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Alan McKee Alan McKee i(A102444 works by)
Born: Established: ca. 1972 ;
Gender: Male
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1 This Is Your Life Johanna Dore , Alan McKee , 2014 single work companion entry
— Appears in: A Companion to the Australian Media : T 2014; (p. 472)
1 Pro-Am Curators of Australian Television History : How is Their Practice Different from That of Professional Television Historians Alan McKee , Johanna Dore , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Journal of Popular Culture , vol. 3 no. 2 2014; (p. 159-171)
1 y separately published work icon Beautiful Things in Popular Culture Alan McKee (editor), Carlton : Blackwell , 2007 Z1353103 2007 anthology criticism
1 Interview with Kate Orman : Dr Who Author Alan McKee (interviewer), 2005 single work interview
— Appears in: Continuum : Journal of Media and Cultural Studies , vol. 19 no. 1 2005; (p. 127-139)
1 y separately published work icon Australian Television : A Geneology of Great Moments Alan McKee , South Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 2001 Z1632922 2001 single work criticism (taught in 1 units)

Alan McKee examines some key moments in Australian television history, drawing on extensive contemporary evidence as well as presenting detailed analysis of the programs themselves.


1 y separately published work icon Australian Television : A Genealogy of Great Moments Alan McKee , South Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 2001 10504917 2001 multi chapter work criticism
1 Marking the Liminal for True Blue Aussies: The Generic Placement of Aboriginality in Australian Soap Opera Alan McKee , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Journal of Communication , vol. 24 no. 1 1997; (p. 42-57)
'This paper addresses a previously unconsidered history-that of Aboriginal characters in Australian soap opera. Rejecting critical approaches that have obtained even into the 1990s, it refuses to judge these characters as 'good' or 'bad' manifestations ofindigeneity. Rather, using the idea that genre is a way of closing down interpretive possibilities, the paper looks at the manner in which generic expectations around soap opera produce particular valences for these representations of Aboriginality. It points to the many ways in which these indigenous characters are insistently constructed as liminal in soap opera's structural commu· nities-simultaneously inside and outside of the group. And it accords with Jakubowicz's (1994) suggestions about the ways in which Aboriginal people are positioned by wider social discourses' (Author's abstract).
1 'Superboong!...' : The Ambivalence of Comedy and Differing Histories of Race Alan McKee , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: Continuum : Journal of Media & Cultural Studies , vol. 10 no. 2 1996; (p. 44-57)
2 5 y separately published work icon Continuum : Journal of Media and Cultural Studies Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture Tom O'Regan (editor), Brian Shoesmith (editor), Alec McHoul (editor), Toby Miller (editor), Robyn Quin (editor), David McKie (editor), Alan McKee (editor), Ian Hutchinson (editor), Michael O'Shaughnessy (editor), Hilaire Natt (editor), Greg Noble (editor), Panizza Allmark (editor), Mark Gibson (editor), Z1778186 1987 periodical (64 issues) (taught in 3 units)

Continuum began as a joint initiative between Tom O'Regan at Murdoch University and Brian Shoesmith at Edith Cowan University, Perth. From 1991-5 it was wholly located in the Centre for Research in Culture and Communication at Murdoch University. From mid-1995 it was located in the Department of Media Studies at Edith Cowan University.

Continuum is a thematically based cultural studies journal. The primary focus of the journal is upon screen media, but it also includes publishing, broadcasting and public exhibitionary media such as museums and sites. Journal editors are particularly interested in (1) the history and practice of screen media in Australasia and Asia ; (2) the connections between such media (particularly between film, TV, publishing, visual arts and exhibitionary sites). Each issue is devoted to the exploration of a particular cultural site. Sites have included Indigenous media, television, Asian cinema, media discourse, film style, publishing, photography, radio, 'Screening Cultural Studies', electronic arts in Australia and 'Critical Multiculturalism'. The journal is committed to articulating the energies, fragmentations, and loose coalitions that attend such cultural sites.

(Source : Continuum)

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