Media, Margins and Popular Culture

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction: Marginalised Voices, Representations and Practices

   1. Introduction: Marginalised Voices, Representations and Practices

      • Jenny Alexander, Heather Savigny, Einar Thorsen, Daniel Jackson

      Pages 1-12

3. Gender and Genre

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. No Small-Talk in Paradise: Why Elysium Fails the Bechdel Test, and Why We Should Care

      • Christa van Raalte

      Pages 15-27

   3. You Play Your Part: Older Women on Screen and in Production

      • Kirsten MacLeod

      Pages 28-40

4. Sexuality, Artistry and Self-Fashioning

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41

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   2. Marginally Male, Centre Stage and Spot-Lit: The (Gender) Trouble with Quentin Crisp

      • Mark J. Bendall

      Pages 43-56

   3. Registers of Performance: Negotiating the Professional, Personal and Intimate in Online Persona Creation

      • Kim Barbour

      Pages 57-69

   4. Artistic Tactics of the Everyday: Ideology Reframings in Gržinić and Šmid’s Practice

      • Katarzyna Kosmala

      Pages 70-86

5. Nation and Its ‘Others’

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87

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   2. Making Sense of Health Messages on HIV and AIDS in South African Women’s Magazines

      • Claudia van den Berg

      Pages 89-104

   3. ‘De Margin and De Centre’: Repositioning Race and Ethnicity in Diasporic European Cinema

      • Daniela Berghahn

      Pages 105-122

   4. Cinematic Narrative: The Construction of Dalit Identity in Bollywood

      • Vidushi

      Pages 123-135

6. Disability and Diversity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137

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   2. Dementia Care and Families: Care Decisions and Emotions in Popular Magazines

      • Sanna Inthorn, Julia Inthorn

      Pages 139-152

   3. Negotiating Doctor Who: Neurodiversity and Fandom

      • Leslie Manning

      Pages 153-165

7. Disciplinary Boundaries

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167

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   2. Tourists, Vandals and Pilgrims: A Study of Participant Responses to the Gromit Unleashed Public Art Trail in Bristol, 2013

      • Emma Pett

      Pages 169-187

   3. ‘I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere’?: The Holmes Franchise at the Centre and the Margins

      • Roberta Pearson

      Pages 188-201

   4. Censorship as Performance: A Case of Singapore Media Production

      • Siao Yuong Fong

      Pages 202-215

This collection brings together leading research on contemporary and popular culture, focussing on marginalised voices and representations; socially marginalised, marginalised in media and media scholarship. It spans five continents, with contributions on topics like gender, sexuality, nation, disability, disciplinary boundaries, youth and age.

• AIDS
• care
• emotion
• Europe
• Familie
• gender
• identity
• media
• Nation
• Online
• television

• Bournemouth University, UK

  Einar Thorsen, Heather Savigny, Jenny Alexander, Daniel Jackson

Kim Barbour, Deakin University, Australia Mark Bendall, University of Cambridge, UK Daniela Berghahn, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Siao Yuong Fong, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Sanna Inthorn, University of East Anglia, UK Julia Inthorn, University Medical Centre Göttingen, Germany Katarzyna Kosmala, University of the West of Scotland, UK Leslie Manning, College of the Albemarle, USA Kirsten MacLeod, Edinburgh Napier University, UK Brett Mills, University of East Anglia, UK Sarah Pedersen, Robert Gordon University, UK Emma Pett, University College, London, UK Tim Riley, Ravensbourne, UK Claudia van den Berg, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Christa van Raalte, Bournemouth University, UK Vidushi Vidz, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

Policies and ethics