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The democratic role of campaign journalism: partisan representation and public participation (2009)
Journal Article
Birks, J. (2010). The democratic role of campaign journalism: partisan representation and public participation. Journalism Practice, 4(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/17512780903407437

Campaign journalism is a distinctive but under-researched form of editorialised news reporting that aims to influence politicians rather than inform voters. In this it diverges from liberal norms of social responsibility, but instead campaigning new... Read More about The democratic role of campaign journalism: partisan representation and public participation.

Trading Auntie: the exploitation and protection of intellectual property rights during the BBC’s monopoly years (2009)
Journal Article
Johnson, C. (2009). Trading Auntie: the exploitation and protection of intellectual property rights during the BBC’s monopoly years. New Review of Film and Television Studies, 7(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/17400300903307019

Most histories of British television date the emergence of a trade in programming to the mid- to late-1950s when recording technologies turned previously ephemeral programmes into exchangeable goods and ITV brought a commercial impetus to British bro... Read More about Trading Auntie: the exploitation and protection of intellectual property rights during the BBC’s monopoly years.

“Be patient, dear mother … wait for me”: the neo-infirmity film, female illness and contemporary cinema (2009)
Journal Article
Gallagher, M. (2009). “Be patient, dear mother … wait for me”: the neo-infirmity film, female illness and contemporary cinema. Feminist Media Studies, 9(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/14680770902814868

In social reality, illness and death occur in myriad ways, yet Hollywood films have historically preferred spectacular, violent death over realist depictions of the terminal stages of life. Yet an ever-growing number of popular films, which I term ne... Read More about “Be patient, dear mother … wait for me”: the neo-infirmity film, female illness and contemporary cinema.

Musical modernity and contested commemoration at the festival of remembrance, 1923-1927 (2009)
Journal Article
Mansell, J. G. (2009). Musical modernity and contested commemoration at the festival of remembrance, 1923-1927. Historical Journal, 52(2), 433-454. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X09007535

This article makes the case for incorporating music into the history of war commemoration in 1920s Britain by examining John Foulds's A World Requiem , performed at the British Legion's first Festivals of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall between... Read More about Musical modernity and contested commemoration at the festival of remembrance, 1923-1927.