Dr Frances Bonner

School of English, Media Studies and Art History, The University of Queensland

International Linkages

Member, the International Association for Mass Communication Research Working Group on Popular Culture

Australian representative of the (UK) Association for Research in Popular Fictions

External consultant on the Open University's course DA204 "Understanding Media"

Publications

Books

Frances Bonner Ordinary Television London: Sage 2003

Graeme Turner, Frances Bonner & P. David Marshall Fame Games: The Production of Celebrity in Australia Cambridge University Press, 2000

Chapters in Books

Frances Bonner "The Media Industries: Magazines" in Stuart Cunningham and Graeme Turner eds The Media in Australia: Industries, Texts, Audiences (3rd Edition) Allen and Unwin, St Leonards, NSW 2002

Frances Bonner & Susan McKay "Politicising Breast Cancer" in Hannelore Best & Eileen T. Sellers eds. International Images of Health: Perspectives, Power and Practice University of Ballarat, 2000

Frances Bonner "Lifestyle television: No choice but to choose" in Graeme Turner & Stuart Cunningham eds The Australian TV Book Allen & Unwin, 2000

Refereed Articles

Bonner, F., & McKay, S. (2003), "Magazine Features and Infotainment Values", Media International Australia, no. 107, May, pp.117-33.

Susan McKay & Frances Bonner "Evaluating Illness: Health Narratives in Women's Magazines", Journal of Language and Social Psychology 21.1 March 2002 53-67

Frances Bonner & Susan McKay "Reporting Childhood Illness in Australian Mass-market Women's Magazines Australian Journal of Communication 29.1 2002 pp53-66

Frances Bonner & Susan McKay "Challenges, Determination and Triumphs: Inspirational Discourse in Women's Magazine Health Stories" Continuum 14.2 2000. 133-144

Susan McKay & Frances Bonner "Telling Stories: Breast Cancer Pathographies in Australian Women's Magazines", Women's Studies International Forum 22.5, 1999 563-572

Frances Bonner, Rebecca Farley, David Marshall and Graeme Turner "Celebrity and the Media" Australian Journal of Communication 26.1, 1999. 55-70

Current Research Interests

non-fiction television & its presenters

celebrity

mass market magazines