All Outputs (11)

EDI film policies and their discontents (2025)
Book Chapter
Cobb, S., & Newsinger, J. (2025). EDI film policies and their discontents. In R. Cheung, J. Hill, N. Kawashima, & P. McDonald (Eds.), Global Film Policies: New Perspectives (130-147). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003171287-8

Using policy to increase equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in the film workforce is a relatively recent phenomenon. In the UK, it was not until 2000 that increasing workforce diversity was explicitly codified as a film policy aim. Since then, E... Read More about EDI film policies and their discontents.

Is television reformable? The ‘reformist tendency’ in inequality research in the cultural and creative industries (2024)
Journal Article
Newsinger, J., Kennedy, H., & Aust, R. (2024). Is television reformable? The ‘reformist tendency’ in inequality research in the cultural and creative industries. Media, Culture and Society, 46(7), 1503-1514. https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437241254331

This article engages with research on UK Television (UKTV) and the wider cultural and creative industries by interrogating the role of academic research in industrial and social change. We argue that a ‘reformist tendency’ implicitly structures much... Read More about Is television reformable? The ‘reformist tendency’ in inequality research in the cultural and creative industries.

Locked down and locked out: mothers and UKTV work during the COVID-19 pandemic (2023)
Journal Article
Wreyford, N., Newsinger, J., Kennedy, H., & Aust, R. (2024). Locked down and locked out: mothers and UKTV work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Feminist Media Studies, 24(8), 1894-1913. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2023.2266775

COVID-19 and the associated government lockdowns in the UK had dramatic impacts on the UK’s creative industries. This article explores these impacts on mothers working in UK Television (UKTV), on their ability to work, finances, and mental health. It... Read More about Locked down and locked out: mothers and UKTV work during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Communist International of Queer Films: The Radical Culture of the Beijing Queer Film Festival (2020)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (2020). The Communist International of Queer Films: The Radical Culture of the Beijing Queer Film Festival. In S. Presence, M. Wayne, & J. Newsinger (Eds.), Contemporary Radical Film Culture: Networks, Organisation and Activists (190-202). Routledge

This chapter addresses the Euro-American-centrism in the study of radical film cultures by examining cinematic and political practices in a non-Western context. It shifts radical film research’s traditional emphasis on class to an intersectional appr... Read More about The Communist International of Queer Films: The Radical Culture of the Beijing Queer Film Festival.

Explicit and implicit diversity policy in the UK film and television industries (2019)
Journal Article
Newsinger, J., & Eikhof, D. (2020). Explicit and implicit diversity policy in the UK film and television industries. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 17(1), 47-69. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2020.0507

This article adapts Jeremy Ahearne's (2009) conception of explicit and implicit cultural policy for a novel analysis of contemporary diversity policy in the British film and television industries. It demonstrates how distinguishing explicit and impli... Read More about Explicit and implicit diversity policy in the UK film and television industries.

Performative resilience: How the arts and culture support austerity in post-crisis capitalism (2019)
Journal Article
Newsinger, J., & Serafini, P. (2021). Performative resilience: How the arts and culture support austerity in post-crisis capitalism. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 24(2), 589-605. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549419886038

Resilience is a key theme in contemporary post-crisis capitalism, prominent across government policy, popular discourses, business and management thinking and academia. This article is about the deployment of the concept of resilience in cultural pol... Read More about Performative resilience: How the arts and culture support austerity in post-crisis capitalism.

And … action?: gender, knowledge and inequalities in the UK screen industries (2018)
Journal Article
Ruth Eikhof, D., Newsinger, J., Luchinskaya, D., & Rudloff, D. (2019). And … action?: gender, knowledge and inequalities in the UK screen industries. Gender, Work and Organization, 26(6), 840-859. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12318

This article explores how a knowledge ecology framework can help us better understand the production of gender knowledge, especially in relation to improving gender equality. Drawing on Law et al. (2011), it analyses what knowledge of gender inequali... Read More about And … action?: gender, knowledge and inequalities in the UK screen industries.

United Kingdom: film funding, the "corporate welfare system" and its discontents (2018)
Book Chapter
Newsinger, J., & Prescence, S. (2018). United Kingdom: film funding, the "corporate welfare system" and its discontents. In P. Murschetz, R. Teichmann, & M. Karmasin (Eds.), Handbook of State Aid for Film: Finance, Industries and Regulation (447-462). Springer Publishing Company

The infrapolitics of cultural value: cultural policy, evaluation and the marginalisation of practitioner perspectives (2016)
Journal Article
Green, W., & Newsinger, J. (2016). The infrapolitics of cultural value: cultural policy, evaluation and the marginalisation of practitioner perspectives. Journal of Cultural Economy, 9(4), 382-395. https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2016.1141791

This article is about the politics of cultural value. It focusses on the representations of value that exist in the epistemologies and methodologies of cultural impact evaluation and the discrepancies between these official discourses and the discour... Read More about The infrapolitics of cultural value: cultural policy, evaluation and the marginalisation of practitioner perspectives.

Arts policy and practice for disabled children and young people: towards a ‘practice spectrum’ approach (2016)
Journal Article
Newsinger, J., & Green, W. (2016). Arts policy and practice for disabled children and young people: towards a ‘practice spectrum’ approach. Disability and Society, 31(3), 357-372. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2016.1174102

This article argues for an approach to the evaluation of arts policy and practice for disabled children and young people that goes beyond the dialogic antagonism between Disability Arts and community arts, and towards a ‘practice spectrum’. Little is... Read More about Arts policy and practice for disabled children and young people: towards a ‘practice spectrum’ approach.

A cultural shock doctrine? Austerity, the neoliberal state and the creative industries discourse (2014)
Journal Article
Newsinger, J. (2015). A cultural shock doctrine? Austerity, the neoliberal state and the creative industries discourse. Media, Culture and Society, 37(2), 302-313. https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443714560134

A number of writers have made the argument that the development creative industries policy discourse in the United Kingdom and elsewhere represents the articulation of a politics that is neoliberal in character. The marginalisation of Blairism in the... Read More about A cultural shock doctrine? Austerity, the neoliberal state and the creative industries discourse.