Publications

2024

• Balanzategui, J & Baker, D (2024) Why are adults without kids hooked on Bluey? And should we still be calling it a ‘kids’ show’? The Conversation, 2 May.

• Baker, D (2024) Animating Sub-Mariner and Aquaman: Generational Taste and the Moral Panic of the 1968 Television Season, Superheroes Beyond, C. McGarry, L. Burke, I. Gordon and A. Ndalianis (eds), Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, pp. 98-110.

2023

• Balanzategui, J; Baker, D; Burke, L; McIntyre, J. (2023) Children’s Perspectives Study Expanded Data Summary – June 2023, Australian Children’s Television Cultures.

• Balanzategui, J (Interview) in Lenton, P (2023). ‘Why is the internet obsessed with ‘oddly satisfying’ videos?’ ABC News, 6 December.

• Given, L, Balanzategui, J and Polkinghorne, S. 2023. ‘Is AI Coming for our Kids? Why the latest wave of pop-cultural tech anxiety should come as no surprise’. The Conversation, 7 September.

• Burke, L. (2023). More Bluey, less PAW Patrol: why Australian parents want locally made TV for their kids. The Conversation, 24 October.

• Balanzategui, J (Interview) in Geraets, N (2023) ‘Goosebumps is back. Why is horror such a popular form of kids’ entertainment?’ The Age, 16 October.

• Balanzategui, J. (2023). Beyond Bluey: the future of Australian children’s TV depends on ‘smart’ TV policy. Crikey, 17 April.

• McIntyre, J., Burke, L., Baker, D., & Balanzategui, J. (2023). Kids’ TV Memories: Audience Perspectives on the Roles and Long-term Value of Australian Children’s Television. Swinburne University of Technology Research Bank.

• McIntyre, J., Riggs, D.W. & Bartholomaeus, C. (2023) Jazz Jennings and Evie Macdonald: trans child celebrities, transnormativity, and childhood ‘innocence’, Celebrity Studies, 14:2, 214-226, DOI: 10.1080/19392397.2022.2109310

• Baker, Djoymi; Balanzategui, Jessica & Sandars, Diana. (2023). Netflix, Dark Fantastic Genres, and Intergenerational Viewing: Family Watch Together TV. London: Routledge.

• Baker, Djoymi; Balanzategui, Jessica. (2023). Heritage Child Stars on Disney+: Child Stardom in the SVOD Era. Celebrity Studies Special Issue: “Children and Celebrities.” 14:2, 186-199. doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2022.2109307 

• Baker, Djoymi; Balanzategui, Jessica; and Sandars, Diana. (2023) “The Child Celebrity as Palimpsest: Reconceputalising the interface between childhood and celebrity studies.” Celebrity Studies. doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2022.2109302.

• Baker, D; Balanzategui, J; and Sandars, D. “Children and Celebrities.” Celebrity Studies Special Issue.

2022

• O’Meara, D and Burke, L 2022, ‘Peppa Pig has introduced a pair of lesbian polar bears, but Aussie kids’ TV has been leading the way in queer representation’, The Conversation, 22 September.

• McIntyre, J and O’Meara, D 2022, ‘Would Carlotta, Australia’s most celebrated drag queen, have made it on Rupaul’s Drage Race?’, The Conversation, 4 August.

• O’Meara, D, Balanzategui, J and McIntyre, J 2022, ‘The loss of Neighbours is a loss of career pathways for Australia’s emerging screen professionals’, The Conversation, 26 July.

• Balanzategui, J (interview) in Watson, M (2022), ‘Beyond Bluey: Does Australian children’s TV have a future?’ Sydney Morning Herald, 17 July.

• Balanzategui, J 2022, TV horror-fantasy for children as transnational genre: Round the Twist, generic subversions, and quality Australian children's television Children, Youth, and International Television Ed. Debbie Olson, Adrian Schober (eds.), Chapter 4, pp. 69-88 https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003243274-6.

• Burke, L, McIntyre, J, Balanzategui, J & Baker, D 2022, ‘Parents’ perspectives on Australian children’s television in the streaming era’, Swinburne Research Bank.

2021

• Baker, D 2021, Intergenerational Spectatorship: Doctor Who at the beach, CSTonline, 12 February.

• Baker, D, Balanzategui, J, McIntyre, J & Burke, L 2021, Beyond Bluey: why adults love re-watching Australian kids’ TV from their childhoods, The Conversation, 16 November.

• Balanzategui, J, Baker, D, McIntyre, J & Burke, L 2021, Round the Twist’s fans grew up - and their love for the show grew with them, The Conversation, 10 September.

• Burke, L, Baker, D, Balanzategui, J & McIntyre, J 2021, ‘An idealised Australian ethos’: why bluey is an audience favourite, event for adults without kids,The Conversation, 29 September.

• McIntyre, J 2021, Interviewing a queer national celebrity: Carlotta as an ‘outsider within’ Australian celebrity culture, in A Taylor & J McIntyre (eds), Gender and Celebrity in Australian Culture, Cambridge: Routledge.

• Taylor, A & McIntyre, J 2021, Gendering Australian celebrity, in A Taylor and J McIntyre (eds), Gender and Australian Celebrity Culture. Cambridge: Routledge.

2020

• Baker, D 2020, Child’s Play: Addressing the young Cold War audience in Captain Video and His Video Rangers (1949-55), Critical Studies in Television, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 112-128.

• Baker, D, Balanzategui J, & Sandars, D 2020 ‘Family Watch Together TV’: Netflix and the Dark Intergenerational Fantasy, CSTonline, 3 April.

• Balanzategui, J 2021 [interview], Future of Aussie children’s TV is at risk, 2ser 107.3, November 12.

• Balanzategui, J. 2020, The Shining’s Uncanny Children and the Conflicted Nostalgia of Doctor Sleep, Senses of Cinema, July.

• Balanzategui, J 2020, Towards an understanding of children’s screen genres in the streaming video era, NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies, Autumn Special Issue: Methods.

• Balanzategui, J 2020 [interview], Disney’s wrestling with its racist history on Disney Plus, CNET.com, June 25.

• Balanzategui, J, Burke L & McIntyre J 2020, Cheese ‘n’ crackers! Concerns deepen for the future of Australian children’s television, The Conversation, 1 October.

• Balanzategui, J, Burke L & McIntyre J 2020, What would Bandit do?’: reaffirming the educational role of Australian children’s television during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, Media International Australia, vol. 178, no. 1.

2019

• Balanzategui, J 2019, In an age of Elsa/Spider-Man romantic mash ups, how to monitor YouTube’s children’s content? The Conversation, September 12.

• Balanzategui, J 2019, More streaming services could change what we watch on TV and how we watch it, The Conversation, August 29.

2018

• Balanzategui, J 2018, Are You Afraid of the Dark? Children’s Horror Anthology Series in the 1990s, in A Schober and D Olson (eds), Children, Youth and American Television, Routledge. ISBN: 781-1-3860-1185.

• Balanzategui, J 2018, The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema: Ghosts of Futurity in The Twenty-first Century. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam. ISBN: 978-946-2986-510.

• Balanzategui, J, Burke L & Golding, D 2018, Recommending a new system: an audience-based approach to film categorisation in the digital age, Participations: A Journal of Audience Research, November issue.

• McIntyre, J 2018, ‘They’re so normal I can’t stand it’: I am Jazz, I am Cait, transnormativity, and trans feminism, in R Overell & C Dale (eds), Orienting Feminisms: Activism, Media, and Cultural Representation. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 7–24.

2017

• Baker, D 2017, Terms of excess: Binge-viewing, epic-viewing, and the Netflix effect, in C Barker & M Wiatrowski (eds), The Age of Netflix: Critical Essays on Streaming Media, Digital Delivery and Instant Access. Jefferson NC: McFarland, pp. 31-54.

• Balanzategui, J 2017, The Babadook and the Haunted Space Between High and Low Genres in the Australian Horror Tradition, Studies in Australasian Cinema, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 18-32.

• McIntyre, J 2017, More Australian trans stories on our screens, please, The Conversation, December 19.

• McIntyre, J 2017, Transgender Idol: Queer subjectivities and Australian reality TV, European Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 87–103.

2016

• Balanzategui, J & Kristjanson, G 2016, Hooked on Happy Thoughts: New Sincerity and Spielberg’s Troubled Nostalgia for Mythic Childhood, Children in the Films of Steven Spielberg, A Schober & D Olson (eds), Lexington. 183-206. ISBN: 978-1-4985-1884-0

• Balanzategui, J & Later, N 2016, Dark and Wicked Things: Slender Man, Tween Girlhood and Deadly Liminalities, Misfit Children: An Inquiry into Childhood Belongings, M Bohlmann (ed), Lexington. 7-88. ISBN: 978-1-4985-2579-4.

2015

• Balanzategui, J 2015, Insects Trapped in Amber: The Mutant Child Seer in Contemporary Spanish Horror Film, Monstrous Children and Childish Monsters: Essays on Cinema’s Holy Terrors, S Moreland and M Bohlmann (eds), McFarland, pp. 225-243. ISBN: 978-0-7864-9479-8 (100%)

• Balanzategui, J 2015, The Child Transformed by Monsters: The Monstrous Beauty of Childhood Trauma in the works of Guillermo del Toro” The Supernatural Cinema of Guillermo del Toro, J Morehead (ed), McFarland, pp. 76-92. ISBN: 978-0-7864-9595-5

• McIntyre, J 2015, Mass communication, minority representation, and national identity: Transgender in mainstream Australian television and film, In: Refereed Proceedings of the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association Conference: Rethinking Communication, Space and Identity. Australian and New Zealand Communication Association Conference, pp. 1–12.

• McIntyre, J 2015, Respect and responsibility? Hetero-masculine drag and Australian football culture, Outskirts, vol. 33, pp. 1–17.

2011

• McIntyre, J 2011, He did it her way on TV: Representing an Australian transsexual celebrity Onscreen, Gay and Lesbian Issues and Psychology Review, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 19–32.

2009

• Burke, L 2009, Drawing conclusions: Irish animation and national cinema, Estudios Irlandeses, no. 4, pp. 187-191.