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Informationen zum Autor Neil Blain is Professor Emeritus of Communications at the University of Stirling. His publications include Media, Monarchy and Power (with Hugh O'Donnell), Sport, Media, Culture: Local and Global Dimensions and The Media in Scotland (co-edited with David Hutchison). David Hutchison has published in the fields of theatre, media policy and journalism. From 2010-2014 he was chair of Regional Screen Scotland. He is Honorary Professor of Media Policy at Glasgow Caledonian University. Klappentext This book brings together academics, writers and politicians to explore the range and nature of the media in Scotland. The book includes chapters on the separate histories of the press, broadcasting and cinema, on the representation and construction of Scotland, the contemporary communications environment, and the languages used in the media. Other chapters consider television drama, soap opera, broadcast comedy, gender, the media and politics, race and ethnicity, gender, popular music, sport and new technology, the place of Gaelic, and current issues in screen fiction.The book offers a comprehensive picture of the media in Scotland and is the first to do so. It raises a number of important questions about how Scotland presents itself at home and abroad as well as analyzing questions of politics, economics and governance. Among the contributors are David Bruce, Myra Macdonald, Brian McNair, Hugh O'Donnell, Mike Russell, Philip Schlesinger and Brian Wilson.Neil Blain is Chair and Head of Department of Film and Media Studies, University of Stirling.David Hutchison is Research Fellow in Media Policy, Glasgow Caledonian University. Zusammenfassung A comprehensive study of the media in Scotland. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionFRAMING THE DISCUSSION1 Neil Blain and Kathryn Burnett: An unwon cause: the struggle to represent Scotland2 John Corbett: Scots, English and Community languages in the media3 Philip Schlesinger: Communications policyTHE HISTORICAL CONTEXT4 David Hutchison: The history of the press5 David Bruce: The history of film and cinema6 Maggie Sweeney: Broadcasting: from birth to devolution and beyondSCREEN AND SOUND7 John R. Cook: Three ring circus: television drama and for Scotland8 Hugh O'Donnell: 'Nae bevvying, nae skiving': language andcommunity in the Scottish soap opera9 Ian Mowatt: Broadcast comedy10 Sarah Neely: Contemporary Scottish cinema11 Ken Garner: Radio and popular musicTHEMES AND FUTURES12 Jane Sillars and Myra Macdonald: Gender, spaces, changes:emergent identities in a Scotland in transition13 Anthea Irwin: Race and ethnicity in the media14 Mike Cormack: Gaelic, the media and Scotland15 Brian McNair: The Scottish media and politics16 Brian Wilson: A view from Westminster17 Michael Russell: A view from Holyrood18 Richard Haynes and Raymond Boyle: Media sportSelect BibliographyNotes on Contributors...
