The Wedding Spectacle Across Contemporary Media and Culture: Something Old, Something New

About

Jilly Boyce Kay is Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Leicester. Her forthcoming book Gender Media and Voice focusses on the mediation of womens voices and the concept of communicative injustice. She has also published on mediated feminist anger newspaper representations of the womens suffrage movement in Britain and Ireland reality television and womens television histories. She is Editor of the Cultural Commons section in the European Journal of Cultural Studies. Melanie Kennedy is Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Leicester. She is the author of Tweenhood: Femininity and Celebrity in Tween Popular Culture. Her research examines media representations of gendered age-defined classed raced identities (in particular tweens young female celebrities and teenage mothers) and the popular culture that addresses these subjects. She is the Associate Editor of Commentary and Criticism for Feminist Media Studies (Routledge).Helen Wood is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at at Lancaster University. She has published widely on television class and audiences including the books Talking with Television and Reacting to Reality Television and the edited volume Television for Women: New Directions (Routledge 2012). She is also Editor of the European Journal of Cultural Studies.