John Ellis

Biographic Data

ID3674318
NAMEJohn Ellis
GIVEN NAMESJohn
FAMILY NAMEEllis
SIGNATUREELLIS J
AFFILIATIONSRoyal Holloway University of London
ORCID0000-0002-2499-6661
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS76
TOTAL CITATIONS108
AUTHOR COUNT76
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1775
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX5

  • How documentaries mark themselves out from fiction: A genre-based approach

    Open AccessJohn EllisARTICLEStudies in Documentary Film2021

    Assessments of the truthfulness or otherwise of documentaries are best understood as genre conventions which vary historically. Genre conventions are shared between audiences, filmmakers and institutions. Beliefs about the acceptable use of fictional techniques in documentary storytelling, particularly in television, are subject to occasional public controversies. The move from photographic to digital processes underlay one such controversy at th…

  • Provocations, I: What do we need in a crisis? Broadcast TV

    Open AccessJohn EllisARTICLECritical Studies in Television…2020Cited by: 3References: 5

  • Filming for Television: How a 16mm Film Crew Worked Together

    Open AccessJohn EllisARTICLEVIEW Journal of European…2019

    A media archaeology project reveals how film crews worked together. By reuniting analogue equipment with the professionals who used to use it, the ADAPT project is able to unpack the professional routines and relationships of both people and technology that are at the core of television production. This detailed study of a film crew setting up 16mm equipment reveals the constraints and affordances that defined analogue television material. To stu…

  • Did Grace Kelly Shed a Tear: The Monegasque Royal Wedding as a Disruptive Television Event

    Open AccessJohn EllisARTICLEVIEW Journal of European…2018

    Early television reveals the radical nature of the new medium as well as many of its affordances that were later rejected. The coverage of the Monegasque Royal Wedding of Prince Rainier of Monaco and GraceKelly exposes the differences between cinema newsreels and live TV, and how, even at a public event, TVcould invade the personal space of its subjects. Like a detective, the author reconstructs how this historical event was covered by film and T…

  • Stories: Screen Narrative in the Digital Era

    Open AccessIain Christie, Ian Christie et al.BOOKStories2018References: 13

    Stories are perceived as central to modern life. Not only in narrative entertainment media, such as television, cinema, theater, but also in social media. Telling/having "a story" is widely deemed essential, in business as well as in social life. Does this mark an intensification of what has always been part of human cultures; or has the realm of "story" expanded to dominate twenty-first century discourse? Addressing stories is an obvious priorit…

  • Against Deconstruction

    Open AccessJohn Ellis, John Martin EllisBOOKAgainst Deconstruction2018

  • Interview with Professor John Ellis

    Open AccessJohn EllisARTICLEGlobal Media and China2017

  • Between Human and Machine: The Operating System

    John EllisARTICLEJournal of Contemporary Archaeology2015

    This paper argues for an approach to the archaeology of technology that examines how skilled practitioners use technologies, using as an example “simulations” which reunite retired equipment with the people who used to use it and film the encounter. It proposes the metaphor of the “operating system” to highlight the mutual adaptation of human and machine in such circumstances, revealed through the filming of these encounters. An “operating system…

  • How to be in public: The Case of an Early Television Show

    John EllisARTICLECelebrity Studies2015Cited by: 2References: 15

    The process of image management, whether of celebrities or non-celebrities, involves attention to several different registers of communication at once. The act of appearing on television has always presented difficulties for ordinary people in managing these different ‘framings’ of their spontaneous behaviour. This is vividly demonstrated by the first ever Double Your Money programme on the newly opened British commercial channel ITN in 1955. The…

  • A New Model for Seeking Meaningful Redress for Victims of Church-related Sexual Assault

    John Ellis, John B Ellis et al.ARTICLECurrent Issues in Criminal Justice2014

    IntroductionIn March 2014, Case Study 8, a public hearing of the national Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse focused on John Ellis's experience both of the Catholic Church's Towards Healing protocol and of litigation. This article outlines some aspects of these avenues of seeking redress following John's abuse by a priest as a child. It also discusses the challenges involved in the development of what some church …

  • An Historical Account of Coffee: With an Engraving, and Botanical Description of the Tree

    Open AccessJohn EllisBOOKHistorical Account of Coffee2013

    This tract, which first appeared in 1774, considers the characteristics, cultivation and uses of the coffee plant. Its author, John Ellis (c.1710–76), was a botanist and zoologist who from 1770 to 1776 served as a London agent for the government of Dominica. Published in order to promote the prosperity of the island, the work reflects the difficulties faced by the coffee growers. Ellis begins by describing the flower and fruit of the coffee plant…

  • Correspondence of John Wallis (1616–1703), Vol. 3: October 1668–1671

    John Aubrey, Henry Oldenburg et al.BOOKCorrespondence of John Wallis,…2012

  • Is it Really Just an Image? Thoughts on a TV Format

    Open AccessJohn EllisARTICLECritical Studies in Television…2012

  • Interstitials: How the ‘Bits in Between’ Define the Programmes

    Open AccessJohn EllisCHAPTER2011

  • What are we expected to feel? Witness, textuality and the audiovisual

    John EllisARTICLEScreen2009Cited by: 4

    Digital technologies have laid bare the double nature of the photographic and recorded sound. Every time the ‘record’ button is pressed, a document is created. There is human intervention (someone presses a button), and a controllable technology creates an artefact, a document. Real events take place in front of the lens and the microphone; digital recorders create files that can be copied, dispatched around the world and extensively manipulated,…

  • The Performance on Television of Sincerely Felt Emotion

    Open AccessJohn EllisARTICLEThe Annals of the American…2009Cited by: 15References: 1

    The self-presentation of ordinary people on TV took some time to develop. An early game show from British ITV demonstrates the many pitfalls encountered in developing even the most basic of self-presentational codes. So the presentation of sincerely felt emotions did not develop as a style until the late 1980s with the changes in daytime talk and the growth of reality TV. The cult of sincerity, however, has had profound cultural effects, reaching…

  • How Preferences Have Corrupted Higher Education

    Open AccessJohn M Ellis, John EllisARTICLEAcademic Questions2008

    The first law of unintended consequences is that you can never know what they will be or how far they will reach. Professor Ellis examines the injuries American higher education has sustained through the unintended consequences of diversity. (Contains 4 footnotes.) Language: en

  • Stars as a Cinematic Phenomenon

    John EllisCHAPTERStardom and Celebrity2007

  • How serious is the damage

    Open AccessJohn M Ellis, John EllisARTICLEAcademic Questions2007

    W 'hen surveys of faculty tell us that politically right-of-center voices are now much reduced or even in certain areas largely absent, we can be sure that the academy is damaged in at least one respect: the campus political and social climate will be unrealistic. 1 Programs where this is central, such as political science and sociology, will be damaged most, but its effect will be felt throughout the humanities and the social sciences. That's ba…

  • J N Graham Ritchie

    Open AccessJohn EllisARTICLEProceedings of the Society of…2006

    All recent Fellows of the Society will remember Dr Graham Ritchie, whose death came as such a shock on 27 April 2005

  • Television news and the Social Contract

    John EllisCHAPTERCulture, Media, Language2003

  • What do we mean by Media Practice Education

    John EllisARTICLEJournal of Media Practice2000

    Changes in the television industry have simplified technological aspects and complicated business practice. Technological change has not however eliminated the need to teach the skills of programme-making which are, if anything, being pushed onto the formal education and training sector by the decline of traditional entry-level roles. This essay argues that it is not sufficient for the education sector to teach such skills alone. A glass ceiling …

  • Literary studies, then and now

    Open AccessJohn M Ellis, John EllisARTICLEAcademic Questions2000

  • Scheduling: The last creative act in television

    Open AccessJohn EllisARTICLEMedia Culture & Society2000Cited by: 10References: 1

    Scheduling is television's key management tool, defining the nature of broadcast output. Yet it has scarcely been studied. Using examples from British television, this article argues that scheduling is the key mechanism by which the structures of television reproduce themselves afresh, day after day. It is the point where the perceived habits and preferences of past viewing audiences govern the arrangement of future television, providing the basi…

  • Seeing Things: Television in the Age of Uncertainty

    John EllisBOOKSeeing Things2000

    Introduction witness - a new way of perceiving the world witness through the 20th century the first era of television - scarcity the second era of television - availability working through - television in the age of uncertainty working through and the videographic working through and the genres of television scheduling - where power lies in television Channel 4 - from offer-led to demand-led television the third era of television - plenty