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Mr Ross Garner BA (Cardiff), MA (Bristol), PhD (Cardiff)
Lecturer
School of Journalism, Media and Culture
- GarnerRP1@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 29208 75475
- Two Central Square, Room 1.30, Central Square, Cardiff, CF10 1FS
- Media commentator
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
Dr Ross Garner is a Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies in the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies. Ross is Course Director of the BA Media and Communications and teaches three modules across the BA programmes. Ross joined JOMEC in September 2012 after having previously taught at the University of South Wales and the University of Worcester.
Ross's research interests are firmly located within the field of Television Studies and are primarily focused on the intersection between industrial contexts and the texts that arise from these. This approach includes researching beyond television programmes, however, by taking in areas of television branding and media tourism. Ross has published research in different international peer-edited journals and edited collections, is a regular blogger for Critical Studies in Television and is currently writing the monograph Nostalgia, Digital Television and Transmediality (Bloomsbury, forthcoming).
Alongside Naomi Dunstan, Ross was one of the primary researchers on the AHRC/REACT-funded project Fans on Foot which explored the possibilities of developing connected objects to enhance the experiences of media fans visiting locations used for the filming of their favourite TV programmes.
Ross is currently supervising the following PhD students:
- Rebecca Wright Garraway - "Representations of 'Alpha Females' in Contemporary Hollywood"
- Lama Abuhassan - "Screen Architecture: A Phenomenology of Dread in Thriller Films"
- Kyle Barrowman - "Translating the Dragon: Bruce Lee Between Film and Cultural Studies"
Publication
2023
- Garner, R. 2023. The Doctor Who figurine collection. In: Booth, P. and Hills, M. eds. Adventures Across Space and Time: A Doctor Who Reader. London and New York: Bloomsbury
- Garner, R. 2023. Jurassic Park and dinosaur fandom. In: Melia, M. ed. The Jurassic Park Book. London and New York: Bloomsbury
2022
- Stanfill, M. and Garner, R. 2022. Spotlight: fan and audience studies scholarly interest group.. Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 62(1), pp. 1-3.
2021
- Garner, R. 2021. Mimetic tangible nostalgia and spatial cosplay: replica merchandise and place in fandom's material cultures. In: Leggatt, M. ed. Was it Yesterday? Nostalgia in Contemporary Film and Television. Horizons of Cinema SUNY Press, pp. 71-87.
- Morimoto, L. et al. 2021. Roundtable: Transcultural fan studies in practice: a conversation. Transformative Works and Cultures 35 (10.3983/twc.2021.1975)
- Garner, R. 2021. Acafan identity, communities of practice, and vocational poaching. Transformative Works and Cultures 35 (10.3983/twc.2021.1985)
- Garner, R. 2021. Doctor Who and the dinosaurs: spectacle, monstrosity, melodrama and ideology in dinosaur mediations. In: Harmes, M. K. and Orthia, L. A. eds. Doctor Who and Science: Essays on Ideas, Identities and Ideologies in the Series. McFarland and Company, Inc., pp. 173-189.
2020
- Garner, R. 2020. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom by J. A. Bayona [Review]. Science Fiction Film and Television 13(3), pp. 449-454.
2019
- Garner, R. 2019. Transmedia Tourism editorial. JOMEC Journal(14), pp. 1-10. (10.18573/jomec.194)
- Garner, R. 2019. Finding Nemo’s spaces: Defining and exploring transmedia tourism. JOMEC Journal(14), pp. 11-32. (10.18573/jomec.195)
- Garner, R. 2019. The Mandalorian variation: gender, institutionality, and siscursive constraints in Star Wars rebels. In: Disney's Star Wars: Forces of Production, Promotion, and Reception. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, pp. 109-122.
2018
- Garner, R. 2018. Affective textualities, generalizations and focalizations: fan reactions to Twin Peaks's 2014 paratextual return. The Journal of Fandom Studies 6(1), pp. 63-80. (10.1386/jfs.6.1.63_1)
2017
- Garner, R. 2017. Insecure positions, heteronomous autonomy and tourism-cultural capital: a Bourdieusian reading of tour guides on BBC Worldwide's Doctor Who Experience Walking Tour. Tourist Studies 17(4), pp. 426-442. (10.1177/1468797616680851)
- Garner, R. 2017. Tomorrowland: A World Beyond (Brad Bird 2015). Journal of Science Fiction Film and Television 10(2), pp. 294-298.
- Garner, R. 2017. "It is happening again": paratextuality 'quality' and nostalgia in Twin Peaks's dispersed anniversary. Series - International Journal of TV Serial Narratives 2(2), pp. 41-54. (10.6092/issn.2421-454X/6590)
- Garner, R. 2017. Not my lifeblood: autoethnography, affective fluctuations and popular music antifandom. In: Booth, P. ed. A Companion to Fandom and Fan Studies. London: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 202-236.
2016
- Garner, R. and Shimabukuro, K. 2016. IN FOCUS: Returning to the Red Room - Twin Peaks at twenty-five: Editor's introduction. Cinema Journal 55(3), pp. 118-120. (10.1353/cj.2016.0036)
- Garner, R. 2016. "The series that changed television"? Twin Peaks, "classic" status and temporal capital. Cinema Journal 55(3), pp. 137-142. (10.1353/cj.2016.0020)
- Garner, R. 2016. Going legendary: merchandising, transmediality and nostalgia in Power Rangers Super Megaforce. Presented at: Material Cultures of Television, University of Hull, Hull, UK, 21-22 March 2016.
- Garner, R. P. 2016. Symbolic and cued immersion: paratextual framing strategies on the Doctor Who Experience Walking Tour. Popular Communication 14(2), pp. 86-98. (10.1080/15405702.2016.1153101)
- Garner, R. 2016. Crime drama and channel branding: ITV and Broadchurch. In: McElroy, R. ed. Contemporary British Television Crime Drama: Cops on the Box. Routledge, pp. 139-153.
2015
- Garner, R. 2015. Brand reconciliation? A case study of ITV's 2013 rebrand. Critical Studies in Television: An International Journal of Television Studies 10(1), pp. 3-23. (10.7227/CST.10.1.2)
- Garner, R. 2015. "It is happening again": Twin Peaks and the "dispersed anniversary". Presented at: SCMS - Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference 2015, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 25-29 March 2015.
- Garner, R. 2015. "It is happening again": Twin Peaks and the "dispersed anniversary". Presented at: I'll See You Again in 25 Years: The Return of Twin Peaks and Generations of Cult TV, University of Salford, UK, 21-22 May 2015.
2014
- Garner, R. 2014. "The series that changed television": Twin Peaks, "classic" status and temporal capital. Presented at: SCMS - Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference 2014, Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA, USA, 19-23 March 2014.
- Garner, R. 2014. Celebrating and critiquing "past" and "present"? The intersection between nostalgia and public service discourses in BBC1's Ashes to Ashes. In: Machin, D. ed. Visual Communication. Handbooks of Communication Science Vol. 4. De Gruyter, pp. 405-425.
- Garner, R. 2014. On a (different) plain? Cult geography, authenticity and Nirvana fandom. Presented at: Fan Studies Network Conference 2014, Regent's University, London, UK, 27-28 September 2014.
2013
- Garner, R. 2013. Friends reunited? Authorship discourses and brand management for the Sarah Jane Adventures 'Death of the Doctor'.. In: O'Day, A. ed. Doctor Who, the eleventh hour: a critical celebration of the Matt Smith and Steven Moffat era. Who watching London: I. B. Tauris, pp. 246-264.
- Garner, R. 2013. Towards an inclusive approach? Theorising nostalgia through social constructionism. Presented at: Nostalgias: Visualising Longing, Margate, UK, 9-10 November 2013.
- Garner, R. 2013. Simultaneously 'quality' and 'popular': Layered polysemy and nostalgic discourse in 'Doctor Who' (BBC 2005- ). Presented at: Doctor Who: Walking in Eternity: An Interdisciplinary Conference Celebrating 50 Years of Adventures in Time and Space, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK, 3-5 September 2013.
- Garner, R. 2013. Access denied: Intertextual barricades and public service broadcasting in Torchwood. In: Williams, R. ed. Torchwood Declassified: Investigating Mainstream Cult Television. Investigating Cult TV Series London: I. B. Tauris, pp. 13-32.
- Garner, R. 2013. Remembering Sarah Jane: Intradiegetic allusions, embodied presence/absence and nostalgia. In: Mellor, D., Hills, M. and Earl, B. eds. New Dimensions of Doctor Who: Adventures in Space, Time and Television. Reading Contemporary Television London: I. B. Tauris, pp. 192-215.
- Garner, R. 2013. Investigating 'Life on Mars': The contextual nature of 'classic' TV. Presented at: Cops on the Box: Crime Drama on UK TV Screens, University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK, 15 March 2013.
- Garner, R. 2013. Nostalgia and post-2005 British time travel dramas: A semiotic analysis of a television genre cycle. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
2011
- Garner, R. 2011. A love that spans all ages?: Interrogating the 'mainstream' appeal of ITV1's 'Lost in Austen' (2008). Presented at: Alien Nation: A Conference on British Telefantasy, Northumbria University, UK, 20-21 July 2011.
2010
- Garner, R. 2010. Access denied: Intertextual barricades and public service broadcasting in 'Torchwood'. Presented at: Investigating Torchwood: Text, Context, Audiences, University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK, 18 June 2010.
- Garner, R. 2010. "Don't You Forget About Me": Intertextuality and generic anchoring in The Sarah Jane Adventures. In: Garner, R., Beattie, M. and McCormack, U. eds. Impossible Worlds, Impossible Things: Cultural Perspectives on Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishers, pp. 161-181.
2009
- Garner, R. 2009. The curious case of Amanda Price: Genre cycles, 'constrained innovation' and 'Lost in Austen' as time travel for a female audience. Presented at: Science Fiction across Media: Adaptation/Novelisation, Faculty of Arts, K U Leuven, Netherlands, 28-30 May 2009.
2008
- Garner, R. 2008. What glows beneath: Affective nostalgia in 'Life on Mars'. Presented at: 5th Annual MeCCSA Postgraduate Conference, University of Sussex, UK, 1-2 July 2008.
Articles
- Stanfill, M. and Garner, R. 2022. Spotlight: fan and audience studies scholarly interest group.. Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 62(1), pp. 1-3.
- Morimoto, L. et al. 2021. Roundtable: Transcultural fan studies in practice: a conversation. Transformative Works and Cultures 35 (10.3983/twc.2021.1975)
- Garner, R. 2021. Acafan identity, communities of practice, and vocational poaching. Transformative Works and Cultures 35 (10.3983/twc.2021.1985)
- Garner, R. 2020. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom by J. A. Bayona [Review]. Science Fiction Film and Television 13(3), pp. 449-454.
- Garner, R. 2019. Transmedia Tourism editorial. JOMEC Journal(14), pp. 1-10. (10.18573/jomec.194)
- Garner, R. 2019. Finding Nemo’s spaces: Defining and exploring transmedia tourism. JOMEC Journal(14), pp. 11-32. (10.18573/jomec.195)
- Garner, R. 2018. Affective textualities, generalizations and focalizations: fan reactions to Twin Peaks's 2014 paratextual return. The Journal of Fandom Studies 6(1), pp. 63-80. (10.1386/jfs.6.1.63_1)
- Garner, R. 2017. Insecure positions, heteronomous autonomy and tourism-cultural capital: a Bourdieusian reading of tour guides on BBC Worldwide's Doctor Who Experience Walking Tour. Tourist Studies 17(4), pp. 426-442. (10.1177/1468797616680851)
- Garner, R. 2017. Tomorrowland: A World Beyond (Brad Bird 2015). Journal of Science Fiction Film and Television 10(2), pp. 294-298.
- Garner, R. 2017. "It is happening again": paratextuality 'quality' and nostalgia in Twin Peaks's dispersed anniversary. Series - International Journal of TV Serial Narratives 2(2), pp. 41-54. (10.6092/issn.2421-454X/6590)
- Garner, R. and Shimabukuro, K. 2016. IN FOCUS: Returning to the Red Room - Twin Peaks at twenty-five: Editor's introduction. Cinema Journal 55(3), pp. 118-120. (10.1353/cj.2016.0036)
- Garner, R. 2016. "The series that changed television"? Twin Peaks, "classic" status and temporal capital. Cinema Journal 55(3), pp. 137-142. (10.1353/cj.2016.0020)
- Garner, R. P. 2016. Symbolic and cued immersion: paratextual framing strategies on the Doctor Who Experience Walking Tour. Popular Communication 14(2), pp. 86-98. (10.1080/15405702.2016.1153101)
- Garner, R. 2015. Brand reconciliation? A case study of ITV's 2013 rebrand. Critical Studies in Television: An International Journal of Television Studies 10(1), pp. 3-23. (10.7227/CST.10.1.2)
Book sections
- Garner, R. 2023. The Doctor Who figurine collection. In: Booth, P. and Hills, M. eds. Adventures Across Space and Time: A Doctor Who Reader. London and New York: Bloomsbury
- Garner, R. 2023. Jurassic Park and dinosaur fandom. In: Melia, M. ed. The Jurassic Park Book. London and New York: Bloomsbury
- Garner, R. 2021. Mimetic tangible nostalgia and spatial cosplay: replica merchandise and place in fandom's material cultures. In: Leggatt, M. ed. Was it Yesterday? Nostalgia in Contemporary Film and Television. Horizons of Cinema SUNY Press, pp. 71-87.
- Garner, R. 2021. Doctor Who and the dinosaurs: spectacle, monstrosity, melodrama and ideology in dinosaur mediations. In: Harmes, M. K. and Orthia, L. A. eds. Doctor Who and Science: Essays on Ideas, Identities and Ideologies in the Series. McFarland and Company, Inc., pp. 173-189.
- Garner, R. 2019. The Mandalorian variation: gender, institutionality, and siscursive constraints in Star Wars rebels. In: Disney's Star Wars: Forces of Production, Promotion, and Reception. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, pp. 109-122.
- Garner, R. 2017. Not my lifeblood: autoethnography, affective fluctuations and popular music antifandom. In: Booth, P. ed. A Companion to Fandom and Fan Studies. London: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 202-236.
- Garner, R. 2016. Crime drama and channel branding: ITV and Broadchurch. In: McElroy, R. ed. Contemporary British Television Crime Drama: Cops on the Box. Routledge, pp. 139-153.
- Garner, R. 2014. Celebrating and critiquing "past" and "present"? The intersection between nostalgia and public service discourses in BBC1's Ashes to Ashes. In: Machin, D. ed. Visual Communication. Handbooks of Communication Science Vol. 4. De Gruyter, pp. 405-425.
- Garner, R. 2013. Friends reunited? Authorship discourses and brand management for the Sarah Jane Adventures 'Death of the Doctor'.. In: O'Day, A. ed. Doctor Who, the eleventh hour: a critical celebration of the Matt Smith and Steven Moffat era. Who watching London: I. B. Tauris, pp. 246-264.
- Garner, R. 2013. Access denied: Intertextual barricades and public service broadcasting in Torchwood. In: Williams, R. ed. Torchwood Declassified: Investigating Mainstream Cult Television. Investigating Cult TV Series London: I. B. Tauris, pp. 13-32.
- Garner, R. 2013. Remembering Sarah Jane: Intradiegetic allusions, embodied presence/absence and nostalgia. In: Mellor, D., Hills, M. and Earl, B. eds. New Dimensions of Doctor Who: Adventures in Space, Time and Television. Reading Contemporary Television London: I. B. Tauris, pp. 192-215.
- Garner, R. 2010. "Don't You Forget About Me": Intertextuality and generic anchoring in The Sarah Jane Adventures. In: Garner, R., Beattie, M. and McCormack, U. eds. Impossible Worlds, Impossible Things: Cultural Perspectives on Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishers, pp. 161-181.
Conferences
- Garner, R. 2016. Going legendary: merchandising, transmediality and nostalgia in Power Rangers Super Megaforce. Presented at: Material Cultures of Television, University of Hull, Hull, UK, 21-22 March 2016.
- Garner, R. 2015. "It is happening again": Twin Peaks and the "dispersed anniversary". Presented at: SCMS - Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference 2015, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 25-29 March 2015.
- Garner, R. 2015. "It is happening again": Twin Peaks and the "dispersed anniversary". Presented at: I'll See You Again in 25 Years: The Return of Twin Peaks and Generations of Cult TV, University of Salford, UK, 21-22 May 2015.
- Garner, R. 2014. "The series that changed television": Twin Peaks, "classic" status and temporal capital. Presented at: SCMS - Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference 2014, Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA, USA, 19-23 March 2014.
- Garner, R. 2014. On a (different) plain? Cult geography, authenticity and Nirvana fandom. Presented at: Fan Studies Network Conference 2014, Regent's University, London, UK, 27-28 September 2014.
- Garner, R. 2013. Towards an inclusive approach? Theorising nostalgia through social constructionism. Presented at: Nostalgias: Visualising Longing, Margate, UK, 9-10 November 2013.
- Garner, R. 2013. Simultaneously 'quality' and 'popular': Layered polysemy and nostalgic discourse in 'Doctor Who' (BBC 2005- ). Presented at: Doctor Who: Walking in Eternity: An Interdisciplinary Conference Celebrating 50 Years of Adventures in Time and Space, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK, 3-5 September 2013.
- Garner, R. 2013. Investigating 'Life on Mars': The contextual nature of 'classic' TV. Presented at: Cops on the Box: Crime Drama on UK TV Screens, University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK, 15 March 2013.
- Garner, R. 2011. A love that spans all ages?: Interrogating the 'mainstream' appeal of ITV1's 'Lost in Austen' (2008). Presented at: Alien Nation: A Conference on British Telefantasy, Northumbria University, UK, 20-21 July 2011.
- Garner, R. 2010. Access denied: Intertextual barricades and public service broadcasting in 'Torchwood'. Presented at: Investigating Torchwood: Text, Context, Audiences, University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK, 18 June 2010.
- Garner, R. 2009. The curious case of Amanda Price: Genre cycles, 'constrained innovation' and 'Lost in Austen' as time travel for a female audience. Presented at: Science Fiction across Media: Adaptation/Novelisation, Faculty of Arts, K U Leuven, Netherlands, 28-30 May 2009.
- Garner, R. 2008. What glows beneath: Affective nostalgia in 'Life on Mars'. Presented at: 5th Annual MeCCSA Postgraduate Conference, University of Sussex, UK, 1-2 July 2008.
Thesis
- Garner, R. 2013. Nostalgia and post-2005 British time travel dramas: A semiotic analysis of a television genre cycle. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
Research
My research is located within the field of Television Studies and typically explores the intersections between aspects of contemporary industry practice and the texts or products that arise as a result of these institutional factors. The approach I use takes in a broad range of texts, however, such as publicity, branding and marketing material or official and unofficial examples of media tourism.
My current areas of research cover:
- Constructions of nostalgia in relation to television production contexts.
- Media tourism.
- Transmediality and transmedia storytelling.
- "Classic" television.
- Television industries.
- Cult TV.
- Twin Peaks and/or the cinema of David Lynch.
Teaching
Modules:
Ross is Module Leader on the following undergraduate courses:
- Year One - An Introduction to Media Audiences
- Year Three - Marketing, Promotion and Branding in Television Cultures
- Year Three - Screening Locations
Supervision:
Ross supervises dissertation research across BA, MA and PhD levels. Typical topics of interest include (but are not necessarily limited to):
- Media constructions of nostalgia.
- Transmediality and transmedia storytelling.
- Media tourism.
- Television industries and institutions.
- Industrially-focused approaches to cult media and fandom.
- Twin Peaks and/or the cinema of David Lynch.
