The Routledge Companion to British Media History provides a comprehensive exploration of how different media have evolved within social, regional and national contexts.
The 50 chapters in this volume, written by an outstanding team of internationally respected scholars, bring together current debates and issues within media history in this era of rapid change, and also provide students and researchers with an essential collection of comparable media histories.
The first two parts of the Companion comprise a series of thematic chapters reflecting broadly on historiography, providing historical context for discussions of the power of the media and their social importance, arranged in the following sections:
* Media History Debates
* Media and Society
The subsequent parts are made up of in-depth sections on different media formats, exploring various approaches to historicizing media futures, divided as follows:
* Newspapers
* Magazines
* Radio
* Film
* Television
* Digital Media
The Routledge Companion to British Media History provides an essential guide to key ideas, issues, concepts and debates in the field.
Author(s): Martin Conboy, John Steel (eds.)
Series: Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2015
Language: English
Pages: 629
Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 6
List of contributors......Page 11
Acknowledgments......Page 18
Introduction: British media and mediations of the past......Page 20
PART I Media history debates......Page 26
1 The devaluation of history in media studies......Page 28
PART II Media and society......Page 92
3 Doing media history: The mass media, historical analysis and the 1930s......Page 48
4 Media studies in question: The making of a contested formation......Page 60
5 Media archaeology: From Turing to Abbey Road, Kentish radar stations to Bletchley Park......Page 79
6 The political economy of media......Page 94
7 Historicizing the media effects debate......Page 104
8 Citizen or consumer? Representations of class in post-war British media......Page 119
9 Inscriptions and depictions of ‘race’......Page 130
10 Home comforts? Gender, media and the family......Page 141
11 Sex and sexuality in British media......Page 152
12 This sporting ‘life-world’: Mediating sport in Britain......Page 166
13 Social conflict and the media: Contesting definitional power......Page 179
14 The media and armed conflict......Page 190
PART III Newspapers......Page 200
15 Ballads and the development of the English newsbook......Page 202
16 Eighteenth-century newspapers and public opinion......Page 214
17 The nineteenth century and the emergence of a mass circulation press......Page 225
18 Tabloid culture: The political economy of a newspaper style......Page 234
19 The regulation of the press......Page 247
20 The provincial press in England: An overview......Page 258
21 Online and on death row: Historicizing newspapers in crisis......Page 269
PART IV Magazines......Page 280
22 The role of the literary and cultural periodical......Page 282
23 Specialist magazines as communities of taste......Page 292
24 Contexts and developments in women’s magazines......Page 304
25 Mapping the male in magazines......Page 316
26 Magazine pioneers: Form and content in 1960s and 1970s radicalism......Page 328
PART V Radio......Page 340
27 The Reithian legacy and contemporary public service ethos......Page 342
28 Pirates, popularity and the rise of the DJ......Page 353
29 Breaking the sound barrier: Histories and practices of women’s radio......Page 364
30 Radio drama......Page 375
31 Radio sports news: The longevity and influence of ‘Sports Report’......Page 385
32 Radio’s audiences......Page 399
PART VI Film......Page 410
33 The British cinema: Eras of film......Page 412
34 British cinema and history......Page 423
35 ‘The Horror!’......Page 433
36 The documentary tradition......Page 444
37 The censors’ tools......Page 456
PART VII Television......Page 468
38 The television sitcom......Page 470
39 Drama on the box......Page 479
40 The origins and practice of science on British television......Page 489
41 History on television......Page 503
42 ‘Reality TV’......Page 512
43 Journalism and current affairs......Page 523
PART VIII Digital Media......Page 534
44 Technology’s false dawns: The past of media futures......Page 536
45 Change and continuity: Historicizing the emergence of online media......Page 547
46 Personal listening pleasures......Page 558
47 Futures of television......Page 569
48 Video games and gaming: The audience fights back......Page 580
49 From letters to tweeters: Media communities of opinion......Page 590
50 Digital memories and media of the future......Page 601
Index......Page 613
