Ann Gray
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673819 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ann Gray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ann |
| FAMILY NAME | Gray |
| SIGNATURE | GRAY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lincoln |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
History on Television
In recent years non-fiction history programmes have flourished on television. This interdisciplinary study of history programming identifies and examines different genres employed by producers and tracks their commissioning, production, marketing and distribution histories. With comparative references to other European nations and North America, the authors focus on British history programming over the last two decades and analyse the relationshi…
The think-tank of American cultural studies
History on British Television
Rough Crossings and Congo
As scholars charting representations of the 1807 abolition of the transatlantic slave trade in the UK have noted, its portrayal on British radio and television was minimal until the recent bicentenary commemorations (Wilson 2007: 391). This article focuses on two examples from the BBC’s 2007 ‘Abolition Season’: Congo: White King,Red Rubber, Black Death, written and directed by Peter Bate, which first aired in February 2004, and Simon Schama’s Rou…
Televising History
This volume brings together scholars from across Europe to critically examine TV history programming in a period of political, economic and cultural change. They look at links between programming and
CCCS Selected Working Papers
CCCS Selected Working Papers
This chapter considers the 'strange fate of progressive education' in the postwar period and explores the way in which its ideas and themes have been taken up and distorted by the new vocationalism of the 1970s and 1980s. The concerns of progressive education had to some extent been reflected in liberal and general studies in the 1960s and were echoed by the 'humanism' of the Crowther Report. The aim of liberal and general studies was to move stu…
History on television
What appears on screen as `TV history' is limited by a number of possible factors; technological, financial and cultural. This article considers some of these limitations, as little is known about the processes whereby representations of the past are mediated, shaped and transformed through television. This raises pertinent questions about the construction, distribution and marketing of narratives about national and other pasts. Using oral histor…
Video Playtime
The 1980s saw an explosion in the use of the domestic video cassette recorder (VCR), arguably the most significant new form of home entertainment technology since television. In Video Playtime Ann Gray investigates what women themselves felt about the VCR, both in terms of the ways these entertainment facilities were used within their households, and what kinds of programmes and films they themselves particularly enjoyed.Ann Gray draws heavily on…
New Europe, new cultural studies
International audience
Atlantic Crossings
Research Practice for Cultural Studies
Enterprising Femininity
This article introduces a group of ‘enterprising women’ in occupations dealing with ‘impression management’ and ‘care of the self’. It argues that this brand of worker successfully transforms skills acquired through consumption and the making of the feminine into increasingly valuable marketable skills. As such she embodies a blurring of consumption and production and inhabits a particular form of enterprising femininity. Through a reflexive life…
Cultural studies at Birmingham
In the wake of the closure of the Department of Cultural Studies and Sociology at the University of Birmingham, UK, in July 2002, this article argues that an important legacy of cultural studies, critical and reflexive pedagogy, is the real casualty of this event and future generations of highly motivated and strong students its victims. The closure is presented as a case study of the penetrations of an audit culture into the intellectual fabric …
Audience and Reception Research in Retrospect
Constructions of cultural studies
Video Playtime
Resisting economic conscription
The British left's response to the Tory government's labour market strategies has been piecemeal and ineffective. It has been severely compromised by the historical involvement of the Labour Party and the TUC in the MSC. The adherence of the labour movement to the work ethic, the idea that each should be paid according to labour contributed rather than to need, has become a stumbling block. Gray argues that a left labour market strategy must firs…
History on Television
In recent years non-fiction history programmes have flourished on television. This interdisciplinary study of history programming identifies and examines different genres employed by producers and tracks their commissioning, production, marketing and distribution histories. With comparative references to other European nations and North America, the authors focus on British history programming over the last two decades and analyse the relationshi…
History on television
What appears on screen as `TV history' is limited by a number of possible factors; technological, financial and cultural. This article considers some of these limitations, as little is known about the processes whereby representations of the past are mediated, shaped and transformed through television. This raises pertinent questions about the construction, distribution and marketing of narratives about national and other pasts. Using oral histor…
Enterprising Femininity
This article introduces a group of ‘enterprising women’ in occupations dealing with ‘impression management’ and ‘care of the self’. It argues that this brand of worker successfully transforms skills acquired through consumption and the making of the feminine into increasingly valuable marketable skills. As such she embodies a blurring of consumption and production and inhabits a particular form of enterprising femininity. Through a reflexive life…
Televising History
This volume brings together scholars from across Europe to critically examine TV history programming in a period of political, economic and cultural change. They look at links between programming and
Cultural studies at Birmingham
In the wake of the closure of the Department of Cultural Studies and Sociology at the University of Birmingham, UK, in July 2002, this article argues that an important legacy of cultural studies, critical and reflexive pedagogy, is the real casualty of this event and future generations of highly motivated and strong students its victims. The closure is presented as a case study of the penetrations of an audit culture into the intellectual fabric …
History on British Television
The think-tank of American cultural studies
Rough Crossings and Congo
As scholars charting representations of the 1807 abolition of the transatlantic slave trade in the UK have noted, its portrayal on British radio and television was minimal until the recent bicentenary commemorations (Wilson 2007: 391). This article focuses on two examples from the BBC’s 2007 ‘Abolition Season’: Congo: White King,Red Rubber, Black Death, written and directed by Peter Bate, which first aired in February 2004, and Simon Schama’s Rou…
Resisting economic conscription
The British left's response to the Tory government's labour market strategies has been piecemeal and ineffective. It has been severely compromised by the historical involvement of the Labour Party and the TUC in the MSC. The adherence of the labour movement to the work ethic, the idea that each should be paid according to labour contributed rather than to need, has become a stumbling block. Gray argues that a left labour market strategy must firs…
Resisting economic conscription
The British left's response to the Tory government's labour market strategies has been piecemeal and ineffective. It has been severely compromised by the historical involvement of the Labour Party and the TUC in the MSC. The adherence of the labour movement to the work ethic, the idea that each should be paid according to labour contributed rather than to need, has become a stumbling block. Gray argues that a left labour market strategy must firs…
Video Playtime
Audience and Reception Research in Retrospect
Constructions of cultural studies
Research Practice for Cultural Studies
Enterprising Femininity
This article introduces a group of ‘enterprising women’ in occupations dealing with ‘impression management’ and ‘care of the self’. It argues that this brand of worker successfully transforms skills acquired through consumption and the making of the feminine into increasingly valuable marketable skills. As such she embodies a blurring of consumption and production and inhabits a particular form of enterprising femininity. Through a reflexive life…
Cultural studies at Birmingham
In the wake of the closure of the Department of Cultural Studies and Sociology at the University of Birmingham, UK, in July 2002, this article argues that an important legacy of cultural studies, critical and reflexive pedagogy, is the real casualty of this event and future generations of highly motivated and strong students its victims. The closure is presented as a case study of the penetrations of an audit culture into the intellectual fabric …
Atlantic Crossings
New Europe, new cultural studies
International audience
Video Playtime
The 1980s saw an explosion in the use of the domestic video cassette recorder (VCR), arguably the most significant new form of home entertainment technology since television. In Video Playtime Ann Gray investigates what women themselves felt about the VCR, both in terms of the ways these entertainment facilities were used within their households, and what kinds of programmes and films they themselves particularly enjoyed.Ann Gray draws heavily on…
CCCS Selected Working Papers
CCCS Selected Working Papers
This chapter considers the 'strange fate of progressive education' in the postwar period and explores the way in which its ideas and themes have been taken up and distorted by the new vocationalism of the 1970s and 1980s. The concerns of progressive education had to some extent been reflected in liberal and general studies in the 1960s and were echoed by the 'humanism' of the Crowther Report. The aim of liberal and general studies was to move stu…
History on television
What appears on screen as `TV history' is limited by a number of possible factors; technological, financial and cultural. This article considers some of these limitations, as little is known about the processes whereby representations of the past are mediated, shaped and transformed through television. This raises pertinent questions about the construction, distribution and marketing of narratives about national and other pasts. Using oral histor…
Rough Crossings and Congo
As scholars charting representations of the 1807 abolition of the transatlantic slave trade in the UK have noted, its portrayal on British radio and television was minimal until the recent bicentenary commemorations (Wilson 2007: 391). This article focuses on two examples from the BBC’s 2007 ‘Abolition Season’: Congo: White King,Red Rubber, Black Death, written and directed by Peter Bate, which first aired in February 2004, and Simon Schama’s Rou…
Televising History
This volume brings together scholars from across Europe to critically examine TV history programming in a period of political, economic and cultural change. They look at links between programming and
History on British Television
The think-tank of American cultural studies
History on Television
In recent years non-fiction history programmes have flourished on television. This interdisciplinary study of history programming identifies and examines different genres employed by producers and tracks their commissioning, production, marketing and distribution histories. With comparative references to other European nations and North America, the authors focus on British history programming over the last two decades and analyse the relationshi…
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