John Corner

MEDIA RESEARCH

Email: corner494@btinternet.com

Publications (Books and contributions to Books)

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

  1. Documentary Values’ in Ann Jerslev (ed.) Realism and ‘Reality’ in Film and Media.                    Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press.

2003

  1. ‘Afterword: Framing the New’, in Holmes S. and Jermyn D. (eds.) Understanding  Reality Television, Routledge.

2004

  1. ‘Foreword’ to E. Mathijs and J. Jones (eds) Big Brother International Wallflower Press.
  2. Articles on Sunday/Bloody Sunday, The Day After, Cathy Come Home in 50 Classic Television Programmes (ed. G Creeber) Arnold.
  3. ‘Adworlds’, reprint of chapter from Television Form and Public Address, in R. Allan and A. Hill Television Studies: A Reader. Routledge.

2005

  1. ‘Language and Documentary’ Contribution to Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics Elsevier.
  2. ‘Bill Nichols’ entry article in I. Aitkin (ed) Encylopedia of Documentary. Fitzroy Dearborn.

2006

  1. ‘Analysing Factual TV’ in G. Creeber (ed.) Tele-Visions, London: British  Film Institute,  60-73.
  2. ‘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

  1. ‘Media, Power and Political Culture’ for E. Devereux (ed.) Media Debates (London: Sage). 211-230
  2. ‘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

  1. ‘Documentary Studies: Dimensions of Continuity and Transition’ in Rethinking Documentary (ed. Thomas Austin), McGraw Hill/Open University.

2009

  1. ‘Media Form’ (revised chapter)  in P.Cobley and Albertazzi (eds) The Media: An Introduction, (Third Edition). Longman. 35-45

2010

  1. ‘The Antinomies of Regulation’, in J. Gripsrud and L. Wiebull (eds) European Media History and Contexts. (London: Intellect). 139-153
  2. ‘The Politics of Reality Television’ in Reel Politics (ed. L. Baruh and Hoon Park) Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press,  22-39
  3. ‘Once Upon a Time: Documentary and History’ in Televising  History Gray and E. Bell London: Palgrave 13-27.
  4. ‘Critical Social Optics and the New Audio Visual Culture’ in J. Gripsrud  Relocating Television. London: Routledge. 41-5
  5. ‘Promotion as Institutionalised Deception’ in M. Aroncyzk and D. Powers (eds.) Blowing up the Brand: Critical Perspectives on Promotional Culture. New York: Lang.
  6. ’49 Up’: Television biographical discourse and the idea of ‘life-time’ in Flow TV Kackman, M. eta al. (eds.), London and New York: Routledge.
  7. ‘Afterword’, in K. Voltmer and K. Brants (eds.) Political Communication in Postmodern Democracy. London: Palgrave.

2011

  1. ‘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

  1. ‘Confronting Value’ in M. Bailey (ed.) Richard Hoggart: Culture and Critique. Critical, Cultural and Communication Press.
  2. ‘Temporality and Documentary’ in E Keightley (ed.) Time in Modernity. Palgrave.
  3. ‘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.
  4. ‘The Uses of Media Research’ In Hovden and Knapskog (eds) Hunting High and Low Oslo: Scandinavian Academic Press.

2013

  1. ‘Deaths and Transfigurations’  in A Companion to Documentary (edited B. Winston) London: Routledge.

2014

  1. ‘System Down’, in G. Murdock and J. Gripsrud (eds) Money Talks. Bristol: Intellect.
  2. ‘Music and the Aesthetics of the Recorded World’ in Music and Sound in Documentary, ed Holly Rogers. Routledge.

2015 

  1. ‘The Dream Machine: Television and Public Culture’, in S. Coleman, G. Moss and K. Parry Can the Media Serve Democracy. London: Palgrave.
  2. ‘Futures of Television’, in Conboy, M. and Steel J. (eds.) Routledge Companion to British Media History
  3. Chapter on ‘Popular Culture’ in G. Mazolini ed. The International Encyclopedia of Political Communication. Wiley-Blackwell

2017

  1. ‘Performing Class and Taste Through the Documentary Lens, in Deery and Press (eds) Media and Class, Routledge. 85-97.
  2. 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

  1. ‘Documentary Spectatorship and the Navigation of Difficulty’, in Cognitive Theory and Documentary Film, Brylla and Kramer (eds). Routledge. 59-73.

2021

  1. ‘Afterword’ to Santi, M. and Berner E. (eds) Music, Media, History. Bielfield: Verlag.

2022

  1. ‘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

  1. 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

  1. ‘Tracking Engagement in Documentary Viewing: A Critical Retrospect’, in P. Dahlgren and A. Hill (eds)|Companion to Media Audiences. Routledge.
  2. ‘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.