"After the Referendum on whether Scotland should become an independent country in September 2014 - and following a momentous mobilisation of voters by both the Yes and No campaigns - Scotland's political environment has been fundamentally energised. But how was the Referendum campaign reported and structured in the media in Scotland, the wider United Kingdom, and in other parts of the world, and was it a matter of 'construction' rather t ..."
"After the Referendum on whether Scotland should become an independent country in September 2014 - and following a momentous mobilisation of voters by both the Yes and No campaigns - Scotland's political environment has been fundamentally energised. But how was the Referendum campaign reported and structured in the media in Scotland, the wider United Kingdom, and in other parts of the world, and was it a matter of 'construction' rather t ..."
"Irish film studies become obsessed with the relationship between the state, the
nation and cultural representations thereof? ... His latest film Hallam Foe (2007),
produced by Sigma Films, is billed as a thriller narrative tracking the activities of a
..."
The Media in Scotland(1st Edition) (Film, Media, and Cultural Studies) by NeilBlain, DavidHutchison Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2008 by Edinburgh University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7486-2800-1, ISBN: 0-7486-2800-2
"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 p ..."
"'It's shite [sic] being Scottish.' So began a vituperative article by Tom Little in
Scotland on Sunday on 19 November 2006. Having just watched the highlights of
the 2006 BAFTA Scotland awards on TV, Little was moved to quote Renton,
Ewan McGregor's character in the film version of Trainspotting (1996). Where,
asked Little, was the quality of BBC Scotland's drama output to justify its current £
180 million a year licence fee income? ..."
Scotland's Referendum and the Media National and International Perspectives by NeilBlain 264 Pages, Published 2016 by Edinburgh University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7486-9660-4, ISBN: 0-7486-9660-1
"(Tolson, email to the editors) A more difficult example to evaluate, and this time in
the important context of the role of BBC Scotland, and one which illustrates the
need for some fine judgements about impartiality, can be found in reporting of a ..."
"Now in its 36th annual edition, the fully revised and updated Pension Funds and their Advisers 2013 provides you with the most up-to-date financial and contact information for the UK's major pension funds and details on their advisory firms."
"Global and Local Dimensions ALINA BERNSTEIN, Neil Blain. in both languages
necessarily means the same thing. On the contrary, choosing Catalan,for
example, energizes a discursive dimension thatis simply not available in
Castilian and the same is alsotrue in reverse. The use of Catalan impliesa
distance notonly from thesymbolic and political construct'Spain', butalso from
whatareseen as many key elements of its history including, cr ..."
"On New Year's Eve, Matthews spent an hour on the phone to her and early in the
New Year, in receipt of invitations to South Africa and Canada, he invited her to
join him. By some moral standards, they behaved rather badly – Matthews was
unable to face telling Betty about Mila for long after he and Mila had agreed that
they wanted to divorce their partners and get married. Mila's husband George
refused a divorce, so she tried to arr ..."
Media, Monarchy and Power the Postmodern Culture in Europe (European Studies Series) by NeilBlain, Hugh O'donnell Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2008 by Intellect Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-043-0, ISBN: 1-84150-043-7
"Historically underpinned, this study focuses especially on the period from the 1980s onward and looking forward into the new century. The authors begin their analysis with the phenomenon of the British Royal Family and their relationship with contemporary Britain through the media. This then extends into a comparative analysis of monarchy across Eurpoe, in its relation to political culture, including the republican tradition. The book a ..."
Media, Monarchy and Power Postmodern Culture in Europe by NeilBlain, Hugh O'donnell Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2004 by Intellect L & D E F A E ISBN-13: 978-1-84150-094-2, ISBN: 1-84150-094-1
"Historically underpinned, this study focuses especially on the period from the 1980s onward and looking forward into the new century. The authors begin their analysis with the phenomenon of the British Royal Family and their relationship with contemporary Britain through the media. This then extends into a comparative analysis of monarchy across Eurpoe, in its relation to political culture, including the republican tradition. The book a ..."
"... position radically outside its discursive framework, their attacks, no matter how
caustic and eloquently articulated, in the end merely add to the already existing
discursive mass. A good example of this is Margarita Riviere's article entitled 'The
..."
"European Image Spaces, Beyond Fordism', Cultural Studies, 3 (2), May.
Rothenbuhler, E.W. (1988) The Living Room Celebration of the Olympic Games,
Journal of Communication, Autumn. Rowe, D. (1991) '"That Misery of Stringer's
Cliches": Sports Writing', Cultural Studies, 5 (1), January. Rowland, W. and
Tracey, M. (1988) 'The Breakdown of Public Service Broadcasting', Intermedia,
vol.16 No. 4-6, Autumn 1989. Scannell, P. (1989) 'Public ..."
"B. Hayes, 'The Role of the Public Voice in Present-day Radio', in A.M. Hargrave ( ed.) ... R. Boyle, 'Playing the Game: The Lillehammer Winter Olympics on British Television and in the UK Press', in R. Puijk (ed.) ... in I. Creus, J. Julia and S. Romero (eds), Llengua i niitjans de comunicacio' (Lleida: Pages Editors, 2000), p .272."
"The relationship between media and sport has become of particular interest to media scholars over the last decade. As the significance of sport itself has grown in a variety of other disciplines, the study of the ways in which media and sport interact across boundaries can be found in literature on the sociology of sport, history of sport, gender studies, cultural studies, journalism, leisure studies and beyond. For scholars interested ..."