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Popular Newspapers, the Labour Party and British Politics
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 198.00'IT'S THE SUN WOT WON IT', was the famous headline claim of Britain's most popular newspaper following the Conservative party's victory over Labour in the 1992 general election. The headline referred to a virulent press campaign against Neil Kinnock's Labour party, and dramatically highlighted one of the chief features of British politics during the... more...
Prime Ministers and the Media
Wiley 2008; US$ 142.95This book looks at the ways in which prime ministers manage and fail to manage their public communication. A timely examination of the ways in which prime ministers manage and fail to manage their public communication. Original in scope, covering political rumours, political cartoons and capital cities, in addition to more familiar topics. Sets... more...
Europe in the Media
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 131.00Europe in the Media draws together the results of several research projects that examined media coverage of European political and cultural affairs and media representations of Europe. The book attempts to outline some of the important debates regarding European integration and to describe the media landscape in which these debates are informed,... more...
The Peep Diaries
City Lights Publishers 2009; US$ 17.95One man's journey through a rapidly transforming culture of lying, spying, revealing, and confessing. more...
Wife in the North
PublicAffairs 2009; US$ 14.95Based on the popular blog: One wife, mother, and writer extraordinaire?s uproariously funny and heartwarming account of the joys and terrors of leaving the city for the country with a young family in tow. more...
Public Issue Radio
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00Based on original and previously unseen written and sound archives and interviews with former and current radio producers and presenters, Public Issue Radio addresses the controversial question of the political leanings of current affairs programmes, and asks if Analysis became an early platform for both Thatcherite and Blairite ideas. more...
The English Press in the Eighteenth Century (Routledge Revivals)
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 42.95First published in 1987, this is a comprehensive analysis of the rise of the British Press in the eighteenth century, as a component of the understanding of eighteenth century political and social history. Professor Black considers the reasons for the growth of the "print culture" and the relations of newspapers to magazines and pamphlets; the mechanics... more...
Imaginary Ethnographies
Columbia University Press 2012; US$ 26.99Through readings of iconic figures such as the cannibal, the child, the alien, and the posthuman, Gabriele Schwab unpacks literary explorations at the boundaries of the human. Treating literature as a dynamic process that ?writes culture,? makes the abstract particular and local, and situates us within the world, she pioneers a compelling approach... more...
Journalism and Democracy
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 52.95The public sphere is said to be in crisis. Dumbing down, tabloidisation, infotainment and spin are alleged to contaminate it, adversely affecting the quality of political journalism and of democracy itself. There is a pervasive pessimism about the relationship between the media and democracy, and widespread concern for the future of the political process.... more...
Name of the Mother
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 135.00In this original and highly accomplished study, Marie Maclean studies the writings of social rebels and explores the relationship between their personal narratives and illegitimacy. The case studies which Maclean examines fall into four different groups which: * stress alternative family structures and `female genealogies' * pair female illegitimacy... more...









