Books.
- 1980: Communication Studies: An Introductory Reader (ed. with Jeremy Hawthorn), London: Edward Arnold, pp 244.
- 1984: 2nd Edition of above title with ten new items, revised text and commentaries, pp.218.
- 1989: 3rd Edition of above title with eleven new items, revised text and commentaries, pp.250.
- 1993: 4th Edition of above title with ten new items, new text and commentaries, pp. 289.
- 1986: Documentary and the Mass Media, (ed.) London: Edward Arnold (230 pp. with 5,000 word introductory essay).
- 1990: Nuclear Reactions: Form and Response in Public Issue Television (with K. Richardson and N. Fenton) Acamedia Research Monograph, London: John Libbey (124pp.).
- 1991: Popular Television in Britain: Studies in Cultural History, (ed). London: British Film Institute, (211 pages with 8,000 word introductory essay).
- 1991: Enterprise and Heritage:Crosscurrents of National Culture (ed. with Sylvia Harvey). London: Routledge (271 pages with 8,000 word introductory essay).
- 1995: Television Form and Public Address London: Arnold, (90,000 words 220 pages. Single author).
- 1996: The Art of Record: A Critical Introduction to Documentary (Single author; Manchester: Manchester University Press) 85,000 words, 206 pages.
- 1996: Television Times: A Reader (ed. with Sylvia Harvey) London: Routledge. (260 pages).
- 1997: International Media Research:A Critical Survey edited with Philip Schlesinger and Roger Silverstone) London:Routledge, (120,000 words, 250 pages).
- 1998: Studying Media: Problems of Theory and Method. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press). 190 pages. Peking University Press edition, 2007.
- 1999: Critical Ideas in Television Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press). 130 pages.
- 2003: Media and the Restyling of Politics (ed. With D. Pels) London: Sage. 210 pages
- 2005: New Challenges for Documentary (ed. with Alan Rosenthal). Manchester University Press.
- 2007: Public Issue Television: World in Action 1963-98. Manchester: Manchester University Press. (with P.Goddard and K.Richardson).
- 2011: Theorising Media: Power, Form and Subjectivity (Manchester University Press)
- 2012: Political Culture and Media Genre (with Kay Richardson and Katy Parry, Palgrave).
- 2018: Soundings: Documentary Film and the Listening Experience (With Geoffrey Cox, University of Huddersfield Press).
Contribution to books
- 1983: ‘Re-thinking Public Service Television’ in S. Blanchard and D. Morley (eds.) What’s This Channel (Fo(u)r? London: Comedia pp. 163-66 (2,000 words).
- 1983(2): ‘Textuality, Communication and Media Power’ in H. Davies and P. Walton (eds.) Language, Image, Media, Blackwell: Oxford, pp. 266-281 (7,000 words).
- 1984: ‘Criticism as Sociology: Reading the Media’ J. Hawthorn (ed.) Criticism and Critical Theory, London: Arnold, pp. 29-41 (8,000 words).
- 1985: ‘Olympic Myths’ in L. Masterman (ed.) Television Mythologies London: Comedia, pp. 58-62, (2,000 words).
- 1986: (with Kay Richardson), ‘The Documentary Viewer and the Discourse of Interpretation’ in Corner (ed.) Documentary and the Mass Media London: Arnold pp. 141-160 (8,000 words), Reprinted in J. Corner and J. Hawthorn (eds.) Communication Studies, Arnold 1993.
- 1987: (with D. Corner), ‘And Then Video’ in P. Simpson (ed.) Parents Talking Television, London: Comedia pp. 19-25 (2,500 words).
- 1991(1): (with Sylvia Harvey) ‘Mediating Tradition and Modernity: The Heritage/Enterprise Couplet’ in J. Corner and S. Harvey (eds.) Enterprise and Heritage: Crosscurrents of National Culture, London: Routledge. (9,000 words).pp.45-75.
- 1991(2): ‘Documentary Voices’ in J. Corner (ed.) Popular Television in Britain: Essays In Cultural History, London: British Film Institute, (8,500 words), pp. 42-59.
- 1991(3): ‘The Interview as Social Encounter in TV Documentary’ in P. Scannell (ed) Broadcast Talk, London: Sage (8,000 words) pp.31-47.
- 1991(4): ‘Meaning, Genre and Context: The Problematics of “Public Knowledge” in Recent Research’ in J. Curran and M. Gurevitch (eds.) Mass Media and Society (8,000 words).217-230.
- 1993: (with Kay Richardson) ‘Mediating the Environment: The Contingency of Meaning’ in in A. Hansen (ed.) The Media and the Environment (Leicester University Press). (5,000 words).
- 1994(1): ‘Mediating the Ordinary: Access and Television Form’ in M.Aldridge and N. (eds.) Controlling Broadcasting (Manchester University Press). (6,000 words).
- 1994(2): ‘Culture, Quality and Choice: The Re-Regulation of ITV 1989-91’ (with S.Harvey and K.Lury) in S.Hood (ed.) Behind the Screens (Lawrence and Wishart). pp.1-19 (7,000 words).
- 1996: ‘Reappraising Reception: Aims, Methods and Concepts’ in J. Curran and M. Gurevitch (eds.) Mass Media and Society (2nd edition) Edward Arnold. (10,000 words).
- 1996(2): ‘Social Change and Television Modality’ in Bergen Papers in Mediation and Knowledge, University of Bergen, Norway.
- 1997(1): Article entries (Death on the Rock, Cathy Home and Norman Swallow) for The Encylopedia of World Television. Ed. H Newcomb (Univ of Chicago/Fitzroy Dearborn). 2004 added ‘docusoap’.
- 1997(2): ‘’Quality’ and Culture in British Television’ In J. Gripsrud (ed) Broadcasting and Quality. Bergen University Working Papers. Norway.
- 1997(3): ‘Why Study Form?’ in A Briggs and P Cobley (eds) The Media:An Introduction London: Longman.238-249.
- 1998(1): ‘Television News and Economic Exposition’ in N. Gavin (ed), The Economy Media, and Public Knowledge. Leicester University Press. 53-70
- 1998(2): (with P. Goddard, K.Richardson and N.Gavin) ‘The Liverpool Economic News Project’ in N. Gavin (ed), The Economy, Media and Public Knowledge Leicester University Press. 9-37
- 1999(1): ‘British Television Dramadocumentary’ in A. Rosenthal (ed.) Why Docudrama? Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. 35-46.
- 1999(2): ‘Documentary’ in J. Gripsrud (ed.) Television and Common Knowledge. London: Routlege.173-184.
- 2000(1): ‘Visibility as Truth and Spectacle in TV Documentary Journalism’, in I. Bondebjerg (ed) Moving Images, Culture and the Mind. Luton: Luton University Press. 143-153.
- 2000(2): ‘Influence: The Contested Core of Media Research’ in J. Curran and M. Gurevitch (eds) Mass Media and Society. (third edition). London: Routledge. 376-397.
- 2000(3): ‘The Public, The Popular and Media Studies’ in G.Philo and D. Miller (eds.) Market Killing, London: Longman. 152-157.
- 2001(1): ‘Broadcast Journalism and Public Knowledge’. In D. Fleming (ed.).Formations. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 79-92.
- 2001(2): ‘Television: Duties and Pleasures’ in D. Morley and K. Robins (eds) British Culture:An Introduction. Oxford: OUP.
- 2001(3): ‘Documentary Studies’ (and 3 associated short articles) in G Creeber (ed) Television Genres London: British Film Institute.
2002
- Documentary Values’ in Ann Jerslev (ed.) Realism and ‘Reality’ in Film and Media. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press.
2003
- ‘Afterword: Framing the New’, in Holmes S. and Jermyn D. (eds.) Understanding Reality Television, Routledge.
2004
- ‘Foreword’ to E. Mathijs and J. Jones (eds) Big Brother International Wallflower Press.
- Articles on Sunday/Bloody Sunday, The Day After, Cathy Come Home in 50 Classic Television Programmes (ed. G Creeber) Arnold.
- ‘Adworlds’, reprint of chapter from Television Form and Public Address, in R. Allan and A. Hill Television Studies: A Reader. Routledge.
2005
- ‘Language and Documentary’ Contribution to Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics Elsevier.
- ‘Bill Nichols’ entry article in I. Aitkin (ed) Encylopedia of Documentary. Fitzroy Dearborn.
2006
- ‘Analysing Factual TV’ in G. Creeber (ed.) Tele-Visions, London: British Film Institute, 60-73.
- ‘The Visual Construction of Secondary Witness : Three case studies from Television’ in P. Hamilton (ed.) Visual Research Methods (Benchmark Studies in Social Research) London: Sage.
2007
- ‘Media, Power and Political Culture’ for E. Devereux (ed.) Media Debates (London: Sage). 211-230
- ‘The Cultural Politics of Archives’ in Ganz-Blaettler et al Heard-Seen: The use ofdigitalized archives for the Sciences Baden: Hier and Jetzt, 24-31
2008
- ‘Documentary Studies: Dimensions of Continuity and Transition’ in Rethinking Documentary (ed. Thomas Austin), McGraw Hill/Open University.
2009
- ‘Media Form’ (revised chapter) in P.Cobley and Albertazzi (eds) The Media: An Introduction, (Third Edition). Longman. 35-45
2010
- ‘The Antinomies of Regulation’, in J. Gripsrud and L. Wiebull (eds) European Media History and Contexts. (London: Intellect). 139-153
- ‘The Politics of Reality Television’ in Reel Politics (ed. L. Baruh and Hoon Park) Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 22-39
- ‘Once Upon a Time: Documentary and History’ in Televising History Gray and E. Bell London: Palgrave 13-27.
- ‘Critical Social Optics and the New Audio Visual Culture’ in J. Gripsrud Relocating Television. London: Routledge. 41-5
- ‘Promotion as Institutionalised Deception’ in M. Aroncyzk and D. Powers (eds.) Blowing up the Brand: Critical Perspectives on Promotional Culture. New York: Lang.
- ’49 Up’: Television biographical discourse and the idea of ‘life-time’ in Flow TV Kackman, M. eta al. (eds.), London and New York: Routledge.
- ‘Afterword’, in K. Voltmer and K. Brants (eds.) Political Communication in Postmodern Democracy. London: Palgrave.
2011
- ‘Genre and the mediation of Election Politics’ (With Kay Richardson and Katy Parry), in Political Communication in Britain: The Leader Debates, ed. D. Wring et al (Palgrave).
2012
- ‘Confronting Value’ in M. Bailey (ed.) Richard Hoggart: Culture and Critique. Critical, Cultural and Communication Press.
- ‘Temporality and Documentary’ in E Keightley (ed.) Time in Modernity. Palgrave.
- ‘The Utility of Fiction in Politics’ in Goring, Mitchell and Lothe (eds.)Each Other’s Yarns: Essays on Narrative and Critical Method Oslo:Novus Press.
- ‘The Uses of Media Research’ In Hovden and Knapskog (eds) Hunting High and Low Oslo: Scandinavian Academic Press.
2013
- ‘Deaths and Transfigurations’ in A Companion to Documentary (edited B. Winston) London: Routledge.
2014
- ‘System Down’, in G. Murdock and J. Gripsrud (eds) Money Talks. Bristol: Intellect.
- ‘Music and the Aesthetics of the Recorded World’ in Music and Sound in Documentary, ed Holly Rogers. Routledge.
2015
- ‘The Dream Machine: Television and Public Culture’, in S. Coleman, G. Moss and K. Parry Can the Media Serve Democracy. London: Palgrave.
- ‘Futures of Television’, in Conboy, M. and Steel J. (eds.) Routledge Companion to British Media History
- Chapter on ‘Popular Culture’ in G. Mazolini ed. The International Encyclopedia of Political Communication. Wiley-Blackwell
2017
- ‘Performing Class and Taste Through the Documentary Lens, in Deery and Press (eds) Media and Class, Routledge. 85-97.
- With Julie Firmstone ‘Reporting the Public: Discourses of Interpretation, Evaluation and Prediction’ in Firmstone and Ekstrom (eds) The Mediated Politics of Europe: A study in comparative discourse. Palgrave.
2018
- ‘Documentary Spectatorship and the Navigation of Difficulty’, in Cognitive Theory and Documentary Film, Brylla and Kramer (eds). Routledge. 59-73.
2021
- ‘Afterword’ to Santi, M. and Berner E. (eds) Music, Media, History. Bielfield: Verlag.
2022
- ‘Political News and the Celebrity Frame’ in Morrison, J. Birks, J. and Berry, M. (eds) The Routledge Companion to Political Journalism. Abingdon and New York.
2023
- with Dick Pels, ‘Media and the Restyling of Politics 20 Years On’, in J. Harsin (ed.) Rethinking Mediations of Post-Truth Politics and Trust. Routledge: Abingdon and New York. 34-42
Forthcoming
- ‘Tracking Engagement in Documentary Viewing: A Critical Retrospect’, in P. Dahlgren and A. Hill (eds)|Companion to Media Audiences. Routledge.
- ‘Saying More About Documentary: Notes on Formation, Continuity and Change in the Field of Study’ in K. Nash and D. Williams (eds). Handbook of Documentary. Intellect.