Dr Frances Bonner
Honorary Associate Professor
School of Communication and Arts
+61 7 336 53201
Publications
Books
Bonner, Frances (2011). Personality presenters: Television's intermediaries with viewers. Surrey, England: Ashgate. doi: 10.4324/9781315600178
Bonner, Frances J. (2003). Ordinary television: Analyzing popular TV. 1 ed. London, UK: Sage. doi: 10.4135/9781446221716
Turner, G., Bonner, F. J. and Marshall, P. D. (2000). Fame Games: The Production of Celebrity in Australia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Book Chapters
Bonner, Frances (2014). Game shows. A companion to the Australian media. (pp. 188-189) edited by Bridget Griffen-Foley. Kew, VIC, Australia: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
Bonner, Frances (2014). Lifestyle television. A companion to the Australian media. (pp. 243-244) edited by Bridget Griffen-Foley. Kew, VIC, Australia: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
Bonner, Frances (2014). Women's magazines. A companion to the Australian media. (pp. 498-500) edited by Bridget Griffen-Foley. Kew, VIC, Australia: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
Bonner, Frances (2014). Magazines. The Media & Communications in Australia. (pp. 193-208) edited by Stuart Cunningham and Sue Turnbull. Crows Nest, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin.
Bonner, Frances (2013). Recording reality: documentary film and television. Representation. (pp. 60-99) edited by Stuart Hall, Jessie Evans and Sean Nixon. London, United Kingdom: Sage.
Bonner, Frances (2013). Gaudy nights: dance and reality television's display of talent. Television aesthetics and style. (pp. 251-267) edited by Jason Jacobs and Steven Peacock. New York, NY, United States: Bloomsbury Academic.
Bonner, Frances (2012). My favourite things: Spin-off products and television memories. Remembering television. Histories, technologies, memories. (pp. 173-191) edited by Kate Darian-Smith and Sue Turnbull. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Bonner, Frances (2011). Lifestyle television: Gardening and the good life. Ethical consumption: A critical introduction. (pp. 231-243) edited by Tania Lewis and Emily Potter. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, U.K.: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203867785
Bonner, Frances and du Gay, Paul (2010). Representing the enterprising self : Thirtysomething and contemporary consumer culture. Cultural theory. (pp. 49-70) edited by David Oswell. London: Sage.
Bonner, Frances and McKay, Susan (2010). Slawa i zdrowie w australijskich czasopismach kobiecych. Świat (z) kolorowych czasopism: Prasa dla kobiet i dziewczyn w perspektywie interdyscyplinarnej.. (pp. 247-255) edited by Edyty Zierkiewicz. Wrocław, Poland: Oficyna Wydawnicza ATUT: Wrocławskie Wydawnictwo Oświatowe (Publishing House TRUMP - Educational Publishing House).
Bonner, Frances (2010). Magazines. The media and communications in Australia. (pp. 173-188) edited by Stuart Cunningham and Graeme Turner. Crows Nest, N.S.W, Australia: Allen & Unwin.
Turner, Graeme, Bonner, Frances and Marshall, P. D. (2008). The meaning and significance of celebrity. The tabloid culture reader. (pp. 141-148) edited by Anita Biressi and Heather Nunn. Maidenhead, United Kingdom; New York, United States of America: Open University Press.
Bonner, Frances (2008). Ordinary television. The Television Genre Book. (pp. 175-176) edited by Glen Greeber. England: BFI Palgrave Macmillan.
Bonner, Frances (2008). Digging for difference: British and Australian television gardening programmes. Exposing Lifestyle Television: The Big Reveal. (pp. 25-38) edited by Gareth Palmer. Hampshire, U.K.: Ashgate Publishing.
Bonner, F J (2006). Magazines. The media and communications in Australia. (pp. 193-208) edited by S. Cunningham and G. Turner. Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin.
Turner, Graeme, Bonner, Frances and Marshall, P. David (2006). Producing celebrity. The Celebrity Culture Reader. (pp. 770-798) edited by P. D. Marshall. New York: Routledge.
Bonner, F. J. (2006). Television: Language. Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics. (pp. 548-554) edited by K. Brown. UK: Elsevier Ltd. doi: 10.1016/b0-08-044854-2/00713-6
Bonner, Frances (2005). Looking inside: Showing medical operations on ordinary television. The Spectacle of the Real: From Hollywood to 'Reality' TV and Beyond. (pp. 105-115) Intellect Ltd..
Bonner, Frances (2005). Whose lifestyle is it anyway?. Ordinary lifestyles: Popular media, consumption and taste. (pp. 35-46) edited by D. Bell and J. Hollows. Maidenhead, England: Open University Press.
Bonner, F. J. (2005). The celebrity in the text. Understanding Media: Inside Celebrity. (pp. 57-96) edited by J. Evans and D. Hesmondhaigh. Maindenhead, England: Open University Press.
Bonner, F. J. (2005). Looking inside: Showing medical operations on ordinary television. The Spectacle of the Real: From Hollywood to Reality TV and Beyond. (pp. 105-116) edited by G. King. Bristol, UK: Intellect.
Bonner, F. J. (2002). Magazines. The Media & Communications in Australia. (pp. 188-199) edited by S. Cunningham and G. Turner. Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin.
Bonner, F. J. (2000). Lifestyle programs -- no choice but to choose. The Australian TV Book. (pp. 103-116) edited by Graeme Turner and Stuart Cunningham. St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin.
Bonner, F. J. and McKay, S. B. (2000). Politicising breast cancer. International Images of Health: Perspectives, Power & Practice. (pp. 61-68) edited by Hannelore Best and Eileen Sellers. Ballarat: University of Ballarat.
Bonner, Frances (1994). Representations of the Female Cook. Coastscripts: Gender Representations in the Arts. (pp. 63-71) Griffith University: AIWRAP.
Bonner, Frances (1992). Towards a better way of being: feminist science fiction. Imagining women: Cultural representations and gender. (pp. 94-102) edited by Frances Bonner, Lizbeth Goodman, Richard Allen, Linda Janes and Catherine King. Cambridge, England, United Kingdom: Polity Press.
Bonner, Frances (1992). Confession time: women and game shows. Imagining women: Cultural representations and gender. (pp. 237-249) edited by Frances Bonner, Lizbeth Goodman, Richard Allen, Linda Janes and Catherine King. Cambridge, England, United Kingdom: Polity Press.
Frances Bonner (1984). Women and the new media. All her labours: embroidering the framework. (pp. 32-45) edited by Women and Labour Publications Collective. Sydney, Australia: Hale and Iremonger.
Journal Articles
Cochrane, Bernadette and Bonner, Frances (2022). Adjacent to the live: paratextual augmentation of performance during the pandemic. Body, Space and Technology, 21 (1). doi: 10.16995/bst.8005
Bonner, Frances (2020). A circumscribed (natural) history: British television celebrates David Attenborough. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 40 (4), 1-20. doi: 10.1080/01439685.2020.1730561
Bonner, Frances and Grant-Frost, Rowena (2019). The unusual persistence of a docudrama: Blue Murder and the bodies too many. Studies in Documentary Film, 13 (2), 127-140. doi: 10.1080/17503280.2019.1609647
Bonner, Frances and Jacobs, Jason (2017). The persistence of television: the case of The Good Life. Critical Studies in Television, 12 (1), 6-20. doi: 10.1177/1749602016682751
Bonner, Frances (2015). The mediated Asian-Australian food identity: from Charmaine Solomon to Masterchef Australia. Media International Australia, 157 (157), 103-113. doi: 10.1177/1329878x1515700113
Bonner, Frances (2015). Kylie will be ok On the (im-)possibility of Australian celebrity studies. Cultural studies, 29 (4), 527-545. doi: 10.1080/09502386.2014.1000606
Bonner, Frances (2015). Alex Prager NGV International, Melbourne 14 November 2014 - 19 April 2015. Eyeline (83), 81-81.
Cochrane, Bernadette and Bonner, Frances (2014). Screening from the Met, the NT, or the House: what changes with the live relay. Adaptation, 7 (2), 121-133. doi: 10.1093/adaptation/apu015
Bonner, Frances (2014). Kerry Tribe'There will be____'. Eyeline: Contemporary Visual Arts (81), 42-45.
Bonner, Frances (2013). Celebrity, work and the reality-talent show: Strictly Come Dancing/Dancing with the Stars. Celebrity Studies, 4 (2), 169-181. doi: 10.1080/19392397.2013.791038
Bonner, Frances (2013). Polly Borland: everything I want to be when I grow up. University of Queensland Art Museum: Brisbane 1 September - 25 November 2012. Eyeline Contemporary Visual Arts, 78/79.
Bonner, Frances and Jacobs, Jason (2011). The first encounter: Observations on the chronology of encounter with some adaptations of Lewis Carroll's Alice books. Convergence, 17 (1), 37-48. doi: 10.1177/1354856510383361
Bonner, Frances (2010). Talking with television: Women, talk shows and modern self-reflexivity. Screen, 51 (2), 173-176. doi: 10.1093/screen/hjq004
Bonner, Frances (2010). Top Gear: Why does the world’s most popular programme not deserve scrutiny?. Critical Studies in Television, 5 (1), 32-45.
Bonner, Frances (2009). Early multi-platforming: Television food programmes, cookbooks and other print spin-offs. Media History, 15 (3), 345-358. doi: 10.1080/13688800902966261
Bonner, Frances (2009). Live Television: Time, Space and the Broadcast Event. Screen, 50 (4), 453-456. doi: 10.1093/screen/hjp033
Bonner, Frances (2008). Cultures of fame and fandom (book review). Cultural Studies Review, 14 (1), 209-214.
Bonner, Frances (2008). Fixing relationships in 2-4-1 transformations. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 22 (4), 547-557. doi: 10.1080/10304310802190038
Bonner, F. J. (2007). A familiar face: The consequences of a long career on screen. ACH: The Journal of the History of Culture in Australia: Australian Television History, 26, 91-111.
Bonner, F. J. and McKay, S. B. (2007). Personalizing current affairs without becoming tabloid: The case of Australian Story. Journalism, 8 (6), 640-656. doi: 10.1177/1464884907083116
Bonner, Frances (2006). Testimonial current affairs: The Australian story approach to celebrity. Media International Australia, 121 (November), 29-40.
Bonner, F. J. (2006). Review: Thumin, Janet, Inventing Television Culture: Men, Women, and the Box. Media International Australia, 119 (1), 175-176. doi: 10.1177/1329878x0611900129
Bonner, F J and McKay, S B (2006). The illness narrative: Australian media reporting of Kylie Minogue's breast cancer. METRO, 148, 154-159.
Bonner, F J (2006). Shirin Neshat Debriefed. Contemporary Visual Arts+Culture, 35 (3), 178-179.
Bonner, F J (2006). 'We love you Kylie. Get well soon'. Reading 'celebrity'. Idiom, 42 (3), 44-48.
Bonner, Frances (2004). Review: Quality Popular Television. Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy, 110 (1), 157-158. doi: 10.1177/1329878x0411000122
McKay, Susan and Bonner, Frances (2004). Educating readers: Breast cancer in Australian women's magazines. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 17 (4), 517-535. doi: 10.1080/09518390410001709571
Bonner, F. J. and McKay, S. B. (2003). Magazine Features and Infotainment Values. Media International Australia, 107 (May), 117-133. doi: 10.1177/1329878x0310700112
McKay, S. and Bonner, F. (2002). Evaluating Illness in Women's Magazines. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 21 (1), 53-67. doi: 10.1177/0261927X02021001004
Bonner, Frances and McKay, Susan (2002). Reporting Childhood Illness in Australian Mass Market Women's Magazines. Australian Journal of Communication, 29 (1), 53-66.
Bonner, F. J., McKay, S. and McKee, A. (2001). On the beach. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 15 (3), 269-274. doi: 10.1080/10304310120086768
Frances, Susan and Bonner, Frances (2000). Introduction. Continuum, 14 (2), 117-119. doi: 10.1080/713657708
Bonner, F. J. and McKay, S. B. (2000). Challenges determination and triumphs: Inspirational discourse in women's magazine health stories. Continuum, 14 (2), 133-144. doi: 10.1080/713657702
McKay, S. B. and Bonner, F. J. (2000). Introduction. Continuum, 14 (2), 117-119.
Bonner, Frances (1999). Review: In the Company of Women: Contemporary Female Friendship Films. Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy, 90 (1), 176-177. doi: 10.1177/1329878x9909000124
Bonner, F. J. (1999). The hard question of squishy machines. M/C: A journal of media and culture, 2 (6)
Bonner, F. J. (1999). This may look like science fiction, but. . .. M/C: A journal of media and culture, 2 (1)
Bonner, Frances, Farley, Rebecca, Marshall, David and Turner, Graeme (1999). Celebrity and the media. Australian Journal of Communication, 26 (1), 55-70.
McKay, Susan and Bonner, Frances (1999). Telling stories: Breast cancer pathographies in Australian women's magazines. Women's Studies International Forum, 22 (5), 563-571. doi: 10.1016/S0277-5395(99)00055-2
Bonner, Frances, McKay, Susan and Goldie, Kathryn (1998). Caring for the family: Fifty years of health in the Australian Women's Weekly. Journal of Australian Studies, 22 (59), 154-164. doi: 10.1080/14443059809387433
Bonner, Frances (1998). Forgetting Linda: Women Cross-dressing in Recent Cinema. Continuum, 12 (3), 267-277. doi: 10.1080/10304319809365770
Bonner, Frances (1996). From the female man to the virtual girl: Whatever happened to feminist SF?. Hecate, 22 (1), 104-119.
Bonner, Frances and du Gay, Paul (1992). Representing the Enterprising Self: Thirtysomething and Contemporary Consumer Culture. Theory, Culture & Society, 9 (2), 67-92. doi: 10.1177/026327692009002004
Conference Papers
Cochrane, Bernadette and Bonner, Frances (2014). Slip sliding away: what changes with the live relay. From Theatre to Screen and Back Again, Leicester, United Kingdom, 19 February 2014.
Bonner, F.J. (2007). Waterwise advice on television gardening programs. NSW, Australia: Australian Water Association.
Creative Work
O'Regan, Thomas, Bonner, Frances J., Jacobs, Jason, Kilner, Kerry, Djubal, Clay and Mills, Catriona (2009). Austlit: Screenlit. St. Lucia, Brisbane, Australia: AustLit.