Gill Branston
Biographic Data
| ID | 4929175 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gill Branston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gill |
| FAMILY NAME | Branston |
| SIGNATURE | BRANSTON G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Apocalyptic imaginings
The Media Student's Book
The Media Student's Book is a comprehensive introduction for students of media studies. It covers all the key topics and provides a detailed, lively and accessible guide to concepts and debates. Now in its fifth edition, this bestselling textbook has been thoroughly revised, re-ordered and updated, with many very recent examples and expanded coverage of the most important issues currently facing media studies. It is structured in three main parts…
News, Gender and Power
How do gender relations affect the practice of journalism? Despite the star status accorded to some women reporters, and the dramatic increase in the number of women working in journalism, why do men continue to occupy most senior management positions? And why do female readers, viewers and listeners remain as elusive as ever? 'News, Gender and Power' addresses the pressing questions of how gender shapes the forms, practice, institutions and audi…
September 11th, As We Now Call Them
Infotainment: A Twilight zone
The article considers current uses of the terms ‘infotainment’ and ‘tabloid TV in relation to contemporary British media and debates or panics around its Americanization; British Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) traditions; the relationship of information and entertainment in formal education; and postmodernist celebrations of the collapsing of such categories. It tries to separate and understand historically what have so far been three major ar…
TV as Institution
Journal Article TV as Institution Get access Gill Branston Gill Branston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 25, Issue 2, March/April 1984, Pages 85–94, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/25.2.85 Published: 01 March 1984
The Media Student's Book
The Media Student's Book is a comprehensive introduction for students of media studies. It covers all the key topics and provides a detailed, lively and accessible guide to concepts and debates. Now in its fifth edition, this bestselling textbook has been thoroughly revised, re-ordered and updated, with many very recent examples and expanded coverage of the most important issues currently facing media studies. It is structured in three main parts…
TV as Institution
Journal Article TV as Institution Get access Gill Branston Gill Branston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 25, Issue 2, March/April 1984, Pages 85–94, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/25.2.85 Published: 01 March 1984
TV as Institution
Journal Article TV as Institution Get access Gill Branston Gill Branston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 25, Issue 2, March/April 1984, Pages 85–94, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/25.2.85 Published: 01 March 1984
Infotainment: A Twilight zone
The article considers current uses of the terms ‘infotainment’ and ‘tabloid TV in relation to contemporary British media and debates or panics around its Americanization; British Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) traditions; the relationship of information and entertainment in formal education; and postmodernist celebrations of the collapsing of such categories. It tries to separate and understand historically what have so far been three major ar…
News, Gender and Power
How do gender relations affect the practice of journalism? Despite the star status accorded to some women reporters, and the dramatic increase in the number of women working in journalism, why do men continue to occupy most senior management positions? And why do female readers, viewers and listeners remain as elusive as ever? 'News, Gender and Power' addresses the pressing questions of how gender shapes the forms, practice, institutions and audi…
September 11th, As We Now Call Them
The Media Student's Book
The Media Student's Book is a comprehensive introduction for students of media studies. It covers all the key topics and provides a detailed, lively and accessible guide to concepts and debates. Now in its fifth edition, this bestselling textbook has been thoroughly revised, re-ordered and updated, with many very recent examples and expanded coverage of the most important issues currently facing media studies. It is structured in three main parts…
Apocalyptic imaginings
Media Studies and Communication (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (2 works) · History (2 works) · 930.1 (1 works) · Academic institution (1 works)