbolic, social and economic capital in worker motivations for staying in the UK television production sector
This paper seeks to explain why workers stay within the UK TV production sector, despite its well-documented problems. By drawing together literature around Bourdieu’s forms of capital with the concept of sunk costs, the paper argues that sunk cost fallacy (i.e. the time, effort and investments already incurred by the individual worker) is a central motivation for professionals retaining their place within the industry. It is particularly the not…
Is television reformable? The ‘reformist tendency’ in inequality research in the cultural and creative industries
This article engages with research on UK Television (UKTV) and the wider cultural and creative industries by interrogating the role of academic research in industrial and social change. We argue that a ‘reformist tendency’ implicitly structures much creative industries research. This reformist tendency takes a critical approach to the problem of inequality, identifying it and making it visible, and at times developing strategies which attempt to …
Locked down and locked out: Mothers and UKTV work during the Covid-19 pandemic
COVID-19 and the associated government lockdowns in the UK had dramatic impacts on the UK's creative industries. This article explores these impacts on mothers working in UK Television (UKTV), on their ability to work, finances, and mental health. It is based on the largest survey ever conducted of this group. It is argued that the COVID-19 crisis revealed and compounded the long-standing incompatibility between gendered, unpaid care work and the…
Explicit and Implicit Diversity Policy in the UK Film and Television Industries
This article adapts Jeremy Ahearne's conception of explicit and implicit cultural policy for a novel analysis of contemporary diversity policy in the British film and television industries. It demonstrates how distinguishing explicit and implicit diversity policy enables a better understanding of the policies, practices and strategic actions that impact workforce diversity outcomes. We provide an in-depth analysis of the different types of interv…
Introduction: Diversity in British Film and Television: Policy, Industry and Representation
Performative resilience: How the arts and culture support austerity in post-crisis capitalism
Resilience is a key theme in contemporary post-crisis capitalism, prominent across government policy, popular discourses, business and management thinking and academia. This article is about the deployment of the concept of resilience in cultural policy and practice under conditions of austerity. It is based on an extensive engagement with literature, an analysis of cultural policy discourse and qualitative data drawn from 23 in-depth interviews …
United Kingdom: Film Funding, the “Corporate Welfare System” and Its Discontents
And … action? Gender, knowledge and inequalities in the UK screen industries
This article explores how a knowledge ecology framework can help us better understand the production of gender knowledge, especially in relation to improving gender equality. Drawing on Law, Ruppert, and Savage, it analyses what knowledge of gender inequality is made visible and actionable in the case of the UK screen sector. We show: (i) that the gender knowledge production for the UK screen sector operated with reductionist understandings of ge…
Arts policy and practice for disabled children and young people: Towards a ‘practice spectrum’ approach
This article argues for an approach to the evaluation of arts policy and practice for disabled children and young people that goes beyond the dialogic antagonism between Disability Arts and community arts, and towards a ‘practice spectrum’. Little is known about the extent to which a Disability Arts perspective has extended into arts policy and practice for disabled children and young people. The article aims to redress this knowledge gap. It is …
The infrapolitics of cultural value: Cultural Policy, Evaluation and the Marginalisation of Practitioner Perspectives
This article is about the politics of cultural value. It focusses on the representations of value that exist in the epistemologies and methodologies of cultural impact evaluation and the discrepancies between these official discourses and the discourses that correspond to cultural practitioners themselves. First the article outlines the critique of dominant forms of cultural impact evaluation, particularly the instrumentalisation of culture. In t…
A cultural shock doctrine? Austerity, the neoliberal state and the creative industries discourse
A number of writers have made the argument that the development creative industries policy discourse in the United Kingdom and elsewhere represents the articulation of a politics that is neoliberal in character. The marginalisation of Blairism in the United Kingdom, and the Liberal Democrat-Conservative Coalition Government’s adoption of an ever more explicit neoliberal dogma in its radical restructuring/dismantling of the welfare state, provides…
British Film Policy in an Age of Austerity
The rise of The King's Speech from a British independent film to a worldwide commercial and critical phenomenon is a huge testament to the creators, the cast and everyone involved.It's a magnificent final chapter for the UK Film Council.(Tanya Seghatchian, in UKFC 2011) We are committed to supporting the film industry [. . .] There is a great tip and key to filmmakers, which is that we must make films that people want to watch, and films that wil…
The politics of regional audio-visual policy in England: Or, how we learnt to stop worrying and get ‘creative’
This article examines the transition from cultural industries to creative industries policies in the English regions between 1980 and 2010. It argues that audio-visual policy in this period is best understood as a trajectory: the gradual, differentiated, contested, but overall coherent development of a policy discourse and corresponding institutional structure. This trajectory can be mapped onto the wider political economy of the period: the tran…
The ‘Cultural Burden’: Regional film policy and practice in England
This article looks at the development of film policy and practice in the English regions. It asks: how has the ‘territorialization’ of film policy and funding affected regional modes of film production? And further, how is film as a cultural practice manifested in contemporary regional film production? The article is divided into two sections. The first outlines the development of regional film policy and practice from the 1970s, paying particula…
The infrapolitics of cultural value: Cultural Policy, Evaluation and the Marginalisation of Practitioner Perspectives
This article is about the politics of cultural value. It focusses on the representations of value that exist in the epistemologies and methodologies of cultural impact evaluation and the discrepancies between these official discourses and the discourses that correspond to cultural practitioners themselves. First the article outlines the critique of dominant forms of cultural impact evaluation, particularly the instrumentalisation of culture. In t…
Performative resilience: How the arts and culture support austerity in post-crisis capitalism
Resilience is a key theme in contemporary post-crisis capitalism, prominent across government policy, popular discourses, business and management thinking and academia. This article is about the deployment of the concept of resilience in cultural policy and practice under conditions of austerity. It is based on an extensive engagement with literature, an analysis of cultural policy discourse and qualitative data drawn from 23 in-depth interviews …
A cultural shock doctrine? Austerity, the neoliberal state and the creative industries discourse
A number of writers have made the argument that the development creative industries policy discourse in the United Kingdom and elsewhere represents the articulation of a politics that is neoliberal in character. The marginalisation of Blairism in the United Kingdom, and the Liberal Democrat-Conservative Coalition Government’s adoption of an ever more explicit neoliberal dogma in its radical restructuring/dismantling of the welfare state, provides…
The politics of regional audio-visual policy in England: Or, how we learnt to stop worrying and get ‘creative’
This article examines the transition from cultural industries to creative industries policies in the English regions between 1980 and 2010. It argues that audio-visual policy in this period is best understood as a trajectory: the gradual, differentiated, contested, but overall coherent development of a policy discourse and corresponding institutional structure. This trajectory can be mapped onto the wider political economy of the period: the tran…
Locked down and locked out: Mothers and UKTV work during the Covid-19 pandemic
COVID-19 and the associated government lockdowns in the UK had dramatic impacts on the UK's creative industries. This article explores these impacts on mothers working in UK Television (UKTV), on their ability to work, finances, and mental health. It is based on the largest survey ever conducted of this group. It is argued that the COVID-19 crisis revealed and compounded the long-standing incompatibility between gendered, unpaid care work and the…
Arts policy and practice for disabled children and young people: Towards a ‘practice spectrum’ approach
This article argues for an approach to the evaluation of arts policy and practice for disabled children and young people that goes beyond the dialogic antagonism between Disability Arts and community arts, and towards a ‘practice spectrum’. Little is known about the extent to which a Disability Arts perspective has extended into arts policy and practice for disabled children and young people. The article aims to redress this knowledge gap. It is …
The ‘Cultural Burden’: Regional film policy and practice in England
This article looks at the development of film policy and practice in the English regions. It asks: how has the ‘territorialization’ of film policy and funding affected regional modes of film production? And further, how is film as a cultural practice manifested in contemporary regional film production? The article is divided into two sections. The first outlines the development of regional film policy and practice from the 1970s, paying particula…
The politics of regional audio-visual policy in England: Or, how we learnt to stop worrying and get ‘creative’
This article examines the transition from cultural industries to creative industries policies in the English regions between 1980 and 2010. It argues that audio-visual policy in this period is best understood as a trajectory: the gradual, differentiated, contested, but overall coherent development of a policy discourse and corresponding institutional structure. This trajectory can be mapped onto the wider political economy of the period: the tran…
British Film Policy in an Age of Austerity
The rise of The King's Speech from a British independent film to a worldwide commercial and critical phenomenon is a huge testament to the creators, the cast and everyone involved.It's a magnificent final chapter for the UK Film Council.(Tanya Seghatchian, in UKFC 2011) We are committed to supporting the film industry [. . .] There is a great tip and key to filmmakers, which is that we must make films that people want to watch, and films that wil…
A cultural shock doctrine? Austerity, the neoliberal state and the creative industries discourse
A number of writers have made the argument that the development creative industries policy discourse in the United Kingdom and elsewhere represents the articulation of a politics that is neoliberal in character. The marginalisation of Blairism in the United Kingdom, and the Liberal Democrat-Conservative Coalition Government’s adoption of an ever more explicit neoliberal dogma in its radical restructuring/dismantling of the welfare state, provides…
Arts policy and practice for disabled children and young people: Towards a ‘practice spectrum’ approach
This article argues for an approach to the evaluation of arts policy and practice for disabled children and young people that goes beyond the dialogic antagonism between Disability Arts and community arts, and towards a ‘practice spectrum’. Little is known about the extent to which a Disability Arts perspective has extended into arts policy and practice for disabled children and young people. The article aims to redress this knowledge gap. It is …
The infrapolitics of cultural value: Cultural Policy, Evaluation and the Marginalisation of Practitioner Perspectives
This article is about the politics of cultural value. It focusses on the representations of value that exist in the epistemologies and methodologies of cultural impact evaluation and the discrepancies between these official discourses and the discourses that correspond to cultural practitioners themselves. First the article outlines the critique of dominant forms of cultural impact evaluation, particularly the instrumentalisation of culture. In t…
United Kingdom: Film Funding, the “Corporate Welfare System” and Its Discontents
And … action? Gender, knowledge and inequalities in the UK screen industries
This article explores how a knowledge ecology framework can help us better understand the production of gender knowledge, especially in relation to improving gender equality. Drawing on Law, Ruppert, and Savage, it analyses what knowledge of gender inequality is made visible and actionable in the case of the UK screen sector. We show: (i) that the gender knowledge production for the UK screen sector operated with reductionist understandings of ge…
Performative resilience: How the arts and culture support austerity in post-crisis capitalism
Resilience is a key theme in contemporary post-crisis capitalism, prominent across government policy, popular discourses, business and management thinking and academia. This article is about the deployment of the concept of resilience in cultural policy and practice under conditions of austerity. It is based on an extensive engagement with literature, an analysis of cultural policy discourse and qualitative data drawn from 23 in-depth interviews …
Explicit and Implicit Diversity Policy in the UK Film and Television Industries
This article adapts Jeremy Ahearne's conception of explicit and implicit cultural policy for a novel analysis of contemporary diversity policy in the British film and television industries. It demonstrates how distinguishing explicit and implicit diversity policy enables a better understanding of the policies, practices and strategic actions that impact workforce diversity outcomes. We provide an in-depth analysis of the different types of interv…
Introduction: Diversity in British Film and Television: Policy, Industry and Representation
Locked down and locked out: Mothers and UKTV work during the Covid-19 pandemic
COVID-19 and the associated government lockdowns in the UK had dramatic impacts on the UK's creative industries. This article explores these impacts on mothers working in UK Television (UKTV), on their ability to work, finances, and mental health. It is based on the largest survey ever conducted of this group. It is argued that the COVID-19 crisis revealed and compounded the long-standing incompatibility between gendered, unpaid care work and the…
Is television reformable? The ‘reformist tendency’ in inequality research in the cultural and creative industries
This article engages with research on UK Television (UKTV) and the wider cultural and creative industries by interrogating the role of academic research in industrial and social change. We argue that a ‘reformist tendency’ implicitly structures much creative industries research. This reformist tendency takes a critical approach to the problem of inequality, identifying it and making it visible, and at times developing strategies which attempt to …
It’s like sunk cost fallacy or something they call it: The role of symbolic, social and economic capital in worker motivations for staying in the UK television production sector
This paper seeks to explain why workers stay within the UK TV production sector, despite its well-documented problems. By drawing together literature around Bourdieu’s forms of capital with the concept of sunk costs, the paper argues that sunk cost fallacy (i.e. the time, effort and investments already incurred by the individual worker) is a central motivation for professionals retaining their place within the industry. It is particularly the not…
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