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Books by Deborah Jermyn
  | | Nancy Meyers (The Bloomsbury Companions to Contemporary Filmmakers) by Deborah Jermyn, Scott Wilson Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2019 by Bloomsbury Academic ISBN-13: 978-1-5013-5890-6, ISBN: 1-5013-5890-1 "Nancy Meyers is acknowledged as the most commercially successful woman filmmaker of all time, described by Daphne Merkin in The New York Times on the release of It's Complicated as "a singular figure in Hollywood – [she] may, in fact, be the most powerful female writer-director-producer currently working". Yet Meyers remains a director who, alongside being widely dismissed by critics, has been largely absent in scholarly accounts both o ..." |
 | | Women, Celebrity and Cultures of Ageing(1st Edition) Freeze Frame by Deborah Jermyn, Susan Holmes, J. Gwynfor Jones Paperback, 203 Pages, Published 2016 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-1-349-58090-3, ISBN: 1-349-58090-2 "This book studies the relationship between women, ageing and celebrity. Focusing on an array of case studies and star/celebrity images, it aims to examine the powerful, contradictory and sometimes celebratory ways in which celebrity culture offers a crucial site for the contemporary and historical construction of discourses on ageing femininities." |
 | | Love Across the Atlantic Us-UK Romance in Popular Culture (Paperback) by Barbara Brickman, Deborah Jermyn, Theodore Trost Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2021 by Edinburgh University Press, United Kingdom ISBN-13: 978-1-4744-5208-3, ISBN: 1-4744-5208-6 "From romantic novelist Elinor Glyn in the 1920s to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle today, this collection examines some of the history, contemporary manifestations and enduring appeal of US-UK romance across popular culture." |
 | | Sex and the City (TV Milestones Series) by Deborah Jermyn Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2009 by Wayne State University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8143-3288-7, ISBN: 0-8143-3288-9 "With its bold depiction of four female friends navigating the pitfalls of Manhattan's dating scene, Sex and the City, which aired on HBO from 1998 to 2004, was a unique television drama that evolved into a ubiquitous and widely debated cultural phenomenon. Deborah Jermyn's Sex and the City investigates the program's critical and popular success as well as its lasting cultural impact. To give readers a complete picture of Sex and the Cit ..." |
 | | Crime Watching Investigating Real Crime TV by Deborah Jermyn Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2006 by I.B.Tauris ISBN-13: 978-1-84511-239-4, ISBN: 1-84511-239-3 "In recent years, reality TV formats have proliferated on television. One of the most significant and controversial strands within this has been the growth of 'real crime TV'. Encapsulating everything from crime appeal shows to reconstruction programmes and actuality footage shows, real crime TV now plays a major role in our television schedules, filling countless hours of air-time every week. "Crime Watching" examines the spectacular gr ..." |
 | | Falling in Love Again(8th Edition) Romantic Comedy in Contemporary Cinema by Stacey Abbott, Deborah Jermyn, I.B.Tauris Paperback, 248 Pages, Published 2009 by I.B.Tauris ISBN-13: 978-1-84511-771-9, ISBN: 1-84511-771-9 "The ultimate guide to contemporary romantic comedy, Falling in Love Again offers a timely new assessment of this hugely popular phenomenon. Romantic comedy has long been a mainstay of the movies, from the classic screwballs of the 1930s, through to Woody Allen's ""nervous comedies"" of the 1970s and the current great Hollywood revival, with modern classics such as Maid in Manhattan and Lost in Translation. Yet rom-coms have often strugg ..." |
 | | The Cinema of Kathryn Bigelow Hollywood Transgressor (Directors' Cuts) by Deborah Jermyn, Sean Redmond, Jermyn/Redmond Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2003 by Wallflower Press ISBN-13: 978-1-903364-42-0, ISBN: 1-903364-42-6 "Kathryn Bigelow has undoubtedly been one of Hollywood's most significant female filmmakers, well known in popular terms for films such as "Point Break" and "Blue Steel", yet she remains relatively unexplored in academia. Soundbites about women and guns and speculation about the role of ex-husband James Cameron ("Aliens", "Titanic") in her career have often helped obscure rather than elucidate an understanding of her work and reputation. ..." |
 | | Prime Suspect (BFI TV Classics) by Deborah Jermyn Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2010 by British Film Institute ISBN-13: 978-1-84457-305-9, ISBN: 1-84457-305-2 "April 7 1991 saw the broadcast of the first instalment of Prime Suspect, a new crime series by screenwriter Lynda La Plante, starring Helen Mirren as DCI Jane Tennison. The drama focused on the desperate efforts of the Metropolitan Police to catch and convict a serial killer targeting women in a series of particularly gruesome attacks, while Tennison battles male colleagues who resent her taking charge of the case. Over seven series, Pr ..." |
 | | Women, Celebrity and Cultures of Ageing(1st Edition) Freeze Frame by Deborah Jermyn, Susan Holmes, J. Gwynfor Jones Hardcover, 203 Pages, Published 2015 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-1-137-49511-2, ISBN: 1-137-49511-1 "Women, Celebrity and Cultures of Ageing interrogates the relationship between women, ageing and celebrity, examining how celebrity culture plays a crucial role in mapping out the social and cultural meanings of 'older' and ageing women. Indeed, with the corporeality of female celebrities being surveilled and scrutinised by popular media forms on a daily basis, celebrity culture now serves a key function in shoring up 'appropriate' and ' ..." |
 | | The Audience Studies Reader(1st Edition) by Will Brooker, Deborah Jermyn Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2002 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-25434-2, ISBN: 0-415-25434-5 "The Audience Studies Reader brings together key writings exploring questions of reception and interpretation, reprinting forgotten pieces and combining key essays with new research. Beginning with a general introduction to the Reader, each extract is placed in its historical context with specially written section prefaces and suggestions for further reading.Organized chronologically and thematically, sections address: the paradigm shif ..." |
 | | Nancy Meyers (The Bloomsbury Companions to Contemporary Filmmakers) by Deborah Jermyn, Scott Wilson Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2017 by Bloomsbury Academic Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-1-62892-174-8, ISBN: 1-62892-174-9 "Nancy Meyers is acknowledged as the most commercially successful woman filmmaker of all time, described by Daphne Merkin in The New York Times on the release of It's Complicated as "a singular figure in Hollywood – [she] may, in fact, be the most powerful female writer-director-producer currently working". Yet Meyers remains a director who, alongside being being widely dismissed by critics, has been largely absent in scholarly accounts ..." |
 | | Love Across the Atlantic US-UK Romance in Popular Culture by Barbara Jane Brickman, Deborah Jermyn, Theodore Louis Trost Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2020 by Edinburgh University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4744-5207-6, ISBN: 1-4744-5207-8 "Winston Churchill famously described the political alliance between the US and UK as a 'special relationship', but throughout the cultural history of these two countries there have existed transatlantic 'special relationships' of another kind - affairs between British and American citizens who have fallen in love, with one another but often too with the idea(l) of that other place across the ocean. From romantic novelist Elinor Glyn in ..." |
 | | Understanding Reality Television(1st Edition) by Su Holmes, Deborah Jermyn, Doborah Jermyn, Susan Holmes, Deborah. Jernmyn, Holmes/Jermyn Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2003 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-31795-5, ISBN: 0-415-31795-9 ""Reality TV" has rapidly come to occupy a place at the forefront of contemporary television culture on an international scale. This collection responds to this shift by analyzing the terrain of this genre--its range of economic, technological and cultural implications for our understanding of television as both an object of study and a contemporary cultural form. Recognizing how definitions of Reality TV are contentious, the collection ..." |
 | | The Cinema of Kathryn Bigelow Hollywood Transgressor (Directors' Cuts) by Deborah Jermyn, Sean Redmond Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2003 by Wallflower Press ISBN-13: 978-1-903364-43-7, ISBN: 1-903364-43-4 "Kathryn Bigelow has undoubtedly been one of Hollywood's most significant female players, well known in popular terms for films such as "Point Break" and "Blue Steel," yet relatively unexplored in academia. Soundbites about women and guns and speculation about the role of ex-husband James Cameron ( "Aliens, Titanic") in her career have often helped obscure rather than elucidate an understanding of her work. This collection explores how B ..." |
 | | Female Celebrity and Ageing(1st Edition) Back in the Spotlight by Deborah Jermyn Hardcover, 152 Pages, Published 2013 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-83236-6, ISBN: 0-415-83236-5 "Female Celebrity and Ageing: Back in the Spotlight interrogates the myriad ways in which celebrity culture constructs highly visible ideologies of femininity and ageing, and how ageing female celebrities have negotiated the media in a variety of industrial, historical and national contexts. In the era when the ‘baby boomers’ have started drawing their pensions, the boundaries of what constitutes ‘old age’ have never seemed more fluid, a ..." |
 | | The Audience Studies Reader(1st Edition) by Will Brooker, Deborah Jermyn Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2002 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-25435-9, ISBN: 0-415-25435-3 "The Audience Studies Reader brings together key writings exploring questions of reception and interpretation, reprinting forgotten pieces and combining key essays with new research. Beginning with a general introduction to the Reader, each extract is placed in its historical context with specially written section prefaces and suggestions for further reading.Organized chronologically and thematically, sections address: the paradigm shif ..." |
 | | UNDERSTANDING REALITY TELEVISION(1st Edition) by Deborah Jermyn, Su Holmes, Professor Deborah Jermyn Hardcover, 316 Pages, Published 2004 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-31794-8, ISBN: 0-415-31794-0 "'Popular Factual Programming' has rapidly come to occupy a place at the forefront of contemporary television culture on an international scale. Tracing the history of reality TV from Candid Camera to The Osbournes, Understanding Reality Television examines a range of programmes which claim to depict 'real life', from reality formatted game shows to 'real crime' programming and make-over TV. Contributors discuss the phenonenon of reality ..." |
 | | Falling in Love Again Romantic Comedy in Contemporary Cinema by Stacey Abbott, Deborah Jermyn ISBN-13: 978-1-4416-2890-9, ISBN: 1-4416-2890-8 |
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