Diane Negra
Biographic Data
| ID | 640155 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diane Negra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diane |
| FAMILY NAME | Negra |
| SIGNATURE | NEGRA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8400-6239 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 270 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Redesigning doctoral education in South Africa: The case for structured coursework
It is increasingly the norm to include coursework as part of the doctoral curriculum. In this paper, academics from six countries explore how structured coursework can enhance research preparation, build scholarly communities, and develop transferable professional skills, while raising concerns about maintaining flexibility and preserving research time. Every context brings its own histories, values, and norms and so comparing experiences runs th…
Emerging, disappearing, re-emerging: Career arcs of 1990s female stars
Expository Irishness, Garron Noone, and the politics of Irish differentiation in the 2020s
Social media spaces, and influencers, have come to play a central role in the recalibrating of Irishness following the Covid-19 pandemic. This article analyses the social media celebrity of Garron Noone whose (for the most part) non-threatening, de-sexualised likeability works in service of an “expository Irishness” that interpellates viewers at home and abroad. Noone’s signature element is the comic identification of national affective norms and…
Girl Dads: Spectacular girlhood, paternal appropriation, and the cultural dynamics of father-daughter filial attachment
This article examines the cultural figure of the girl dad, which has emerged as a prominent masculine sub-type in the 2020s, celebrating and spectacularising the father-daughter relationship. A diffuse presence across old and new media forms, we trace the girl dad's long-standing origins in film and television right up to its transmedial deployment in diverse contexts including professional self-branding on LinkedIn, a hit comedy special, and an …
Of wife guys and family defenders: Towards a typology of 21st century celebrity husbands
This article considers the cultural emergence and ramifications of two linked masculine cultural types: the ‘wife guy’ and the ‘family defender’. A cultural figure defined by an avowedly uxorious disposition and the public celebration of his spouse, the wife guy is a prominent exemplar of 21st century celebrity masculinity. This article argues that the wife guy typifies the strenuous lengths mainstream popular culture goes to negotiate the intrac…
Status economies and frequent flier expertise: YouTube first class travel videos
This article analyses an emergent category of pre-pandemic YouTube video devoted to documenting and assessing the experience of business/first class air travel. We understand these videos as texts enmeshed in a broader culture of diminished and fraught customer service, inextricable from the complex status economy that has emerged under neoliberal capitalism in general and with particular intensity in commercial aviation. In contrast to the incre…
Pack your patience’: US air travel discourse in Summer 2022
The calamitous performance of airlines and airports in Summer 2022 has transformed a season that was widely touted for the post-pandemic return to travel, into a showcase of the new norms of customer abandonment in 21st-century capitalism. This essay explores the quietest approach by mass media to the abysmal conditions of air travel as sloganized by the phrase ‘pack your patience’, arguing it should be understood as part of a broader turn toward…
Imagining “We” in the Age of “I”: Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture
Mediated immobility and fraught domesticity: Zoom fails and interruption videos in the Covid-19 pandemic
Protracted pandemic shut-downs, which began in Spring 2020, rapidly relocated workplaces to domestic spaces. This article explores how “home” as a distinctly gendered space has been recalibrated in the pandemic to accommodate a range of new uses. Detailing the ever-increasing scrutiny of and technological intrusion into the home/private space, we examine the now curtailed mobility of professional class workers and the conspicuous gendering of new…
Reconsidering television true crime and gendered authority in Allen v. Farrow
This essay examines how the 2021 HBO docu-series Allen v.Farrowdestabilizes a “he said/she said” framing of historic child sex abuse accusations against Hollywood auteur Woody Allen. Joining a number of other recent docu-series on celebrity sexual abuse cases, Allen v.Farrow repurposes the long-form true crime structure to focus sustained investigative attention on sexual violence as a crime that demands social justice. Refuting charges that the …
Sizing up the ‘Dadbod’: Fitness, age and resistance in a male body type
This article considers the cultural significance of a body type that has been largely overlooked in contemporary masculinities scholarship: the ‘Dadbod’. Defying popular culture’s typical preference for midlife invisibility, the paunchy physique of the Dadbod (often with ‘love handles’) centres a split discourse in being the object of both celebration and opprobrium. Prevalent in both celebrity and lifestyle discourse (often in contradictory ways…
Climate and culture in The Pioneer Woman
The kitchen is one of the sites in which midlife women whose bodies do not conform to post-feminist standards of attractiveness attain visibility. In the case of multimedia food personality Ree Drummond, her renown was initially secured by the proficient imaging of her food preparation, her children and her way of life on a remote Oklahoma ranch, first via social media and subsequently expanding onto television via the Food Network. Following on …
Television in/of the banal Anthropocene: Introduction
The Media (Studies) of the Pandemic Moment: Introduction to the 20th Anniversary Issue
Television & New Media commemorates its 20th year anniversary with this diverse collection of short reflection pieces on the “intellectual and institutional turbulence” facing media studies and the ways our colleagues have taken up these challenges in their work. Our introduction to the anniversary issue specifically addresses the role of media and media studies in the COVID-19 pandemic moment. On the one hand, our discipline has the opportunity …
Querying ‘Karen’: The rise of the angry white woman
The (often memetic) figure of the white female ‘Karen’ has surged to prominence of late, moving from social media vernacular into broader usage at exactly the moment when twin crises of public health and racial social justice have fomented momentous change and uncertainty in American life. The angry ‘Karen’ is invoked to indicate her manipulation of her racial power, but she is equally significant, we suggest, for her positioning within a pre-exi…
Ireland Inc: The corporatization of affective life in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland
Employing a framework of commercial nationalism, this article analyses how a post-Celtic Tiger Irish government aligned with elite interests has doubled down on its commitment to corporate citizenship. Despite the depredations of this era being directly attributable to the irrational exuberance of the Celtic Tiger period and lapses in financial regulation, Ireland post-2008 is marked by a radical forgetfulness and defined by ‘Shock Doctrine’ regu…
Broadcasting Irish emigration in an era of global mobility
This article examines how pre-existing Irish migratory cultural logics have been re-tooled in the post-Celtic Tiger period as a form of adaptation to the new imperatives of global capitalism. In this analysis, we show that just as Julien Mercille has discovered in regard to the Irish press and its role in normalizing and promoting neoliberal responses to the economic crisis, representations of the new emigration in the Irish broadcasting environm…
Animality, domesticity and masculinity inMy Cat From Hell
This article analyses a US reality TV series for the way it reflects two coinciding phenomena: the elevation of animals to a new domestic status in which their needs and interests demand significant time, care and money and the rise of male-fronted instructional lifestyle television. The commercial dimensions of what has been characterised as 'America's hyper-profitable obsession with its dogs and cats' are apparent in dramatic sales rises of pre…
‘I hate to be the feminist here…’: Reading the post-epitaph chick flick
Numerous accounts in recent years have announced (often zealously) the death of the chick flick, a genre whose output has conspicuously slowed since a peak in the 1990s. We analyse here two recent hits from the ‘post-epitaph’ phase in order to understand the kinds of generic updates such films are attempting and how they place women in regard to changing gender norms and the conditions of neoliberal capitalism. We find that in Trainwreck (2015) a…
Old and New Media after Katrina
The Reality Celebrity of Donald Trump
Intergenerational feminism and media: A roundtable
This is the edited text of a roundtable held at City University London, UK in November 2014, organised by Alison Winch and Jo Littler. The event aimed to pay attention to the ways in which age and generation shape mediated conversation about feminist politics: to problematise the dominant media representations of intergenerational “cat fights,” or feminist bickering, while simultaneously interrogating the ways in which mediated conflicts and conn…
Emigration, return migration and surprise homecomings in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland
This article explores the cultural and ideological management of mass migration in twenty-first-century Ireland, arguing that narratives of return have come to dominate representations of emigration. The almost universal focus on the moment or experience of return distinguishes the current era from other periods of high emigration in Ireland. The phenomenon of the surprise homecoming video is scrutinised alongside recent cinematic releases, newsp…
Extreme Weather and Global Media
Introduction: Extreme Weather and Global Media Julia Leyda and Diane Negra 1. Televising Superstorm Sandy: New Configurations of Poverty and Neoliberalism in Extreme Weather Coverage Jon Kraszewski 2. Eye of the Storm: CCTV, Surveillance and Media Representations of Extreme Weather Justin Carville 3. Picturing High Water: The 2013 Floods in Southeastern Germany and Colorado Susanne Leikam 4. Blowtorch Britain: Labor, Heat and Neo-Victorian Values…
Gendering the Recession: Media and Culture in an Age of Austerity
This timely, necessary collection of essays provides feminist analyses of a recession-era media culture characterized by the reemergence and refashioning of familiar gender tropes, including crisis masculinity, coping women, and postfeminist self-renewal. Interpreting media forms as diverse as reality television, financial journalism, novels, lifestyle blogs, popular cinema, and advertising, the contributors reveal gendered narratives that recur …
Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture
This timely collection brings feminist critique to bear on contemporary postfeminist mass media culture, analyzing phenomena ranging from action films featuring violent heroines to the "girling" of aging women in productions such as the movie Something's Gotta Give and the British television series 10 Years Younger . Broadly defined, "postfeminism" encompasses a set of assumptions that feminism has accomplished its goals and is now a thing of the…
Emigration, return migration and surprise homecomings in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland
This article explores the cultural and ideological management of mass migration in twenty-first-century Ireland, arguing that narratives of return have come to dominate representations of emigration. The almost universal focus on the moment or experience of return distinguishes the current era from other periods of high emigration in Ireland. The phenomenon of the surprise homecoming video is scrutinised alongside recent cinematic releases, newsp…
Ireland Inc: The corporatization of affective life in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland
Employing a framework of commercial nationalism, this article analyses how a post-Celtic Tiger Irish government aligned with elite interests has doubled down on its commitment to corporate citizenship. Despite the depredations of this era being directly attributable to the irrational exuberance of the Celtic Tiger period and lapses in financial regulation, Ireland post-2008 is marked by a radical forgetfulness and defined by ‘Shock Doctrine’ regu…
Querying ‘Karen’: The rise of the angry white woman
The (often memetic) figure of the white female ‘Karen’ has surged to prominence of late, moving from social media vernacular into broader usage at exactly the moment when twin crises of public health and racial social justice have fomented momentous change and uncertainty in American life. The angry ‘Karen’ is invoked to indicate her manipulation of her racial power, but she is equally significant, we suggest, for her positioning within a pre-exi…
The New Primitives: Irishness in Recent US Television
2001). The New Primitives: Irishness in Recent US Television. Irish Studies Review: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 229-239
Extreme Weather and Global Media
Introduction: Extreme Weather and Global Media Julia Leyda and Diane Negra 1. Televising Superstorm Sandy: New Configurations of Poverty and Neoliberalism in Extreme Weather Coverage Jon Kraszewski 2. Eye of the Storm: CCTV, Surveillance and Media Representations of Extreme Weather Justin Carville 3. Picturing High Water: The 2013 Floods in Southeastern Germany and Colorado Susanne Leikam 4. Blowtorch Britain: Labor, Heat and Neo-Victorian Values…
Claiming feminism: Commentary, Autobiography and Advice Literature for Women in the Recession
Feminist academics have grown accustomed to the disparagement and misrepresentation of our intellectual endeavours in a climate of antifeminist postfeminism. Yet, in recent years, the position of public feminism has shifted as it is increasingly invoked by celebrities for whom it often functions as a credential of entrepreneurial self-branding. This article identifies and conducts a preliminary analysis of a set of female-authored print texts pub…
Neoliberal frames and genres of inequality: Recession-era chick flicks and male-centred corporate melodrama
Media forms play a vital role in making cultural and political sense of the complex economic developments and profound ideological uncertainties which have accompanied the global recession. This article analyses how popular genre cinema tackles the inequalities – in particular, gender inequalities – that follow from the financial crisis, situating Hollywood’s representational strategies in the context of recessionary media culture. It posits and …
Gender, Nation, and Reality TV
Structural Integrity, Historical Reversion, And The Post-9/11 Chick Flick
This article examines a set of post-9/11 Hollywood romantic comedies, arguing that these films innovate the genre by setting aside the light-hearted urban romanticization so characteristic of the form in favor of an anxious preoccupation with structural, national and gender stability. In keeping with the highly traditionalist discursive climate in the period of their release, Maid in Manhattan, Two Weeks' Notice, and How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days…
Reconsidering television true crime and gendered authority in Allen v. Farrow
This essay examines how the 2021 HBO docu-series Allen v.Farrowdestabilizes a “he said/she said” framing of historic child sex abuse accusations against Hollywood auteur Woody Allen. Joining a number of other recent docu-series on celebrity sexual abuse cases, Allen v.Farrow repurposes the long-form true crime structure to focus sustained investigative attention on sexual violence as a crime that demands social justice. Refuting charges that the …
Broadcasting Irish emigration in an era of global mobility
This article examines how pre-existing Irish migratory cultural logics have been re-tooled in the post-Celtic Tiger period as a form of adaptation to the new imperatives of global capitalism. In this analysis, we show that just as Julien Mercille has discovered in regard to the Irish press and its role in normalizing and promoting neoliberal responses to the economic crisis, representations of the new emigration in the Irish broadcasting environm…
Mediated immobility and fraught domesticity: Zoom fails and interruption videos in the Covid-19 pandemic
Protracted pandemic shut-downs, which began in Spring 2020, rapidly relocated workplaces to domestic spaces. This article explores how “home” as a distinctly gendered space has been recalibrated in the pandemic to accommodate a range of new uses. Detailing the ever-increasing scrutiny of and technological intrusion into the home/private space, we examine the now curtailed mobility of professional class workers and the conspicuous gendering of new…
Of wife guys and family defenders: Towards a typology of 21st century celebrity husbands
This article considers the cultural emergence and ramifications of two linked masculine cultural types: the ‘wife guy’ and the ‘family defender’. A cultural figure defined by an avowedly uxorious disposition and the public celebration of his spouse, the wife guy is a prominent exemplar of 21st century celebrity masculinity. This article argues that the wife guy typifies the strenuous lengths mainstream popular culture goes to negotiate the intrac…
Sizing up the ‘Dadbod’: Fitness, age and resistance in a male body type
This article considers the cultural significance of a body type that has been largely overlooked in contemporary masculinities scholarship: the ‘Dadbod’. Defying popular culture’s typical preference for midlife invisibility, the paunchy physique of the Dadbod (often with ‘love handles’) centres a split discourse in being the object of both celebration and opprobrium. Prevalent in both celebrity and lifestyle discourse (often in contradictory ways…
Television in/of the banal Anthropocene: Introduction
The Media (Studies) of the Pandemic Moment: Introduction to the 20th Anniversary Issue
Television & New Media commemorates its 20th year anniversary with this diverse collection of short reflection pieces on the “intellectual and institutional turbulence” facing media studies and the ways our colleagues have taken up these challenges in their work. Our introduction to the anniversary issue specifically addresses the role of media and media studies in the COVID-19 pandemic moment. On the one hand, our discipline has the opportunity …
The Reality Celebrity of Donald Trump
Intergenerational feminism and media: A roundtable
This is the edited text of a roundtable held at City University London, UK in November 2014, organised by Alison Winch and Jo Littler. The event aimed to pay attention to the ways in which age and generation shape mediated conversation about feminist politics: to problematise the dominant media representations of intergenerational “cat fights,” or feminist bickering, while simultaneously interrogating the ways in which mediated conflicts and conn…
Postfeminism and the Archive for the Future
Research Article| September 01 2006 Postfeminism and the Archive for the Future Yvonne Tasker; Yvonne Tasker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Diane Negra Diane Negra Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (2 (62)): 170–176. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2006-006 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Yvonne Tasker, …
Consuming Ireland: Lucky Charms Cereal, Irish Spring Soap and 1-800-Shamrock
This article analyses some of the most prominent and long-lasting US advertising campaigns that have engaged themes of Irishness. The trend toward using Irishness to sanitize the commodified nature of goods and services in a variety of US television commercials has accelerated dramatically at the end of the 1990s. Expanding upon the formative campaigns discussed here, corporate brands as varied as General Foods International Coffees, AT & T Long …
The New Primitives: Irishness in Recent US Television
Introduction: Female Stardom and Early Film History
The New Primitives: Irishness in Recent US Television
2001). The New Primitives: Irishness in Recent US Television. Irish Studies Review: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 229-239
Immigrant Stardom in Imperial America: Pola Negri and the Problem of Typology
Diane Negra is an assistant professor in the Department of Radio, TV, and Film at the University of North Texas. She is author of Off-White Hollywood: American Culture and Ethnic Female Stardom (forthcoming from Routledge) and coeditor with Jennifer Bean of A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema (forthcoming from Duke University Press
A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema
A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema marks a new era of feminist film scholarship. The twenty essays collected here demonstrate how feminist historiographies at once alter and enrich ongoing debates over visuality and identification, authorship, stardom, and nationalist ideologies in and media studies. Drawing extensively on archival research, the collection yields startling accounts of women's multiple roles as producers, directors, writers, stars,…
Feminist Reader in Early Cinema
Irish in Us: Irishness, Performativity, and Popular Culture
The Irish in Us: Irishness, Performativity, and Popular Culture
The Irish in Us: Irishness, Performativity, and Popular Culture
Over the past decade or so, Irishness has emerged as an idealized ethnicity, one with which large numbers of people around the world, and particularly in the United States, choose to identify. Seeking to explain the widespread appeal of all things Irish, the contributors to this collection show that for Americans, Irishness is rapidly becoming the white ethnicity of choice, a means of claiming an ethnic identity while maintaining the benefits of …
Postfeminism and the Archive for the Future
Research Article| September 01 2006 Postfeminism and the Archive for the Future Yvonne Tasker; Yvonne Tasker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Diane Negra Diane Negra Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (2006) 21 (2 (62)): 170–176. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2006-006 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Yvonne Tasker, …
Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture
This timely collection brings feminist critique to bear on contemporary postfeminist mass media culture, analyzing phenomena ranging from action films featuring violent heroines to the "girling" of aging women in productions such as the movie Something's Gotta Give and the British television series 10 Years Younger . Broadly defined, "postfeminism" encompasses a set of assumptions that feminism has accomplished its goals and is now a thing of the…
What a Girl Wants: Fantasizing the Reclamation of Self in Postfeminism
From domestic goddess to desperate housewife, this book explores the importance and centrality of postfeminism in contemporary popular culture
Structural Integrity, Historical Reversion, And The Post-9/11 Chick Flick
This article examines a set of post-9/11 Hollywood romantic comedies, arguing that these films innovate the genre by setting aside the light-hearted urban romanticization so characteristic of the form in favor of an anxious preoccupation with structural, national and gender stability. In keeping with the highly traditionalist discursive climate in the period of their release, Maid in Manhattan, Two Weeks' Notice, and How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days…
‘Queen of the indies’: Parker Posey’s niche stardom and the taste cultures of independent film
Urban Space, Luxury Retailing and the New Irishness
Written in 2006, at the end of an era that Fintan O'Toole has aptly characterized as one in which the Irish economy served as ‘the poster child of free-market globalization,’ (O'Toole, F., Ship of Fools: How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger, London, Faber & Faber, 2009) this essay seeks to elucidate some of the features of what we might now designate late stage Celtic Tigerism. Its central concern is with an exploration of the affec…
Gender, Nation, and Reality TV
On not watching Oprah in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland
Neoliberal frames and genres of inequality: Recession-era chick flicks and male-centred corporate melodrama
Media forms play a vital role in making cultural and political sense of the complex economic developments and profound ideological uncertainties which have accompanied the global recession. This article analyses how popular genre cinema tackles the inequalities – in particular, gender inequalities – that follow from the financial crisis, situating Hollywood’s representational strategies in the context of recessionary media culture. It posits and …
Gendering the Recession: Media and Culture in an Age of Austerity
This timely, necessary collection of essays provides feminist analyses of a recession-era media culture characterized by the reemergence and refashioning of familiar gender tropes, including crisis masculinity, coping women, and postfeminist self-renewal. Interpreting media forms as diverse as reality television, financial journalism, novels, lifestyle blogs, popular cinema, and advertising, the contributors reveal gendered narratives that recur …
Adjusting Men and Abiding Mammies: Gendering the Recession in Ireland
In a 2011 article in the US magazine Vanity Fair financial journalist Michael Lewis offered an account of the collapse of the Celtic Tiger. The article consistently sustains a gendered subtext and early on it conveys the frequently made (if seldom elaborated or explored) point that cultures of male entitlement and risk had much to do with the global financial collapse. Specifically, notes Lewis, ‘Ireland’s financial collapse ... was created by th…
Claiming feminism: Commentary, Autobiography and Advice Literature for Women in the Recession
Feminist academics have grown accustomed to the disparagement and misrepresentation of our intellectual endeavours in a climate of antifeminist postfeminism. Yet, in recent years, the position of public feminism has shifted as it is increasingly invoked by celebrities for whom it often functions as a credential of entrepreneurial self-branding. This article identifies and conducts a preliminary analysis of a set of female-authored print texts pub…
Extreme Weather and Global Media
Introduction: Extreme Weather and Global Media Julia Leyda and Diane Negra 1. Televising Superstorm Sandy: New Configurations of Poverty and Neoliberalism in Extreme Weather Coverage Jon Kraszewski 2. Eye of the Storm: CCTV, Surveillance and Media Representations of Extreme Weather Justin Carville 3. Picturing High Water: The 2013 Floods in Southeastern Germany and Colorado Susanne Leikam 4. Blowtorch Britain: Labor, Heat and Neo-Victorian Values…
Old and New Media after Katrina
The Reality Celebrity of Donald Trump
Sociology (34 works) · Art (25 works) · Political science (25 works) · Law (20 works) · Gender Studies (18 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (18 works) · History (17 works) · Media studies (15 works) · Aesthetics (14 works) · Literature (14 works)