Andrew Tolson
Biographic Data
| ID | 640364 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Tolson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Tolson |
| SIGNATURE | TOLSON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 107 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Out is out and that’s it the people have spoken’: Uses of vox pops in UK TV news coverage of the Brexit referendum
This article analyses vox pops in British television news programmes during the 2016 EU referendum. It is informed by a data set of 383 vox pops across the three main terrestrial TV news programmes: the BBC and ITV’s News at Ten and Channel 4 News. A quantitative overview confirms two points made by [Greg Myers (2004). Matters of opinion: Talking about public issues. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, namely that in vox pops the majority of r…
Political Interviews: Pushing the Boundaries of ‘Neutralism’
Media Talk Shows
Proper football people’: Talking soccer on Sky Sports News
The history of television celebrity: A Discursive Approach
This article makes a critical contribution to recent discussions of television celebrity. In particular, the article argues against the use of ‘celebrity’ as a general concept (with, in some accounts, a 250-year history) – of which the ‘TV personality’ is a particular variant. The focus here is on specific meanings of ‘celebrity’ alongside other terms that have been used to define ‘media people’ on television. Taking as its case study the UK TV l…
Moments of truth
Media Talk and Political Elections in Europe and America
Moments of truth: Telling it like it is on The Jeremy Kyle Show
As Chapter 1 explains, contributions to this book are interested in exploring a discursive, rather than a generic, approach to understanding reality television. This chapter, which focuses on a UK talk show, is no exception. For if, as was common in its early years, reality TV is analysed generically as ‘factual television’ (Hill 2005) using ‘post-documentary’ formats (Corner 2000) to construct dramatic scenarios taken from raw recorded footage (…
Stuart Hanson, Andrew Tolson and Helen Wood Interview – 6 June 2011
[Hudson Vincent] I was hoping we could start with a conversation about the Centre itself. What brought you there in the first place? [Andrew Tolson] I was an undergraduate student of English at Bir
You'll need a miracle to win this election” (J. Paxman 2005): Interviewer assertiveness in UK general elections 1983–2010
‘I’m common and my talking is quite abrupt’ (Jade Goody): Language and Class in Celebrity Big Brother
We demanded grittier, dirtier, more offensive television and nowhere better can this be seen than on Big Brother ... Jade Goody epitomised such a hunger. Not Jade herself, but what we wanted Jade to do for the audience ... The producers ... had picked up that the audience’s appetite for uncomfortable, deg
Belligerent broadcasting and makeover television: Professional incivility in Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares
This article looks at the significance of the practices of ‘belligerent broadcasting’ in the popular ‘trouble-shooting’ business television programme Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, USA. Belligerent broadcasting is a broadcast style that offers as spectacle expressions of anger or impatience, or the exercise of intimidation, against an on-screen interlocutor. Focusing on the performances of Gordon Ramsay, the article analyses the management of on-sc…
A new authenticity? Communicative practices on YouTube
Recent discussion of some user-generated material on the Internet has argued that its ‘freshness’ and ‘spontaneity’ offers a new form of ‘authenticity’ in mediated communication. With a focus on YouTube, particularly where extensive use is made of the facility to post text comments on vlogs, it has been suggested that such activities reproduce the feel of ‘face-to-face communication’. Interestingly such accounts echo previous debates about broadc…
Television Discourse: Analysing Language in the Media by Nuria Lorenzo-Dus
Media Talk: Spoken Discourse on TV and Radio
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748618262); Over the past twenty years, a focus on broadcast talk has emerged as an innovative approach to studying the media. Adapting perspectives derived from Discourse and Conversation Analysis, this approach investigates distinctive forms of mediated speech on TV and radio. It provides original insights into the ways in which broadcasting stages 'discourse events' (interviews, debates, commentaries and …
Television Talk Shows: Discourse, Performance, Spectacle
Being Yourself: The Pursuit of Authentic Celebrity
This article examines some dimensions of the construction of contemporary celebrity. It looks at issues of image management, where the concern is to link the performance of celebrity to certain kinds of moral credibility, where the performance might be seen as `authentic'. These issues are examined in relation to the career of Geri Halliwell, in her attempts to reconstruct her celebrity image following her departure from the Spice Girls. Specific…
Some Thoughts on Generic Time: A Response to Ulrike Hanna Meinhof and Kay Richardson
Forms of visibility/contexts of display
Social surveillance and subjectification: The emergence of ‘Subculture’ in the work of Henry Mayhew
(1990). Social surveillance and subjectification: The emergence of ‘Subculture’ in the work of Henry Mayhew. Cultural Studies: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 113-127
Reconsidering Screen Studies
Journal Article Reconsidering Screen Studies Get access Andrew Tolson Andrew Tolson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 26, Issue 2, March-April 1985, Pages 60–65, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/26.2.60 Published: 01 March 1985
Anecdotal Television
Journal Article Anecdotal Television Get access Andrew Tolson Andrew Tolson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 26, Issue 2, March-April 1985, Pages 18–29, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/26.2.18 Published: 01 March 1985
The limits of masculinity: Male Identity and the Liberated Woman
"In by far the best book I have seen on this subject since Marcuse, Andrew Tolson examines the way in which schools, social work and work hierarchies, and the requirements of the economic order lock men in modes of thought and behavior which don't work any longer in their personal lives. His working-class boyhood gives the analysis a particularly valuable breadth, so that we see the new defensive insecurity is not confined to those men able to ar…
A new authenticity? Communicative practices on YouTube
Recent discussion of some user-generated material on the Internet has argued that its ‘freshness’ and ‘spontaneity’ offers a new form of ‘authenticity’ in mediated communication. With a focus on YouTube, particularly where extensive use is made of the facility to post text comments on vlogs, it has been suggested that such activities reproduce the feel of ‘face-to-face communication’. Interestingly such accounts echo previous debates about broadc…
Being Yourself: The Pursuit of Authentic Celebrity
This article examines some dimensions of the construction of contemporary celebrity. It looks at issues of image management, where the concern is to link the performance of celebrity to certain kinds of moral credibility, where the performance might be seen as `authentic'. These issues are examined in relation to the career of Geri Halliwell, in her attempts to reconstruct her celebrity image following her departure from the Spice Girls. Specific…
Belligerent broadcasting and makeover television: Professional incivility in Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares
This article looks at the significance of the practices of ‘belligerent broadcasting’ in the popular ‘trouble-shooting’ business television programme Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, USA. Belligerent broadcasting is a broadcast style that offers as spectacle expressions of anger or impatience, or the exercise of intimidation, against an on-screen interlocutor. Focusing on the performances of Gordon Ramsay, the article analyses the management of on-sc…
Media Talk: Spoken Discourse on TV and Radio
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748618262); Over the past twenty years, a focus on broadcast talk has emerged as an innovative approach to studying the media. Adapting perspectives derived from Discourse and Conversation Analysis, this approach investigates distinctive forms of mediated speech on TV and radio. It provides original insights into the ways in which broadcasting stages 'discourse events' (interviews, debates, commentaries and …
Out is out and that’s it the people have spoken’: Uses of vox pops in UK TV news coverage of the Brexit referendum
This article analyses vox pops in British television news programmes during the 2016 EU referendum. It is informed by a data set of 383 vox pops across the three main terrestrial TV news programmes: the BBC and ITV’s News at Ten and Channel 4 News. A quantitative overview confirms two points made by [Greg Myers (2004). Matters of opinion: Talking about public issues. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, namely that in vox pops the majority of r…
You'll need a miracle to win this election” (J. Paxman 2005): Interviewer assertiveness in UK general elections 1983–2010
Proper football people’: Talking soccer on Sky Sports News
Reconsidering Screen Studies
Journal Article Reconsidering Screen Studies Get access Andrew Tolson Andrew Tolson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 26, Issue 2, March-April 1985, Pages 60–65, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/26.2.60 Published: 01 March 1985
Anecdotal Television
Journal Article Anecdotal Television Get access Andrew Tolson Andrew Tolson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 26, Issue 2, March-April 1985, Pages 18–29, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/26.2.18 Published: 01 March 1985
The limits of masculinity: Male Identity and the Liberated Woman
"In by far the best book I have seen on this subject since Marcuse, Andrew Tolson examines the way in which schools, social work and work hierarchies, and the requirements of the economic order lock men in modes of thought and behavior which don't work any longer in their personal lives. His working-class boyhood gives the analysis a particularly valuable breadth, so that we see the new defensive insecurity is not confined to those men able to ar…
Reconsidering Screen Studies
Journal Article Reconsidering Screen Studies Get access Andrew Tolson Andrew Tolson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 26, Issue 2, March-April 1985, Pages 60–65, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/26.2.60 Published: 01 March 1985
Anecdotal Television
Journal Article Anecdotal Television Get access Andrew Tolson Andrew Tolson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 26, Issue 2, March-April 1985, Pages 18–29, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/26.2.18 Published: 01 March 1985
Forms of visibility/contexts of display
Social surveillance and subjectification: The emergence of ‘Subculture’ in the work of Henry Mayhew
(1990). Social surveillance and subjectification: The emergence of ‘Subculture’ in the work of Henry Mayhew. Cultural Studies: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 113-127
Some Thoughts on Generic Time: A Response to Ulrike Hanna Meinhof and Kay Richardson
Television Talk Shows: Discourse, Performance, Spectacle
Being Yourself: The Pursuit of Authentic Celebrity
This article examines some dimensions of the construction of contemporary celebrity. It looks at issues of image management, where the concern is to link the performance of celebrity to certain kinds of moral credibility, where the performance might be seen as `authentic'. These issues are examined in relation to the career of Geri Halliwell, in her attempts to reconstruct her celebrity image following her departure from the Spice Girls. Specific…
Media Talk: Spoken Discourse on TV and Radio
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748618262); Over the past twenty years, a focus on broadcast talk has emerged as an innovative approach to studying the media. Adapting perspectives derived from Discourse and Conversation Analysis, this approach investigates distinctive forms of mediated speech on TV and radio. It provides original insights into the ways in which broadcasting stages 'discourse events' (interviews, debates, commentaries and …
A new authenticity? Communicative practices on YouTube
Recent discussion of some user-generated material on the Internet has argued that its ‘freshness’ and ‘spontaneity’ offers a new form of ‘authenticity’ in mediated communication. With a focus on YouTube, particularly where extensive use is made of the facility to post text comments on vlogs, it has been suggested that such activities reproduce the feel of ‘face-to-face communication’. Interestingly such accounts echo previous debates about broadc…
Television Discourse: Analysing Language in the Media by Nuria Lorenzo-Dus
‘I’m common and my talking is quite abrupt’ (Jade Goody): Language and Class in Celebrity Big Brother
We demanded grittier, dirtier, more offensive television and nowhere better can this be seen than on Big Brother ... Jade Goody epitomised such a hunger. Not Jade herself, but what we wanted Jade to do for the audience ... The producers ... had picked up that the audience’s appetite for uncomfortable, deg
Belligerent broadcasting and makeover television: Professional incivility in Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares
This article looks at the significance of the practices of ‘belligerent broadcasting’ in the popular ‘trouble-shooting’ business television programme Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, USA. Belligerent broadcasting is a broadcast style that offers as spectacle expressions of anger or impatience, or the exercise of intimidation, against an on-screen interlocutor. Focusing on the performances of Gordon Ramsay, the article analyses the management of on-sc…
You'll need a miracle to win this election” (J. Paxman 2005): Interviewer assertiveness in UK general elections 1983–2010
Moments of truth
Media Talk and Political Elections in Europe and America
Moments of truth: Telling it like it is on The Jeremy Kyle Show
As Chapter 1 explains, contributions to this book are interested in exploring a discursive, rather than a generic, approach to understanding reality television. This chapter, which focuses on a UK talk show, is no exception. For if, as was common in its early years, reality TV is analysed generically as ‘factual television’ (Hill 2005) using ‘post-documentary’ formats (Corner 2000) to construct dramatic scenarios taken from raw recorded footage (…
Stuart Hanson, Andrew Tolson and Helen Wood Interview – 6 June 2011
[Hudson Vincent] I was hoping we could start with a conversation about the Centre itself. What brought you there in the first place? [Andrew Tolson] I was an undergraduate student of English at Bir
Media Talk Shows
Proper football people’: Talking soccer on Sky Sports News
The history of television celebrity: A Discursive Approach
This article makes a critical contribution to recent discussions of television celebrity. In particular, the article argues against the use of ‘celebrity’ as a general concept (with, in some accounts, a 250-year history) – of which the ‘TV personality’ is a particular variant. The focus here is on specific meanings of ‘celebrity’ alongside other terms that have been used to define ‘media people’ on television. Taking as its case study the UK TV l…
Political Interviews: Pushing the Boundaries of ‘Neutralism’
Out is out and that’s it the people have spoken’: Uses of vox pops in UK TV news coverage of the Brexit referendum
This article analyses vox pops in British television news programmes during the 2016 EU referendum. It is informed by a data set of 383 vox pops across the three main terrestrial TV news programmes: the BBC and ITV’s News at Ten and Channel 4 News. A quantitative overview confirms two points made by [Greg Myers (2004). Matters of opinion: Talking about public issues. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, namely that in vox pops the majority of r…
Sociology (19 works) · Media studies (14 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Art (10 works) · Media Studies and Communication (8 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works)