Members will be interested in the following new book edited by Michael Bailey
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Narrating Media History
Edited by Michael Bailey
List Price: £19.99(pb); £70.00 (hb)
Routledge Series: Communication and Society
About the Book
Based on the work of media historian, James Curran, Narrating Media History
explores British media history as a series of competing narratives.
This unique and timely collection brings together leading international media
history scholars, not only to identify and contrast the various
interrelationships between media histories, but also to encourage dialogue
between different historical, political, and theoretical perspectives including:
liberalism - feminism - populism - nationalism - libertarianism - radicalism -
technological determinism
Essays by distinguished academics cover television, radio, newspaper press
and advertising (among others) and illustrate the particularities, affinities,
strengths and weaknesses within media history. Each section includes a brief
introduction by the editor, with discussion topics and suggestions for further
reading, making this an invaluable guide for students of media history.
Table of Contents
Foreword Elihu Katz Editor’s Introduction Michael Bailey 1. Narratives of Media
History Revisited James Curran Section I: The Liberal Narrative 2. Renewing
the Liberal Tradition: the Press and Public Discussion in Twentieth-Century
Britain Mark Hampton 3. Change and Reaction in BBC Current Affairs Radio,
1928 – 1970 Hugh Chignell Section II: The Feminist Narrative 4. The Angel in
the Ether: Early Radio and the Constitution of the Household Michael Bailey
5. ‘Going to Spain with the Boys’: Women Correspondents and the Spanish
Civil War David Deacon Section III: The Populist Narrative 6. ‘A Moment of
Triumph in the History of the Free Mind’? British and American Advertising
Agencies’ Responses to the Introduction of Commercial Television in the United
Kingdom Stefan Schwarzkopf 7. The Pilkington Report: the Triumph of
Paternalism? Jeffrey Milland Section IV: The Libertarian Narrative 8. ‘A Stream
of Pollution Through Every Part of the Country?’ Morality, Regulation and the
Modern Popular Press Adrian Bingham 9. ‘Outrageously Bad Taste’: The BBC
and the Controversy over This is Your Life in the 1950s Su Holmes Section V:
The Anthropological Narrative 10. Television in Wales, c.1950-1970 Jamie
Medhurst 11. ‘Nation Shall Speak Peace Unto Nation:’ The BBC and the
Projection of a New Britain, 1967-1982 Daniel Day Section VI: The Radical
Narrative 12. The Birth of Distance: Communications and Changing
Conceptions of Elsewhere Graham Murdock and Michael Pickering 13. What
Fourth Estate? Julian Petley Section VII: The Technological Determinist
Narrative 14. The Question of Technology Paddy Scannell 15. Narrating the
History of Media Technologies: Pitfalls and Prospects Menahem Blondheim
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