Dr Laura Minor's Outputs (6)

Reclaiming Female Authorship in UK Television Comedy (2024)
Book
Minor, L. (2024). Reclaiming Female Authorship in UK Television Comedy. Edinburgh University Press

This book explores female authorship in UK television comedy, with a focus on British and Northern Irish writers/performers. More specifically, it examines comedy texts produced between 2010 and 2020, a period marked by a proliferation of female-cent... Read More about Reclaiming Female Authorship in UK Television Comedy.

Michaela Coel’s Chewing Gum: Redefining ‘Unruliness’ in London’s East End (2023)
Book Chapter
Minor, L. (2023). Michaela Coel’s Chewing Gum: Redefining ‘Unruliness’ in London’s East End. In M. Irwin, & J. Marshall (Eds.), UK and Irish Television Comedy: Nation, Region and Identity. Palgrave Macmillan

This chapter explores Michaela Coel and her original TV sitcom Chewing Gum (E4, 2015-) through two key concepts: 'unruliness' (Rowe, 1995) and 'intersectionality'. The argument established initially by Kathleen Rowe - that female comic performance is... Read More about Michaela Coel’s Chewing Gum: Redefining ‘Unruliness’ in London’s East End.

Alma’s (Not) Normal: Normalising Working-Class Women in/on BBC TV Comedy (2023)
Journal Article
Minor, L. (2023). Alma’s (Not) Normal: Normalising Working-Class Women in/on BBC TV Comedy. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 20(2), 137-161. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2023.0665

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 t... Read More about Alma’s (Not) Normal: Normalising Working-Class Women in/on BBC TV Comedy.

The ‘milf’: a brief cultural history, from Mrs Robinson to Stifler’s mom (2023)
Journal Article
Minor, L. (in press). The ‘milf’: a brief cultural history, from Mrs Robinson to Stifler’s mom

The release of reality television series Milf Manor in January 2023 has added to the pantheon of milfs (“Mothers I’d Like to Fuck”) on screen. But from Stacy’s mum to Stifler’s mum: why is our cultural fascination with and fetishisation of the milf s... Read More about The ‘milf’: a brief cultural history, from Mrs Robinson to Stifler’s mom.

‘U OK hun’? Classed femininities, meme culture and locating humour in the celebrity ‘hun’ (2022)
Journal Article
Minor, L. (2022). ‘U OK hun’? Classed femininities, meme culture and locating humour in the celebrity ‘hun’. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 26(6), 840-862. https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494221134344

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... Read More about ‘U OK hun’? Classed femininities, meme culture and locating humour in the celebrity ‘hun’.

Shameless television: gendering transnational narratives (2018)
Journal Article
Johnson, B., & Minor, L. (2018). Shameless television: gendering transnational narratives. Feminist Media Studies, 19(3), 364-379. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2018.1468795

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... Read More about Shameless television: gendering transnational narratives.