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“Stephen Glynn has a thoroughbred pedigree in the field of sport in British cinema, and The British Horseracing Film is an odds-on favourite to be another winner. Written with verve and vigour, this gallop through a hitherto unknown subject is also good fun to read. I recommend all film and turf enthusiasts to take a punt.” —James Chapman, Professor of Film Studies at the University of Leicester, UK, and editor of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television This book constitutes the first full volume dedicated to an academic analysis of horseracing in British cinema. Through comprehensive contextual histories of film production and reception, together with detailed textual analysis, this book explores the aesthetic and emotive power of the enduringly popular horseracing genre, its ideologically-inflected landscape and the ways in which horse owners and riders, bookmakers and punters have been represented on British screen. The films discussed span from the 1890s to the present day and include silent shorts, quota quickies and big-budget biopics. A work of social and film history, The British Horseracing Film demonstrates how the so-called “sport of kings” functions as an accessible institutional structure through which to explore cinematic discussions about the British nation—but also, and equally, national approaches to British cinema. .

Motion pictures --- Motion pictures—Great Britain. --- Ethnology—Europe. --- British Cinema and TV. --- British Culture.

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This open access book provides a detailed exploration of the British media coverage of the press reform debate that arose from the News of the World phone hacking scandal and the Leveson Inquiry. Gathering data from a content analysis of 870 news articles, Ogbebor shows how journalists cover debates on media policy and illustrates the impact of their coverage on democracy. Through this analysis, the book contributes to knowledge of paradigm repair strategies; public sphere; gatekeeping theory; the concept of journalism as an interpretive community; political economy of the press; as well as the neoliberal and social democratic interpretations of press freedom. Providing insight into factors inhibiting and aiding the role of the news media as a democratic public sphere, it will be a valuable resource for the press, media reform activists, members of the public, and academics in the fields of journalism, politics and law.

Journalism. --- Ethnology—Europe. --- Mass media—Political aspects. --- British Culture. --- Media Policy. --- Writing (Authorship) --- Literature --- Publicity --- Fake news --- Journalism --- British Culture --- Media Policy --- Media Policy and Politics --- Leveson Inquiry --- News of the World --- Phone hacking --- Phone hacking scandal --- Media policy --- Media and democracy --- Journalistic metadiscourse --- open access --- Media studies: Journalism --- Media, entertainment, information & communication industries --- Cultural studies --- Media studies

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This book assesses the extent to which British news organizations gave exposure and credence to different political interpretations of economics and business news in the decade before the 2008 Financial Crisis. Through the content analysis of some 1,600 news items, this study provides compelling empirical evidence to inform often theoretical debates about neoliberal assumptions in the media. In each of the three pre-2008 case studies – economic globalization, private finance and public services, and Tesco – Merrill finds that the Telegraph, The Times, the Sunday Times and, to varying extents, the Guardian-Observer and the BBC gave limited exposure and credence to ideas from the left of the political spectrum. As such, he builds an important comparative picture of economic, business and financial journalism in the period before the defining event of the decade, the effects of which continue to resonate.

Journalism, Commercial. --- Business journalism --- Commercial journalism --- Economic journalism --- Financial journalism --- Financial news --- Journalism --- Journalism, Economic --- Trade journalism --- Commerce --- Journalism. --- Ethnology-Europe. --- Business enterprises-Finance. --- British Culture. --- Business Finance. --- Writing (Authorship) --- Literature --- Publicity --- Fake news --- Ethnology—Europe. --- Business enterprises—Finance.

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'The key idea of this book is to reevaluate the rise of the British novel from Defoe to Dickens by reading it alongside early Black Atlantic writings from Equiano to Seacole. Elahe Haschemi Yekani profoundly argues that the rise of bourgeois regimes of affect – from 18th century sentimentalism all the way to the heteronormative model of the Victorian family which still haunts us today – was neither a national, nor a white project, but deeply invested and entangled in transatlantic slavery and its aftermath. Compellingly argued, and beautifully written.' - Lars Eckstein, Professor of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, University of Potsdam, Germany. 'Familial Feeling provides a necessary corrective to the narrowly defined canon of great British Literature. Haschemi Yekani makes us rethink the structures that gird British literary epistemologies and opens our eyes to changes long past due. Familial Feeling is not only required reading for everyone who reads in the British literary tradition, it is also a compelling, nuanced inquiry into the construction of knowledge itself.' - Michelle M. Wright, Longstreet Professor of English, Emory University, USA This open access book discusses British literature as part of a network of global entangled modernities and shared aesthetic concerns, departing from the retrospective model of a postcolonial “writing back” to the centre. Accordingly, the narrative strategies in the texts of early Black Atlantic authors, like Equiano, Sancho, Wedderburn, and Seacole, and British canonical novelists, such as Defoe, Sterne, Austen, and Dickens, are framed as entangled tonalities. Via their engagement with discourses on slavery, abolition, and imperialism, these texts shaped an understanding of national belonging as a form of familial feeling. This study thus complicates the “rise of the novel” framework and British middle-class identity formation from a transnational perspective combining approaches in narrative studies with postcolonial and queer theory.

Literature, Modern—18th century. --- Literature, Modern—19th century. --- Critical criminology. --- Ethnology—Europe. --- Eighteenth-Century Literature. --- Nineteenth-Century Literature. --- Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime. --- British Culture. --- Radical criminology --- Criminology --- Eighteenth-Century Literature --- Nineteenth-Century Literature --- Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime --- British Culture --- Race and Ethnicity Studies --- Literature and Cultural Studies --- Postcolonial Literature --- Black Atlantic Writing --- The British Novel --- Open Access --- Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 --- Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 --- Crime & criminology --- Cultural studies

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'Journalists and media practitioners worldwide should read this significant book on suicide. Ann Luce draws on an insightful media analysis of the tragic 2008 deaths by suicide at Bridgend in South Wales, and on her own journalistic practice, to explore the social, cultural and ethical dimensions of this continuing global health issue. This important work is a timely reminder of the responsibilities of the media in health reporting and communication. – Emeritus Professor R. Warwick Blood, University of Canberra, Australia. 'The Bridgend Suicides offers a compelling account of how local press reporting of a succession of suicides by children and young people in Bridgend in 2008, created a feeding frenzy in national and international news media. Ann Luce, a journalist turned academic, offers a meticulously detailed, rare and extremely valuable case study of journalists’ framing of suicide, newspapers’ sensationalist coverage, and how both militate against public understanding of this significant issue for health and social policy. Written with compassion and academic rigour, The Bridgend Suicides is an important book for students, scholars and lay readers alike. Its contribution to the literatures of Journalism and Media Studies is substantial. It risks becoming a classic text; and deservedly so. – Professor Bob Franklin, The Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Wales. This in depth analysis looks at how suicide was represented in the British press when 20 young people between the ages of 15 and 29 took their own lives in the South Wales Borough of Bridgend in 2008. The chapters highlight specific categories of description that journalists use to explain suicide to their readers. The study also examines the discourses that emerged around suicide that continue to perpetuate stigma and shame when suicide occurs today. Using her own experience of having lost a loved one to suicide, coupled with original research, the author gives a very frank explanation of why suicide is not accepted in society today. .

Culture --- Ethnology --- Communication. --- Journalism. --- Cultural and Media Studies. --- Media Studies. --- British Culture. --- Study and teaching. --- Europe. --- Suicide --- Press coverage --- Killing oneself --- Self-killing --- Death --- Right to die --- Causes --- Ethnology-Europe. --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology --- Ethnology—Europe. --- Writing (Authorship) --- Literature --- Publicity --- Fake news