Jean Bruce

Dr. Jean Bruce recently co-authored a book on the NFB classic film, Forbidden Love: Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives and co-edited a special issue of the European Journal of Cultural Studies on property television in the post-financial crisis era, which was the culmination of SSHRC-supported research on this subject. She is currently working on a collection of essays analysing advertising and consumer culture in the age of media convergence.

Recent publications:

Bruce, J. (2018). Queer Cinema at the NFB: The ‘Strange Case’ of Forbidden Love. In J. Leach & J. Sloniowski (Eds.), Candid Eyes (Vol. 1–Book, Section, pp. 164–180). University of Toronto Press

Bruce, J., & Druick, Z. (2017). Haunted houses: Gender and property television after the financial crisis. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 20(5), 483–489.

Bruce, J. M. (2017). A screwball property: Love It or List It as postfeminist realty TV. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 20(5), 543–559.  

Sample of supervised ComCult projects:

2019 - Donna Gall; Dissertation: Frozen Out: Audience, Affect and Women's Hockey

2014 - Samantha White; Major Research Paper: Reality Television: The Influx of Manufactured Reality in Contemporary Fictional Television

2009 - Marcos Moldes; Thesis: Unfabulous? Alternative media and the politics of representation

2009 - Margaret Mohr; Thesis: Will The Real Auteur Please Stand Up!: Authorship And Product Placement In Film

2009 - Kathryn Schweishelm; Thesis: Plastic makes perfect: The Stepford Wives and the changing politics of the female body

ComCult Teaching Activities

• CC 8836 Selected Topics in Media and Culture - Reality TV
• CC 8921 Visual Culture
• CC 8925 Reading Television
  
• CC 9904 Perspectives in Commun and Culture Studies