Brian W Winston

Misunderstanding Media

The Image of the Media

Hardware, Software: A Background Guide to the Study of the Mass Media

Misunderstanding Media

Working With Video: A Comprehensive Guide to the World of Video Production

Working With Video: A Comprehensive Guide to the World of Video Production

Claiming the Real: The Griersonian Documentary and Its Legitimations

Technologies of Seeing: Photography, Cinematography and Television

Brian Winst

Brian Winston was the first Lincoln Chair of Communications at the University of Lincoln, United Kingdom. He was a Pro Vice Chancellor for 2005-2006 and the...

Technologies of Seeing: Photography, Cinematography and Television

Why is the cinema 100 years old, and not 120 or 150 years old? Why do Kodak film stocks have such trouble capturing non-Caucasian skin tones? Why is high definition analog television not in every home sixteen years after it was introduced? Why did professionals wait thirty years and more before wide...

Claiming the Real: Documentary: Grierson and Beyond

Claiming the RealIIdescribes the origins,development and current stateof documentary cinema, and the social, political, industrial and ethical factorsthat determine its production. This new edition addresses the ethical quagmires, digital technologies and proliferating forms that have transformed do...

Fires Were Started (BFI Film Classics)

This work suggests that Humphrey Jennings' re-enacted documentary about the London Blitz, Fires Were Started, is an understated propaganda masterpiece.The bookprovides an account of how Jennings recaptured the reality of the Blitz for his cumbersome camera through a process of meticulous research.

Messages: Free Expression, Media and the West from Gutenberg to Google

Easy to read, and highly topical, Messages writes a history of mass communication in Europe and its outreaches, as a search for the origins of media forms from print and stage, to photography, film and broadcasting. Arguing that the development of the mass media has been an essential engine driving...

Bad News (Routledge Revivals) (Routledge Revivals: Bad News)

It is a commonly held belief that television news in Britain, on whatever channel, is more objective, more trustworthy, more neutral than press reporting. The illusion is exploded in this controversial study by the Glasgow University Media Group, originally published in 1976. The authors undertook a...

Media Technology and Society: A History From the Telegraph to the Internet

Challenging the popular myth of a present-day 'information revolution', Media Technology and Society is essential reading for anyone interested in the social impact of technological change. Winston argues that the development of new media forms, from the telegraph and the telephone to computers, sat...

The Documentary Film Book

Powerfully posing questions of ethics, ideology, authorship and form, documentary film has never been more popular than it is today. Edited by one of the leading British authorities in the field, The Documentary Film Book is an essential guide to current thinking on documentary film. In a series of ...