Heather Nunn
Biographic Data
| ID | 831600 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heather Nunn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heather |
| FAMILY NAME | Nunn |
| SIGNATURE | NUNN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Roehampton |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Class and Contemporary British Culture
How does culture articulate, frame, organise and produce stories about social class and class difference? What do these stories tell us about contemporary models of success, failure, struggle and aspi
Urban gothic of the Second World War
Investing in the ‘Forever Home’
Home is where the heart is. You can get inside and slam the door. We dream of the big, beautiful, sensate commodity-to-live-in, the bathroom done in textures of stone and precious metals, a utopia of colourful décor. But the synaesthesia of being at home is always already afloat in the circuits of t
A trust betrayed
This article draws on psycho-social theories of emotional labour and the sociological concept of ‘emotion work’ in order to interrogate the affective communicative performances of celebrities, their deployment of a ready language of emotion and the broader therapeutic discourses from which this language is derived. It takes as its focus the emotional work undertaken by celebrities in order to limit or repair reputations damaged by scandal and to …
Reality TV
This book analyses new and hybrid genres of television including observational documentaries, talk shows, game shows, docu-soaps, dramatic reconstructions, law and order programming and 24/7 formats such as Big Brother and Survivor .
Emotional death
This essay will use current and historical advertisements by the British charity Barnardo’s to analyse the representation of abused children. In particular, it will focus on the 1999–2003 campaigns to explore the connection between the experience of trauma, death and the photographic image in the context of a first world, Western preoccupation with the spectre of the missing, lost or abused child. It will consider the complex attempt to photograp…
Video Justice
This article considers the relationship between media culture, surveillance, and the law. It argues that scopic technologies such as closed circuit television (CCTV), together with nonfiction “reality” television and reportage, are helping to produce new intersections between media and social space. This article maps some of these intersections. It also unpacks some of the important ethical and political questions raised by these new formations a…
Silent witness
Written on the body
(1996). Written on the body: An anatomy of horror, melancholy and love. Women: A Cultural Review: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 16-27
A trust betrayed
This article draws on psycho-social theories of emotional labour and the sociological concept of ‘emotion work’ in order to interrogate the affective communicative performances of celebrities, their deployment of a ready language of emotion and the broader therapeutic discourses from which this language is derived. It takes as its focus the emotional work undertaken by celebrities in order to limit or repair reputations damaged by scandal and to …
Silent witness
Video Justice
This article considers the relationship between media culture, surveillance, and the law. It argues that scopic technologies such as closed circuit television (CCTV), together with nonfiction “reality” television and reportage, are helping to produce new intersections between media and social space. This article maps some of these intersections. It also unpacks some of the important ethical and political questions raised by these new formations a…
Emotional death
This essay will use current and historical advertisements by the British charity Barnardo’s to analyse the representation of abused children. In particular, it will focus on the 1999–2003 campaigns to explore the connection between the experience of trauma, death and the photographic image in the context of a first world, Western preoccupation with the spectre of the missing, lost or abused child. It will consider the complex attempt to photograp…
Written on the body
(1996). Written on the body: An anatomy of horror, melancholy and love. Women: A Cultural Review: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 16-27
Written on the body
(1996). Written on the body: An anatomy of horror, melancholy and love. Women: A Cultural Review: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 16-27
Video Justice
This article considers the relationship between media culture, surveillance, and the law. It argues that scopic technologies such as closed circuit television (CCTV), together with nonfiction “reality” television and reportage, are helping to produce new intersections between media and social space. This article maps some of these intersections. It also unpacks some of the important ethical and political questions raised by these new formations a…
Silent witness
Emotional death
This essay will use current and historical advertisements by the British charity Barnardo’s to analyse the representation of abused children. In particular, it will focus on the 1999–2003 campaigns to explore the connection between the experience of trauma, death and the photographic image in the context of a first world, Western preoccupation with the spectre of the missing, lost or abused child. It will consider the complex attempt to photograp…
Reality TV
This book analyses new and hybrid genres of television including observational documentaries, talk shows, game shows, docu-soaps, dramatic reconstructions, law and order programming and 24/7 formats such as Big Brother and Survivor .
A trust betrayed
This article draws on psycho-social theories of emotional labour and the sociological concept of ‘emotion work’ in order to interrogate the affective communicative performances of celebrities, their deployment of a ready language of emotion and the broader therapeutic discourses from which this language is derived. It takes as its focus the emotional work undertaken by celebrities in order to limit or repair reputations damaged by scandal and to …
Investing in the ‘Forever Home’
Home is where the heart is. You can get inside and slam the door. We dream of the big, beautiful, sensate commodity-to-live-in, the bathroom done in textures of stone and precious metals, a utopia of colourful décor. But the synaesthesia of being at home is always already afloat in the circuits of t
Urban gothic of the Second World War
Class and Contemporary British Culture
How does culture articulate, frame, organise and produce stories about social class and class difference? What do these stories tell us about contemporary models of success, failure, struggle and aspi
History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (2 works)