Paul Rixon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3042929 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Rixon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Rixon |
| SIGNATURE | RIXON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Roehampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8704-4289 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Listener: The changing discourse of radio criticism
This article explores how The Listener , a journal launched in 1929 by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), established itself as a site for serious radio criticism in the United Kingdom. However, such coverage did not appear fully formed, but developed and changed over time, depending on the critic(s) and the industrial and cultural contexts within which they worked. By looking at coverage from three periods – the mid-1930s, mid-1950s and…
The role of British newspapers in framing the public perception and experience of European radio 1930 to 1939
This article analyses how British newspapers in the 1930s created a particular frame or view of radio as an international medium. This frame was created around the idea of a duality, of radio being defined by both national and foreign broadcasts. By analysing coverage provided by the main national newspapers at this time, in relation to their specific radio coverage, such as programme listing and highlights, this paper delineates the form the fra…
Radio and popular journalism in Britain: Early radio critics and radio criticism
This article explores the way British radio critics began to write about radio in the national press during the 1920s and the early 1930s. I will argue that the way radio came to be covered at this time was a result of the way critics were situated in relation to the needs of and interactions between broadcasters, the press and the existing dominant cultural hierarchy of the time. In response to such tensions many critics began to adapt existing …
The impact of new forms of digital communication on press-based TV critics and the emergence of new forms of critical debate
This article explores the question of whether we are seeing the end of newspaper-based TV critics as we know them and, if so, what might be taking their place? The first part of this work explores the role of the (TV) critic and raises the question of what might be missed if they disappear. The second part of the article analyses the impact of new forms of digital communication on newspaper-based TV critics and the emergence of new forms of criti…
Popular newspaper discourse: The case of UK TV criticism from the 1950s to the 1980s
Journalistic discourse, the world over, has developed over time, reflecting changes in the news industry and the wider society. Likewise television criticism, a specific form of journalism, has also had to evolve over time. Initially, as television critics sought recognition and respectability in the quality newspapers, they developed a form of writing similar to the way other forms of culture and art were reviewed. However, as journalists began …
Re-evaluating the role of television criticism in the British press
While television criticism is very popular with readers of newspapers, it has attracted little academic interest, whether as a form of journalistic practice or as part of a critical-public discourse on television. One of the most influential articles on television criticism was published by Mike Poole in 1984, in which he lambasted much of the existing television criticism for approaching television from within a literary-based paradigm, one whic…
The role of the British popular press in re-imagining American television celebrities for the British audience: The 1950s to the 1960s
In this article I will explore how American celebrities were represented by the British popular press in the 1950s and 1960s when American television programmes first appeared and became popular on British screens. Through an analysis of a small selection of news stories I will explore how the representations and images of American celebrities differed from the coverage of British celebrities, what values were at work in such pieces and in what w…
TV Critics and Popular Culture: A History of British Television Criticism
Ever since the first scheduled television broadcasts began in the 1930s, newspapers and magazines took quickly to reviewing this revolutionary new medium. The task of television criticism in the public doman intially fell to radio critics and journalists, but the 1950s saw the rise of the dedicated TV critic. These critics, including Peter Black, Philip Pursor and Clive James, played an important part in shaping the public discourse about televis…
Trading Culture: Global Traffic and Local Culture in Film and Television
This work, edited by Sylvia Harvey, is made up of seventeen papers from the Trading Culture conference held in 2002. The book is divided into three sections, followed by an afterword. The result is an eclectic mix of arguments, which, as I shall explore below, is both its strength and its weakness. A strength in terms of the array of different positions and ideas explored, from Des Freeman's overview of the ins and outs of the negotiations over t…
American Programmes on British Screens: A Revaluation
American Television on British Screens
This work explores how American programmes have become an important part of British television culture since the 1950's, moving from schedule fillers to cornerstones and 'must see' attractions. The bo
American television on British screens: A Story of Cultural Interaction
Distance education or education at a distance
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Re-evaluating the role of television criticism in the British press
While television criticism is very popular with readers of newspapers, it has attracted little academic interest, whether as a form of journalistic practice or as part of a critical-public discourse on television. One of the most influential articles on television criticism was published by Mike Poole in 1984, in which he lambasted much of the existing television criticism for approaching television from within a literary-based paradigm, one whic…
The impact of new forms of digital communication on press-based TV critics and the emergence of new forms of critical debate
This article explores the question of whether we are seeing the end of newspaper-based TV critics as we know them and, if so, what might be taking their place? The first part of this work explores the role of the (TV) critic and raises the question of what might be missed if they disappear. The second part of the article analyses the impact of new forms of digital communication on newspaper-based TV critics and the emergence of new forms of criti…
Popular newspaper discourse: The case of UK TV criticism from the 1950s to the 1980s
Journalistic discourse, the world over, has developed over time, reflecting changes in the news industry and the wider society. Likewise television criticism, a specific form of journalism, has also had to evolve over time. Initially, as television critics sought recognition and respectability in the quality newspapers, they developed a form of writing similar to the way other forms of culture and art were reviewed. However, as journalists began …
The Listener: The changing discourse of radio criticism
This article explores how The Listener , a journal launched in 1929 by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), established itself as a site for serious radio criticism in the United Kingdom. However, such coverage did not appear fully formed, but developed and changed over time, depending on the critic(s) and the industrial and cultural contexts within which they worked. By looking at coverage from three periods – the mid-1930s, mid-1950s and…
Radio and popular journalism in Britain: Early radio critics and radio criticism
This article explores the way British radio critics began to write about radio in the national press during the 1920s and the early 1930s. I will argue that the way radio came to be covered at this time was a result of the way critics were situated in relation to the needs of and interactions between broadcasters, the press and the existing dominant cultural hierarchy of the time. In response to such tensions many critics began to adapt existing …
Distance education or education at a distance
.
American Television on British Screens
This work explores how American programmes have become an important part of British television culture since the 1950's, moving from schedule fillers to cornerstones and 'must see' attractions. The bo
American television on British screens: A Story of Cultural Interaction
American Programmes on British Screens: A Revaluation
Trading Culture: Global Traffic and Local Culture in Film and Television
This work, edited by Sylvia Harvey, is made up of seventeen papers from the Trading Culture conference held in 2002. The book is divided into three sections, followed by an afterword. The result is an eclectic mix of arguments, which, as I shall explore below, is both its strength and its weakness. A strength in terms of the array of different positions and ideas explored, from Des Freeman's overview of the ins and outs of the negotiations over t…
The role of the British popular press in re-imagining American television celebrities for the British audience: The 1950s to the 1960s
In this article I will explore how American celebrities were represented by the British popular press in the 1950s and 1960s when American television programmes first appeared and became popular on British screens. Through an analysis of a small selection of news stories I will explore how the representations and images of American celebrities differed from the coverage of British celebrities, what values were at work in such pieces and in what w…
TV Critics and Popular Culture: A History of British Television Criticism
Ever since the first scheduled television broadcasts began in the 1930s, newspapers and magazines took quickly to reviewing this revolutionary new medium. The task of television criticism in the public doman intially fell to radio critics and journalists, but the 1950s saw the rise of the dedicated TV critic. These critics, including Peter Black, Philip Pursor and Clive James, played an important part in shaping the public discourse about televis…
Re-evaluating the role of television criticism in the British press
While television criticism is very popular with readers of newspapers, it has attracted little academic interest, whether as a form of journalistic practice or as part of a critical-public discourse on television. One of the most influential articles on television criticism was published by Mike Poole in 1984, in which he lambasted much of the existing television criticism for approaching television from within a literary-based paradigm, one whic…
Popular newspaper discourse: The case of UK TV criticism from the 1950s to the 1980s
Journalistic discourse, the world over, has developed over time, reflecting changes in the news industry and the wider society. Likewise television criticism, a specific form of journalism, has also had to evolve over time. Initially, as television critics sought recognition and respectability in the quality newspapers, they developed a form of writing similar to the way other forms of culture and art were reviewed. However, as journalists began …
Radio and popular journalism in Britain: Early radio critics and radio criticism
This article explores the way British radio critics began to write about radio in the national press during the 1920s and the early 1930s. I will argue that the way radio came to be covered at this time was a result of the way critics were situated in relation to the needs of and interactions between broadcasters, the press and the existing dominant cultural hierarchy of the time. In response to such tensions many critics began to adapt existing …
The impact of new forms of digital communication on press-based TV critics and the emergence of new forms of critical debate
This article explores the question of whether we are seeing the end of newspaper-based TV critics as we know them and, if so, what might be taking their place? The first part of this work explores the role of the (TV) critic and raises the question of what might be missed if they disappear. The second part of the article analyses the impact of new forms of digital communication on newspaper-based TV critics and the emergence of new forms of criti…
The role of British newspapers in framing the public perception and experience of European radio 1930 to 1939
This article analyses how British newspapers in the 1930s created a particular frame or view of radio as an international medium. This frame was created around the idea of a duality, of radio being defined by both national and foreign broadcasts. By analysing coverage provided by the main national newspapers at this time, in relation to their specific radio coverage, such as programme listing and highlights, this paper delineates the form the fra…
The Listener: The changing discourse of radio criticism
This article explores how The Listener , a journal launched in 1929 by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), established itself as a site for serious radio criticism in the United Kingdom. However, such coverage did not appear fully formed, but developed and changed over time, depending on the critic(s) and the industrial and cultural contexts within which they worked. By looking at coverage from three periods – the mid-1930s, mid-1950s and…
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