Professor Graeme Turner
Director, Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, The University of Queensland
Current ARC Projects
1997 The production of celebrity in the Australian media
1999 A Cultural History of Current Affairs Programming on Australian Television
2003 Talkback radio in Australia: Content, audience and influence
International Linkages
Graeme Turner is one of two Australian-based participants in the Urban Imaginaries research network, convened by the Kwan Fong Cultural Research and Development Program of Lingnan University, Hong Kong and the HRC, at ANU.
External examiner for the Cultural Studies degree program at Lingnan
Visiting Professor, Media and Cultural Studies Centre, University of Sunderland, UK
In negotiations with Professor Tony Bennett, co-director of ESRC Research Centre for Socio-Cultural Change (Open University and Manchester University, UK), in developing joint projects with a view to establishing an international cultural research network.
Publications
Professor Turner's work is used in many disciplines—cultural and media studies, communications, history, literary studies, and film and television studies—and it has been translated into Mandarin, Thai, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, German, and Slovenian.
Books
Graeme Turner. Understanding Celebrity. London: Sage, 2004 (forthcoming).
Graeme Turner. British Cultural Studies: An Introduction, 3rd edition. Routledge, London and New York, 2003.
Graeme Turner, Frances Bonner and P.David Marshall, Fame Games: The Production of Celebrity in Australia (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000)
Graeme Turner. Film as Social Practice. 3rd Ed. London: Routledge, 1999.
Edited Books
Graeme Turner (ed.) The Film Cultures Reader, Routledge, London and New York, 2002.
Stuart Cunningham and Graeme Turner, (eds.) The Media and Communications in Australia, Allen and Unwin, St Leonards, 2002
Graeme Turner and Stuart Cunningham (eds.) The Australian TV Book (St. Leonards, N.S.W.: Allen and Unwin, 2000)
Chapters in Books
'Ethics, Entertainment and the Tabloid: The case of talkback radio in Australia' in C.Lumby and E.Probyn (eds.), Remote Control: New Media, New Ethics, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2003, pp.87-99.
Graeme Turner, 'Editor's Introduction', in Graeme Turner (ed.) The Film Cultures Reader, Routledge, London and New York, 2002, pp. 1-10..
Graeme Turner and Stuart Cunningham 'The media and communications in Australia today', in Stuart Cunningham and Graeme Turner (eds.) The Media and Communications in Australia, Allen and Unwin, St Leonards, 2002, pp.3-22
Graeme Turner and Toby Miller, 'Radio' in Stuart Cunningham and Graeme Turner, The Media and Communications in Australia, Allen and Unwin, St Leonards, 2002, pp. 133-151.
'Australasia' in Toby Miller (ed) A Companion to Cultural Studies, Blackwell, Malden, Mass. and Oxford, 2001, pp. 246-258.
Graeme Turner, "Genre, Format and 'Live' Television" in Glen Creeber (ed.) The Television Genre Book, London: BFI, 2001.
Graeme Turner, "Genre, Hybridity and Mutations" in Glen Creeber (ed.) The Television Genre Book, London: BFI, 2001.
'Reshaping Australian Institutions: Popular culture, the market and the public sphere' in Tony Bennett and David Carter (eds.) Culture in Australia: Policies, publics and programs, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2001, pp. 161-175.
'Sold Out: Recent shifts in television news and current affairs in Australia' in M.Bromley (ed.) No News is Bad News: Radio, television and the public, Longmans, Harlow, 2001, pp. 46-58.
Graeme Turner, 'Public Relations' in Stuart Cunningham and Graeme Turner, The Media and Communications in Australia, Allen and Unwin, St Leonards, 2002, pp. 217-225
'Studying Television' in Turner and Cunningham (eds.) The Australian TV Book (St. Leonards, N.S.W.: Allen and Unwin, 2000)
'Television news and current affairs: Welcome to Frontline' in The Australian TV Book. (St. Leonards, N.S.W.: Allen and Unwin, 2000)
Graeme Turner, "Australian Literature and the Public Sphere," in Alison Bartlett, Robert Dixon and Christopher Lee (eds). Australian Literature and the Public Sphere: Refereed Proceedings of the 1998 Conference, Association for the Study of Australian Literature , Toowoomba, 1999.
"Australian Popular Music and Everyday Life" in Gerry Bloustein (ed.) Musical Visions: Selected Proceedings for the 6th National Australian/New Zealand IASPM and Inaugural Arnhem Land Performance Conference, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 1999.
"Making it National Reconsidered: The Uses of Nationalism in Contemporary Australia", in Adi Wimmer (ed.) Australian Nationalism Reconsidered: Maintaining a Monocultural tradition in a Multicultural Society, Tubingen: Stauffenberg Verlag, 1999.
"Cultural Studies and Film," in John Hill and Pamela Church Gibson (eds) The Oxford Guide to Film Studies, Oxford, Oxford UP, 1998.
"Film, Television and Literature: Competing for the Nation," in Bruce Bennett and Jennifer Strauss (eds) The Oxford Literary History of Australia, Melbourne: Oxford UP, 1998.
"Media and Communication Studies," in the Australian Academy of the Humanities, Knowing Ourselves and Others: The Humanities in Australia into the 21st Century, Vol. 2 National Board of Employment, Education and Training, Canberra, 1998.
Refereed Articles
"After Hybridity: Muslim-Australians and the Imagined Community", Continuum, (2003) 17:4.
"Ethics of research involving humans: uniform processes for disparate categories?" (with M.Parker, J.Holt, and J.Broerse), Monash Bioethics Review, Vol.22, No. 3. July, 2003. pp.50-65.
"Popularising Politics: This Day Tonight and Australian Television Current Affairs", Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy, No.106, February, 2003, pp. 137-150.
"Ethics, entertainment and the tabloid: the case of talkback radio in Australia", Continuum, 15:3 (2001), pp.349-359.
"Television and Cultural Studies: Unfinished business", International Journal of Cultural Studies 4:4 (2001), pp. 371-384
'"Media Wars": Journalism, Cultural and Media Studies in Australia', Journalism, 1:3 (2000), pp.353-365
'Talkback, advertising and journalism: A cautionary tale of self-regulated commercial radio', International Journal of Cultural Studies, 3:2 (2000), pp. 247-255.
"Celebrity and the Media", (with Frances Bonner, David Marshall and Rebecca Farley), Australian Journal of Communication 26.1 (1999): 55-70.
"Tabloidisation, Journalism and the Possibility of Critique", International Journal of Cultural Studies 2.1 (1999): 59-76.
Current Research Interests
talkback radio in Australia
television news and current affairs in Australia
celebrity
nation, globalisation and belonging