Charlotte Brunsdon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3692970 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charlotte Brunsdon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charlotte |
| FAMILY NAME | Brunsdon |
| SIGNATURE | BRUNSDON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 138 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Televising of the English Landscape
The 1972 BBC Horizon programme, The Making of the English Landscape, is based on the work of the eminent scholar, W. G. Hoskins. Hoskins's book of that name, first published in 1955, is acknowledged as a pioneering study of the historical evolution of the English landscape. The Horizon programme is the first foray into the filming of Hoskins's ideas and was followed by two well-received series, Landscapes of England (1976, 1978). Hoskins's view i…
Modalities of London’s Past in Film and Television
London is an old city, a pre-cinematic city, and its oldness, and particularly its Victorian-ness, has formed a persistent strand in its cinematic and televisual embodiments. There are some long histories here that scholarship has addressed in different ways, recruiting past Londons to a range of other analyses. Rather than survey old Londons in film and television, this article uses detailed textual analysis to explore the ways in which the past…
The New Northern Ireland as a Crime Scene
This article explores the increased attractiveness of a ‘post-conflict’ Belfast as a television setting for British television police series. The Fall (2013, 2016), Bloodlands (2021) and Marcella (2021) are all set in Belfast, while most of the hit series Line of Duty (2012–) has been filmed in Northern Ireland. How do these new Belfast-set crime dramas negotiate the tropes and iconography of twentieth-century Troubles Belfast, while also partici…
Writings on Media
Writings on Media gathers more than twenty of Stuart Hall's media analyses, from scholarly essays such as “Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse” (1973) to other writings addressed to wider publics. Hall explores the practices of news photography, the development of media and cultural studies, the changing role of television, and how the nation imagines itself through popular media. He attends to Britain's imperial history and the pol…
This is not a cinema’
This is not a cinema', proclaims the screen in my local Vue cinema in 2017, just before the main feature is shown. This declaration is followed by footage of sports, opera and music festivals, and the claim of a new, plural identity, 'This is big screen entertainment', which is spelled out in words and images as 'Big screen theatre', 'Big screen sports', 'Big screen opera' and 'Big screen festival'. This campaign is a branding ident with a differ…
Council House Art
Towards the end of March 2019, after visiting an exhibition of painting in Bath, a musical in Sheffield and a film in Birmingham, I realized that, quite inadvertently, I had been to see three major pieces of council house art in that grimly comic month when British political life was dominated by the run-up to the original Brexit deadline. Away from the febrile atmosphere of the news, I had enjoyed some really serious, accomplished art which offe…
On Being Made History
This essay offers some reflections on the heritage of cultural studies prompted by a conference held at Birmingham University in June 2014. The conference, called CCCS50, was mounted as part of a two-year research project into the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) which is (state) funded by the British Arts and Humanities Research Council. It was scheduled to mark 50 years since the founding of the CCCS by Richard Hoggart in 1964. S…
Text and audience
The serial form has an international, multi-media history. Television serials, distinguished internationally by their viewer loyalty, have proved themselves an indispensable element in most broadcasting economies. Soap opera, in Britain, has, as a genre, a very powerful metaphorical existence, even though we have no equivalent of daytime North American soaps. In Britain, with its long tradition of audience-improving public service broad-casting, …
Television crime series, women police, and fuddy-duddy feminism
This essay argues that Prime Suspect has become a canonical text for feminist television studies and that Helen Mirren's performance of Lynda La Plante's creation has provided an influential template for television, and the broader culture, to imagine what a senior female police officer is like. So Jane Tennison is important not only within the depicted world of the "canteen culture" of the police in Prime Suspect, but also within the broader con…
Television Criticism and the Transformation of the Archive
I have always thought that the title of this journal indicated a certain lack of confidence about television, and notice that ‘television’ has disappeared completely in the anniversary invitation to contribute a piece on ‘My Media Studies’. This invitation encourages the programmatic, the manifesto, and the speculative. Instead, I want to employ the anecdotal to reflect in on the way in which technologies of the future (or, actually, in this case…
The Nationwide Television Studies
This book brings together for the first time David Morley and Charlotte Brunsdon's classic texts, Everyday Television: Nationwide and The Nationwide Audience. Originally published in 1978 and 1980 these two research projects combine innovative textual readings and audience analysis of the BBC's current affairs programme Nationwide. In a specially written introduction the authors trace the history of the original Nationwide project and clarify the…
Lifestyling Britain
1990s British terrestrial television saw a marked increase in lifestyle programming. Previously associated with daytime television, programmes on cooking, home decoration, fashion and gardening began to dominate the 8-9 early evening slot to considerable critical commentary. This article outlines the social and televisual factors relevant to this slot, while also posing questions about method in television studies. The history of hobby and leisur…
Factual entertainment on British television
This article reports on a collective project by the Midlands Television Research Group into the changing character of weekday evening programming in the 1990s on British terrestrial television between 8.00 and 9.00. Over the decade, there has been a growth in ‘factual entertainment’ and a decrease in analytic documentary, situation comedy and variety. Factual entertainment comprises hybrid genres such as ‘docu-soaps’, CCTV footage-based programme…
The Feminist, the Housewife, and the Soap Opera
This title traces the history of the feminist engagement with soap opera, using a wide range of sources from programme publicity to interviews with key soap-opera scholars. The book reveals that feminist scholarship on soap opera was a significant site in which the identity ‘feminist intellectual’ was produced in dialogue with her imagined other, the soap-opera-watching housewife. The book integrates personal autobiographical accounts within a br…
Identity in Feminist Television Criticism
Women Watching Television
Women Watching Television
Factual entertainment on British television
This article reports on a collective project by the Midlands Television Research Group into the changing character of weekday evening programming in the 1990s on British terrestrial television between 8.00 and 9.00. Over the decade, there has been a growth in ‘factual entertainment’ and a decrease in analytic documentary, situation comedy and variety. Factual entertainment comprises hybrid genres such as ‘docu-soaps’, CCTV footage-based programme…
The Nationwide Television Studies
This book brings together for the first time David Morley and Charlotte Brunsdon's classic texts, Everyday Television: Nationwide and The Nationwide Audience. Originally published in 1978 and 1980 these two research projects combine innovative textual readings and audience analysis of the BBC's current affairs programme Nationwide. In a specially written introduction the authors trace the history of the original Nationwide project and clarify the…
Women Watching Television
Women Watching Television
Lifestyling Britain
1990s British terrestrial television saw a marked increase in lifestyle programming. Previously associated with daytime television, programmes on cooking, home decoration, fashion and gardening began to dominate the 8-9 early evening slot to considerable critical commentary. This article outlines the social and televisual factors relevant to this slot, while also posing questions about method in television studies. The history of hobby and leisur…
Television crime series, women police, and fuddy-duddy feminism
This essay argues that Prime Suspect has become a canonical text for feminist television studies and that Helen Mirren's performance of Lynda La Plante's creation has provided an influential template for television, and the broader culture, to imagine what a senior female police officer is like. So Jane Tennison is important not only within the depicted world of the "canteen culture" of the police in Prime Suspect, but also within the broader con…
Identity in Feminist Television Criticism
Television Criticism and the Transformation of the Archive
I have always thought that the title of this journal indicated a certain lack of confidence about television, and notice that ‘television’ has disappeared completely in the anniversary invitation to contribute a piece on ‘My Media Studies’. This invitation encourages the programmatic, the manifesto, and the speculative. Instead, I want to employ the anecdotal to reflect in on the way in which technologies of the future (or, actually, in this case…
Writings on Media
Writings on Media gathers more than twenty of Stuart Hall's media analyses, from scholarly essays such as “Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse” (1973) to other writings addressed to wider publics. Hall explores the practices of news photography, the development of media and cultural studies, the changing role of television, and how the nation imagines itself through popular media. He attends to Britain's imperial history and the pol…
Women Watching Television
Women Watching Television
Identity in Feminist Television Criticism
The Feminist, the Housewife, and the Soap Opera
This title traces the history of the feminist engagement with soap opera, using a wide range of sources from programme publicity to interviews with key soap-opera scholars. The book reveals that feminist scholarship on soap opera was a significant site in which the identity ‘feminist intellectual’ was produced in dialogue with her imagined other, the soap-opera-watching housewife. The book integrates personal autobiographical accounts within a br…
Factual entertainment on British television
This article reports on a collective project by the Midlands Television Research Group into the changing character of weekday evening programming in the 1990s on British terrestrial television between 8.00 and 9.00. Over the decade, there has been a growth in ‘factual entertainment’ and a decrease in analytic documentary, situation comedy and variety. Factual entertainment comprises hybrid genres such as ‘docu-soaps’, CCTV footage-based programme…
Lifestyling Britain
1990s British terrestrial television saw a marked increase in lifestyle programming. Previously associated with daytime television, programmes on cooking, home decoration, fashion and gardening began to dominate the 8-9 early evening slot to considerable critical commentary. This article outlines the social and televisual factors relevant to this slot, while also posing questions about method in television studies. The history of hobby and leisur…
The Nationwide Television Studies
This book brings together for the first time David Morley and Charlotte Brunsdon's classic texts, Everyday Television: Nationwide and The Nationwide Audience. Originally published in 1978 and 1980 these two research projects combine innovative textual readings and audience analysis of the BBC's current affairs programme Nationwide. In a specially written introduction the authors trace the history of the original Nationwide project and clarify the…
Television Criticism and the Transformation of the Archive
I have always thought that the title of this journal indicated a certain lack of confidence about television, and notice that ‘television’ has disappeared completely in the anniversary invitation to contribute a piece on ‘My Media Studies’. This invitation encourages the programmatic, the manifesto, and the speculative. Instead, I want to employ the anecdotal to reflect in on the way in which technologies of the future (or, actually, in this case…
Television crime series, women police, and fuddy-duddy feminism
This essay argues that Prime Suspect has become a canonical text for feminist television studies and that Helen Mirren's performance of Lynda La Plante's creation has provided an influential template for television, and the broader culture, to imagine what a senior female police officer is like. So Jane Tennison is important not only within the depicted world of the "canteen culture" of the police in Prime Suspect, but also within the broader con…
Text and audience
The serial form has an international, multi-media history. Television serials, distinguished internationally by their viewer loyalty, have proved themselves an indispensable element in most broadcasting economies. Soap opera, in Britain, has, as a genre, a very powerful metaphorical existence, even though we have no equivalent of daytime North American soaps. In Britain, with its long tradition of audience-improving public service broad-casting, …
On Being Made History
This essay offers some reflections on the heritage of cultural studies prompted by a conference held at Birmingham University in June 2014. The conference, called CCCS50, was mounted as part of a two-year research project into the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) which is (state) funded by the British Arts and Humanities Research Council. It was scheduled to mark 50 years since the founding of the CCCS by Richard Hoggart in 1964. S…
This is not a cinema’
This is not a cinema', proclaims the screen in my local Vue cinema in 2017, just before the main feature is shown. This declaration is followed by footage of sports, opera and music festivals, and the claim of a new, plural identity, 'This is big screen entertainment', which is spelled out in words and images as 'Big screen theatre', 'Big screen sports', 'Big screen opera' and 'Big screen festival'. This campaign is a branding ident with a differ…
Council House Art
Towards the end of March 2019, after visiting an exhibition of painting in Bath, a musical in Sheffield and a film in Birmingham, I realized that, quite inadvertently, I had been to see three major pieces of council house art in that grimly comic month when British political life was dominated by the run-up to the original Brexit deadline. Away from the febrile atmosphere of the news, I had enjoyed some really serious, accomplished art which offe…
Writings on Media
Writings on Media gathers more than twenty of Stuart Hall's media analyses, from scholarly essays such as “Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse” (1973) to other writings addressed to wider publics. Hall explores the practices of news photography, the development of media and cultural studies, the changing role of television, and how the nation imagines itself through popular media. He attends to Britain's imperial history and the pol…
The New Northern Ireland as a Crime Scene
This article explores the increased attractiveness of a ‘post-conflict’ Belfast as a television setting for British television police series. The Fall (2013, 2016), Bloodlands (2021) and Marcella (2021) are all set in Belfast, while most of the hit series Line of Duty (2012–) has been filmed in Northern Ireland. How do these new Belfast-set crime dramas negotiate the tropes and iconography of twentieth-century Troubles Belfast, while also partici…
The Televising of the English Landscape
The 1972 BBC Horizon programme, The Making of the English Landscape, is based on the work of the eminent scholar, W. G. Hoskins. Hoskins's book of that name, first published in 1955, is acknowledged as a pioneering study of the historical evolution of the English landscape. The Horizon programme is the first foray into the filming of Hoskins's ideas and was followed by two well-received series, Landscapes of England (1976, 1978). Hoskins's view i…
Modalities of London’s Past in Film and Television
London is an old city, a pre-cinematic city, and its oldness, and particularly its Victorian-ness, has formed a persistent strand in its cinematic and televisual embodiments. There are some long histories here that scholarship has addressed in different ways, recruiting past Londons to a range of other analyses. Rather than survey old Londons in film and television, this article uses detailed textual analysis to explore the ways in which the past…
Sociology (11 works) · Art (10 works) · Media studies (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Visual arts (8 works) · Media Studies and Communication (7 works) · History (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (5 works)