Messages

Brian Winston, currently a Pro-Vice Chancellor at the University of Lincoln, worked in the 1960s on Granada TV's World in Action; then for the BBC and WNET (New York) where he won an Emmy for documentary script writing in 1985, as a columnist on Ink, The Soho (New York)Weekly News and The Listener, as a co-producer of a Canadian feature film and a governor of the BFI. He has taught at Universities on both sides of the Atlantic and at Britain's National Film School. Messages is his thirteenth book.

Part 1 Print; prologue1 ‘The Liberty to Know’: Print From 1455; Chapter 1 ‘Taking off Vizards and Vailes And Disguises’: Newspapers From 1566; Chapter 2 ‘Congress Shall Make No Law’: Journalism From 1702; Chapter 3 ‘Here's The Papers, Here's The Papers!’: Journalism From 1836; Part 2 Images, Spectacle And Sound; prologue2 ‘Leal Sovvenir ’: Imaging From 1413; Chapter 4 ‘Who Knows Not Her Name’: Theatre From 1513; Chapter 5 ‘So Much For Stage Feeling’: Stage and Screen From 1737; Chapter 6 ‘Give the Public What We Think They Need’: Radio From 1906; Chapter 7 ‘American Shots’: Cinema From 1925; Chapter 8 ‘See It Now’: Television From 1954; Part 3 Convergence; epilogue ‘Free Expression is in Very Deep Trouble’: Media To 1991 And Beyond;