Laura Minor
Biographic Data
| ID | 6696451 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Minor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Minor |
| SIGNATURE | MINOR L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Salford |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8567-3762 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sacrificial merit
Research on media and creative labour has long shown that television work combines creative fulfilment with insecurity, long hours and unequal access. This article argues that excessive working time matters not only because it damages wellbeing, but because it becomes an evaluative mechanism through which professional worth is judged. In doing so, it helps explain why overwork remains difficult to challenge. Drawing on 40 semi-structured intervie…
What Do We Know About Class in Television Studies
This article offers a comprehensive overview of class in Television Studies, focusing on public service broadcasting (PSB) in Britain. We examine both off-screen and on-screen dynamics, investigating workforce composition, commissioning processes, production practices and representation across genres, with a particular focus on drama. By synthesising research from scholars, industry professionals and policy-makers, we trace the evolution of class…
POD goes to Westminster
This article analyses a viral X post in which the author used Grok, an AI image generator, to produce a ‘makeunder’ of newly elected Green MP Hannah Spencer, modelled on the BBC Three reality series Snog Marry Avoid? (2008-2013). Drawing on Pickering’s (2014) analysis of makeover television and class, Kay’s (2020) concept of communicative injustice, and Parry and Johnson’s (2021) study of gendered parliamentary performance, it argues that the pos…
Intergenerational divides as a mechanism of class inequality in UK television drama
In this article, we theorise generation as a structuring mechanism of class inequality in UK television drama. Drawing on 64 interviews across two anonymised case studies (a long-running BBC drama and a Channel 4 multi-episode drama) and supplementary industry interviews, we show how broadcast-era stability and platform-era precarity produce distinct, classed dispositions towards skill, authority and cultural value. We argue that audience-age seg…
Luma's Labor
While the emergence of the multispecies documentary has created new possibilities for representing animal consciousness on-screen, this article argues that these global developments must be understood within specific national contexts. Andrea Arnold's documentary Cow (UK, 2021) demonstrates how new realist techniques—evolved from Britain's social realist tradition and transformed by female filmmakers in the twenty-first century—offer distinctive …
Alma's (Not) Normal
This article examines the BBC sitcom Alma's Not Normal and its representation of white working-class femininities in/on British TV comedy. After The Royle Family creator Caroline Aherne's death in July 2017, the BBC created a bursary in memory of the comedy star, awarding £5,000 to the successful applicant to develop a pilot comedy script. Though open to people of all backgrounds and genders, the three winners so far have been working-class women…
U OK hun’? Classed femininities, meme culture and locating humour in the celebrity ‘hun’
This article examines ‘huns’ – specifically celebrity huns in the public spotlight – as memetic ‘figures’ who are defined by their loud, tongue-in-cheek and humorous display of British femininities coded as working class. Unlike other female figures routinely mocked and laughed at in contemporary popular culture (such as the ‘chav[ette]’ in Britain and ‘Karens’ in America), huns have been celebrated online in a seemingly more progressive and supp…
Shameless television
The UK television drama Shameless (Channel 4, 2004–2011) ran for eleven series, ending with its 138th episode in 2011. The closing episode did not only mark an end, however, but also a beginning – of a US remake on Showtime (2011-). Eight series down the line and carrying the weight of critical acclaim, this article works to consider the textual representations and formal constructions of gender through the process of adaptation. Paying close att…
Visualizing Vacancy
Other| July 01 2013 Visualizing Vacancy Laura Minor Laura Minor Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2013) 41 (1): 37. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2013.41.1.37 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Laura Minor; Visualizing Vac…
U OK hun’? Classed femininities, meme culture and locating humour in the celebrity ‘hun’
This article examines ‘huns’ – specifically celebrity huns in the public spotlight – as memetic ‘figures’ who are defined by their loud, tongue-in-cheek and humorous display of British femininities coded as working class. Unlike other female figures routinely mocked and laughed at in contemporary popular culture (such as the ‘chav[ette]’ in Britain and ‘Karens’ in America), huns have been celebrated online in a seemingly more progressive and supp…
Shameless television
The UK television drama Shameless (Channel 4, 2004–2011) ran for eleven series, ending with its 138th episode in 2011. The closing episode did not only mark an end, however, but also a beginning – of a US remake on Showtime (2011-). Eight series down the line and carrying the weight of critical acclaim, this article works to consider the textual representations and formal constructions of gender through the process of adaptation. Paying close att…
Visualizing Vacancy
Other| July 01 2013 Visualizing Vacancy Laura Minor Laura Minor Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2013) 41 (1): 37. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2013.41.1.37 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Laura Minor; Visualizing Vac…
Shameless television
The UK television drama Shameless (Channel 4, 2004–2011) ran for eleven series, ending with its 138th episode in 2011. The closing episode did not only mark an end, however, but also a beginning – of a US remake on Showtime (2011-). Eight series down the line and carrying the weight of critical acclaim, this article works to consider the textual representations and formal constructions of gender through the process of adaptation. Paying close att…
U OK hun’? Classed femininities, meme culture and locating humour in the celebrity ‘hun’
This article examines ‘huns’ – specifically celebrity huns in the public spotlight – as memetic ‘figures’ who are defined by their loud, tongue-in-cheek and humorous display of British femininities coded as working class. Unlike other female figures routinely mocked and laughed at in contemporary popular culture (such as the ‘chav[ette]’ in Britain and ‘Karens’ in America), huns have been celebrated online in a seemingly more progressive and supp…
Alma's (Not) Normal
This article examines the BBC sitcom Alma's Not Normal and its representation of white working-class femininities in/on British TV comedy. After The Royle Family creator Caroline Aherne's death in July 2017, the BBC created a bursary in memory of the comedy star, awarding £5,000 to the successful applicant to develop a pilot comedy script. Though open to people of all backgrounds and genders, the three winners so far have been working-class women…
Sacrificial merit
Research on media and creative labour has long shown that television work combines creative fulfilment with insecurity, long hours and unequal access. This article argues that excessive working time matters not only because it damages wellbeing, but because it becomes an evaluative mechanism through which professional worth is judged. In doing so, it helps explain why overwork remains difficult to challenge. Drawing on 40 semi-structured intervie…
What Do We Know About Class in Television Studies
This article offers a comprehensive overview of class in Television Studies, focusing on public service broadcasting (PSB) in Britain. We examine both off-screen and on-screen dynamics, investigating workforce composition, commissioning processes, production practices and representation across genres, with a particular focus on drama. By synthesising research from scholars, industry professionals and policy-makers, we trace the evolution of class…
POD goes to Westminster
This article analyses a viral X post in which the author used Grok, an AI image generator, to produce a ‘makeunder’ of newly elected Green MP Hannah Spencer, modelled on the BBC Three reality series Snog Marry Avoid? (2008-2013). Drawing on Pickering’s (2014) analysis of makeover television and class, Kay’s (2020) concept of communicative injustice, and Parry and Johnson’s (2021) study of gendered parliamentary performance, it argues that the pos…
Intergenerational divides as a mechanism of class inequality in UK television drama
In this article, we theorise generation as a structuring mechanism of class inequality in UK television drama. Drawing on 64 interviews across two anonymised case studies (a long-running BBC drama and a Channel 4 multi-episode drama) and supplementary industry interviews, we show how broadcast-era stability and platform-era precarity produce distinct, classed dispositions towards skill, authority and cultural value. We argue that audience-age seg…
Luma's Labor
While the emergence of the multispecies documentary has created new possibilities for representing animal consciousness on-screen, this article argues that these global developments must be understood within specific national contexts. Andrea Arnold's documentary Cow (UK, 2021) demonstrates how new realist techniques—evolved from Britain's social realist tradition and transformed by female filmmakers in the twenty-first century—offer distinctive …
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