The Routledge Companion to British Media History

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