ABSTRACT

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.

Chapter 40 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315756202.ch40

 

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

British media and mediations of the past

part |66 pages

Media History Debates

chapter 3|12 pages

Doing media history

The mass media, historical analysis and the 1930s

chapter 4|19 pages

Media studies in question

The making of a contested formation

chapter 5|13 pages

Media archaeology

From Turing to Abbey Road, Kentish radar stations to Bletchley Park

part |108 pages

Media and Society

chapter 8|11 pages

Citizen or consumer?

Representations of class in post-war British media

chapter 10|11 pages

Home comforts?

Gender, media and the family

chapter 11|14 pages

Sex and sexuality in British media

chapter 12|13 pages

This sporting ‘life-world'

Mediating sport in Britain

chapter 13|11 pages

Social conflict and the media

Contesting definitional power

chapter 14|10 pages

The media and armed conflict

part |80 pages

Newspapers

chapter 18|13 pages

Tabloid culture

The political economy of a newspaper style

chapter 19|11 pages

The regulation of the press

chapter 20|11 pages

The provincial press in England

An overview

chapter 21|11 pages

Online and on death row

Historicizing newspapers in crisis

part |59 pages

Magazines

chapter 25|12 pages

Mapping the male in magazines

chapter 26|11 pages

Magazine pioneers

Form and content in 1960s and 1970s radicalism

part |69 pages

Radio

chapter 29|11 pages

Breaking the sound barrier

Histories and practices of women's radio

chapter 30|10 pages

Radio drama

chapter 31|14 pages

Radio sports news

The longevity and influence of ‘Sports Report'

chapter 32|10 pages

Radio's audiences

part |58 pages

Film

chapter 33|11 pages

The British cinema

Eras of film

chapter 34|10 pages

British cinema and history

chapter 35|11 pages

‘The Horror!'

chapter 36|12 pages

The documentary tradition

chapter 37|12 pages

The censors' tools

part |65 pages

Television

chapter 38|9 pages

The television sitcom

chapter 39|10 pages

Drama on the box

chapter 41|9 pages

History on television

chapter 42|11 pages

‘Reality TV'

chapter 43|10 pages

Journalism and current affairs

part |79 pages

Digital Media

chapter 45|11 pages

Change and continuity

Historicizing the emergence of online media

chapter 46|11 pages

Personal listening pleasures

chapter 47|11 pages

Futures of television

chapter 48|10 pages

Video games and gaming

The audience fights back

chapter 49|11 pages

From letters to tweeters

Media communities of opinion