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McCabe, Janet (2019) “And Not That It Matters, but I’m 5 F**king 2 and I Will Rock This Dress”: ageing and its (re)imagining of the female body in HBO’s Sex and the City, with Samantha Jones. Revue Française d'études américaines , ISSN 0397-7870.

Akass, K. and McCabe, Janet (2018) HBO and the aristocracy of contemporary TV culture: affiliations and legitimatising television culture, post-2007. Mise au point (10), ISSN 2261-9623.

McCabe, Janet (2016) Book Review: Swedish Crime Fiction: Novel, Film, Television, Writing and Producing Television Drama in Denmark: From The Kingdom to The Killing. Critical Studies in Television 11 (1), pp. 119-122. ISSN 1749-6020.

McCabe, Janet (2015) Appreciating Wallander at the BBC: producing culture and performing the glocal in the UK and Swedish Wallanders for British public service television. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 29 (5), pp. 755-768. ISSN 1030-4312.

McCabe, Janet (2012) Dossier introduction – grey matters: male ageing, performance and celebrity. Celebrity Studies 3 (2), pp. 125-126. ISSN 1939-2397.

McCabe, Janet (2012) In debate: remembering 9/11: terror, trauma and television 10 years on. Critical Studies in Television 7 (1), pp. 79-98. ISSN 1749-6020.

Allen, Mike and McCabe, Janet (2012) Imitations of lives: ageing men, vocal mimicry and performing celebrity in The Trip. Celebrity Studies 3 (2), pp. 150-163. ISSN 1939-2397.

McCabe, Janet (2006) Cicely under the skin: female narrative and America's historical unconscious in "Northern Exposure". Critical Studies in Television 1 (2), pp. 19-32. ISSN 1749-6020.

McCabe, Janet and Akass, K. (2006) Feminist television criticism: notes and queries. Critical Studies in Television 1 (1), pp. 108-120. ISSN 1749-6020.

McCabe, Janet (2004) Claire on the couch: discourses of female subjectivity, desire and teenage angst in "Six Feet Under". The Scholar and Feminist Online 3 (1),

McCabe, Janet (2004) Textual debaucheries and the flâneur: prostitution as critique of bourgeois discourse in Walter Benjamin's the arcades project. New Formations 54 , pp. 54-68. ISSN 0950-2378.

Editorial/Introduction

Lacey, S. and McCabe, Janet (2017) Editorial. [Editorial/Introduction]

Lacey, S. and McCabe, Janet (2016) Editorial. [Editorial/Introduction]

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McCabe, Janet and Liarou, Eleni and Agger, G. and Akass, K. and Buonanno, M. and Chung, E. and Delveroudi, E.-A. and Esan, O. and Horsley-Heather, E. and Jackson, V. and Jedličková, J. and Kirsch, G. and Leman, J. and Mello, C. and Mithani, F. and Stolyar, J. and Sawhney, R. and Turnbull, S. (2020) Researching women’s TV history. In: Ross, K. (ed.) The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media and Communication. Wiley, pp. 2-23. ISBN 9781119429104.

McCabe, Janet (2016) Locating justice in Wallander: trading TV stories, local jurisdictions and global injustice in the Swedish and UK Wallanders. In: Aristodemou, Maria and Macmillan, Fiona and Tuitt, Patricia (eds.) Crime Fiction and the Law. Birkbeck Law Press. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, pp. 55-70. ISBN 9781138818460.

McCabe, Janet (2016) Bodies of evidence: European crime series, BBC Four and translating (Global) (in) justice into (national) public television culture. In: McElroy, R. (ed.) Contemporary British Television Crime Drama. Taylor and Francis. ISBN 9781472454935.

McCabe, Janet (2012) "Oh Betty, you really are beautiful". In: McCabe, Janet and Akass, K. (eds.) TV's Betty Goes Global: From Telenovela to International Brand. Reading Contemporary Television. London, UK: I.B. Tauris, pp. 1-25. ISBN 9781780762678.

McCabe, Janet (2012) The girl in the Faroese jumper: Sarah Lund, sexual politics and the precariousness of power and difference. In: Peacock, S. (ed.) Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Nordic Noir on Page and Screen. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 118-130. ISBN 9780230390430.

McCabe, Janet (2007) Damsels-in-distress: female narrative authority and knowledge in "24". In: Peacock, S. (ed.) Reading 24: TV Against the Clock. Reading Contemporary Television. London, UK: I.B. Tauris, pp. 149-161. ISBN 9781845113292.

McCabe, Janet (2007) Mac's melancholia: scripting trauma, 9/11 and bodily absence in "CSI: NY". In: Allen, Michael (ed.) Reading CSI: Crime TV Under the Microscope. Reading Contemporary Television. London, UK: I.B Tauris, pp. 167-180. ISBN 9781845114282.

McCabe, Janet and Akass, K. (2007) Married to the mob: separation and divorce in "The Sopranos". In: Leydecker, K. and White, N. (eds.) After Intimacy: The Culture of Divorce in the West since 1789. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang, pp. 257-276. ISBN 9783039101436.

McCabe, Janet and Akass, K. (2007) A perfect lie: visual (dis)pleasures and policing femininity in nip/tuck. In: Heller, D. (ed.) Makeover Television: Realities Remodeled. Reading Contemporary Television. London, UK: I.B. Tauris, pp. 119-132. ISBN 9781845113308.

McCabe, Janet (2006) Myth maketh the woman: Calamity Jane, frontier mythology and creating American (media) historical imaginings. In: Lavery, D. (ed.) Reading "Deadwood": A Western to Swear. Reading Contemporary Television. London, UK: I.B. Tauris, pp. 59-77. ISBN 9781845112219.

McCabe, Janet and Akass, K. (2006) What has Carmela ever done for feminism?: Carmela Soprano and the post-feminist dilemma. In: Lavery, D. (ed.) Reading "The Sopranos": Hit TV from HBO. London, UK: I.B. Tauris, pp. 39-55. ISBN 9781845111212.

McCabe, Janet (2005) Creating audiences for Channel 4's "ER". In: Hammond, M. and Mazdon, L. (eds.) The Contemporary Television Series. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 207-223. ISBN 9780748619016.

McCabe, Janet (2003) Regulating hidden pleasures and 'modern' identities: imagining female spectators, early German popular cinema and "The Oyster Princess" (1919). In: Halle, R. and McCarthy, M. (eds.) Light Motives: German Popular Film in Perspective. Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media. Detroit, Michigan, USA: Wayne State University Press, pp. 24-40. ISBN 9780814330456.

McCabe, Janet and Akass, K. (2002) Beyond the bada bing!: negotiating female narrative authority in "The Sopranos". In: Lavery, D. (ed.) This Things of Ours: Investigating The Sopranos. New York, USA: Wallflower Press, pp. 146-161. ISBN 9780231127813.

McCabe, Janet (2000) Diagnosing the alien: producing identities, American 'quality' drama and British television culture in the 1990s. In: Llewellyn-Jones, M. and Carson, B. (eds.) Frames and Fictions on Television: The Politics of Identity within Drama. Bristol, UK: Intellect Books, pp. 141-154. ISBN 9781841500508.

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McCabe, Janet and Akass, K., eds. (2012) TV's Betty goes global: from telenovela to international brand. Reading Contemporary Television. London, UK: I.B. Tauris. ISBN 9781780762678.

McCabe, Janet (2012) The West Wing. Detroit, U.S.: Wayne State University Press. ISBN 9780814334362.

McCabe, Janet and Akass, K., eds. (2007) Quality tv: contemporary American television and beyond. Reading Contemporary Television. London, UK: I.B. Tauris. ISBN 9781845115111.

McCabe, Janet and Akass, K., eds. (2006) Reading desperate housewives: beyond the white picket fence. Reading Contemporary Television. London, UK: I.B. Tauris. ISBN 9781845112202.

Akass, Kim and McCabe, Janet, eds. (2006) Reading the "L word": outing contemporary television. Reading Contemporary Television. London, UK: I.B. Tauris. ISBN 9781845111793.

McCabe, Janet (2005) Feminist film studies: writing the woman into cinema. New York, USA: Wallflower Press. ISBN 9781904764038.

Akass, K. and McCabe, Janet, eds. (2005) Reading "Six Feet Under": tv to die for. Reading Contemporary Television. London, UK: I.B. Tauris. ISBN 9781850438090.

Akass, K. and McCabe, Janet, eds. (2004) Reading "Sex and the City": critical approaches. Reading Contemporary Television. London, UK: I.B.Tauris. ISBN 9781850434238.

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McCabe, Janet Geopolitics of Transnational TV: a portfolio of written and audiovisual essay work about contemporary TV drama crossing borders. UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)