Bridget Kies
Biographic Data
| ID | 6177879 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bridget Kies |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bridget |
| FAMILY NAME | Kies |
| SIGNATURE | KIES B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oakland University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6391-7030 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Royal Treatment
Introduction Much of the popular scholarship surrounding the House of Windsor, the British royal family, draws on celebrity and star studies to examine how their public personae are manufactured. Red-carpet appearances reiterate the family’s elevated status through wealth and glamor. In A Berry Royal Christmas (BBC, 2019), television personality and chefs Mary Berry and Nadiya Hussain make holiday-themed desserts with Prince William and Princess …
A Vicious Viewership
This paper uses the series Vicious (2013–2016), which aired on the British network ITV and the American noncommercial network PBS, as a case study in transatlantic reception for LGBTQ content. I draw on critical reception for the series, the star personae of lead actors Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen, and studies of American perceptions of British masculinities. The varied reception for the series, understood through the networks’ economic models …
Remediating the Celebrity Roast
This article uses the “Celebrities Read Mean Tweets” segment on late-night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live! as a case study in how television can remediate social media to maintain its dominant position in entertainment. The incorporation of tweets into television appears to demonstrate the power social media has over broadcast media, but a careful study reveals that television and film celebrities use television appearances to denounce “mean tweets”…
Television's “Mr. Moms”
In the 1980s, domestic sitcoms on television proliferated with examples of men who performed domestic labor. In response to the women's movement, these “Mr. Mom” sitcoms liberated women from the domestic sphere and enabled men to claim it as their own. This article examines the potential impact of these series’ foregrounding of men and masculinities. In particular, it examines how the domestication of Mr. Moms highlighted the tensions between “ne…
Men with Stakes
Queer nostalgia and queer histories in uncertain times
Remediating the Celebrity Roast
This article uses the “Celebrities Read Mean Tweets” segment on late-night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live! as a case study in how television can remediate social media to maintain its dominant position in entertainment. The incorporation of tweets into television appears to demonstrate the power social media has over broadcast media, but a careful study reveals that television and film celebrities use television appearances to denounce “mean tweets”…
Queer nostalgia and queer histories in uncertain times
Television's “Mr. Moms”
In the 1980s, domestic sitcoms on television proliferated with examples of men who performed domestic labor. In response to the women's movement, these “Mr. Mom” sitcoms liberated women from the domestic sphere and enabled men to claim it as their own. This article examines the potential impact of these series’ foregrounding of men and masculinities. In particular, it examines how the domestication of Mr. Moms highlighted the tensions between “ne…
Men with Stakes
Remediating the Celebrity Roast
This article uses the “Celebrities Read Mean Tweets” segment on late-night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live! as a case study in how television can remediate social media to maintain its dominant position in entertainment. The incorporation of tweets into television appears to demonstrate the power social media has over broadcast media, but a careful study reveals that television and film celebrities use television appearances to denounce “mean tweets”…
A Vicious Viewership
This paper uses the series Vicious (2013–2016), which aired on the British network ITV and the American noncommercial network PBS, as a case study in transatlantic reception for LGBTQ content. I draw on critical reception for the series, the star personae of lead actors Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen, and studies of American perceptions of British masculinities. The varied reception for the series, understood through the networks’ economic models …
The Royal Treatment
Introduction Much of the popular scholarship surrounding the House of Windsor, the British royal family, draws on celebrity and star studies to examine how their public personae are manufactured. Red-carpet appearances reiterate the family’s elevated status through wealth and glamor. In A Berry Royal Christmas (BBC, 2019), television personality and chefs Mary Berry and Nadiya Hussain make holiday-themed desserts with Prince William and Princess …
Sociology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (3 works) · Law (3 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Masculinity (2 works) · Media studies (2 works)