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 Routledge Companion to British Media History provides an essential guide to key ideas, issues, concepts and debates in the field.
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Introduction Part I - Media History Debates 1. The Devaluation of History in Media Studies 2. Media as historical artefacts 3. Doing Media History: The Mass Media, Historical Analysis and the 1930s 4. Media Studies in Question: The Making of a Contested Formation 5. Media archaeology: From Turing to Abbey Road, Kentish Radar Stations to Bletchley Park Part II - Media and Society 6. The political economy of media 7. Media effects 8. Citizen or Consumer? Representations of class in post-war media 9. Inscriptions and depictions of 'Race' 10. Home Comforts? Media and the Family 11. Sex and sexuality in British Media 12. This Sporting 'life-world': Mediating Sport in Britain 13. Social Conflict and the Media: Contesting definitional power 14. The media and armed conflict Part III - Newspapers 15. Ballads and the Development of the English Newsbook 16. Eighteenth century newspapers and public opinion 17. The nineteenth century and the emergence of a mass circulation press 18. Tabloid Culture: The Political Economy of a Newspaper Style 19. The Regulation of the Press 20. The Provincial Press in England: An Overview 21. Online and on Death Row: Historicizing newspapers in crisis Part IV - Magazines 22. The role of the literary and cultural periodical 23. Specialist magazines as communities of taste 24. Contexts and developments in women's magazines 25. Mapping the male in magazines 26. Magazine Pioneers: form and content in 1960s and 1970s radicalism Part V - Radio 27. The Reithian legacy and contemporary public service ethos 28. Pirates, popularity and the rise of the DJ 29. The long and winding road: histories and practices of women's radio 30. Radio drama 31. Radio Sports News: The Longevity and Influence of Sports Report 32. Radio's Audiences Part VI - Film 33. The British Cinema: Eras of film 34. British Cinema and History 35. The Horror! 36. The Documentary Tradition 37. The Censor's Tools Part VII - Television 38. The Television Sitcom 39. Drama on the Box 40. The Origins and Practice of Science on British Television 41. History on television 42. Reality TV 43. Journalism and Current Affairs Part VIII - Digital Media 44. Technology's false dawns: the past of media futures 45. Change and continuity: Historicizing the emergence of online media 46. Personal Listening Pleasures 47. Futures of television 48. Video games and gaming - the audience fights back 49. From letters to tweeters: media communities of opinion 50. Digital memories and media of the future
