University of Sunderland

Prof. Andrew Crisell's profile

Professor Andrew Crisell

Email: andrew.crisell@sunderland.ac.uk

Telephone: (0191) 515 3178

Teaches: History of the mass media, radio production.

Research interests:

• radio and television
• history of British broadcasting

Key Research Output:

• Books
  
  2012:  Liveness and Recording in the Media (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
  
  2009:  (co-authored with Guy Starkey) Radio Journalism (Sage)
  
  2008:  (as editor) Radio (Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies series), vols 1-3 (Routledge)
  
  2006:  A Study of Modern Television: Thinking Inside the Box (Palgrave Macmillan)
  
  2004:  More than a Music Box: Radio Cultures and Communities in a Multimedia World (Berghahn)
  
  2002:  An Introductory History of British Broadcasting, Second Edition (Routledge)
  
  1994:  Understanding Radio, Second Edition (Routledge) [Part of the book was reproduced under the title 'Radio Signs' in Media Studies: A Reader (eds) Paul Marris and Sue Thornham (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996)
  
  
• Book Chapters
  
  2011:  'Hear today and on tomorrow: the future of news and "news talk" in an era of digital radio' in The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism (co-authored with Guy Starkey), ed. Stuart Allan (London: Routledge)
  
  1999:  'Broadcasting: television and radio' in The Media in Britain: Current Debates and Developments (eds) Jane Stokes and Anna Reading (London: Macmillan)
  
  1998:  'Radio: public service, commercialism and the paradox of choice' in The Media: An Introduction, (eds) Adam Briggs and Paul Cobley (London: Addison Wesley Longman, second edition, 2002)
  
  1998:  'Local radio: attuned to the times or filling time with tunes?' in Making the Local News: Local Journalism in Context, (eds) Bob Franklin and David Murphy (London and New York: Routledge)
  
  1994:  Reproduction of part of Understanding Radio (Routledge, 1994) as 'Radio Signs' in Media Studies: A Reader (eds) Paul Marris and Sue Thornham (Edinburgh University Press, 1996)
  
  1991:  'Filth, sedition and blasphemy: the rise and fall of television satire' in Popular Television in Britain: Studies in Cultural History, (ed.) John Corner (London: British Film Institute)
  
  1987:  'Parody and the satirical mentality' in Propaganda, Persuasion and Polemic, (ed) Jeremy Hawthorn (London: Edward Arnold)
  
  
• Journal Articles
  
  2001:  'The Rise of Radio Studies: A Review of T. Crook Radio Drama: Theory and Practice; S Bamard Studying Radio; D Hendy Radio in the Global Age', European Journal of Communication 16(2) June
  
  2000  'Better than Magritte: how drama on the radio became radio drama' Journal of Radio Studies 7(2)
  
  
• Other Publications
  
  1997:  An Introductory History of British Broadcasting (London and New York: Routledge)
  
  1986:  Understanding Radio (Methuen & Co)
  
  1987:  'Private virtues, public vices?' The Listener (5 March)