Easy to read, and highly topical, "Messages: Free Expression, Media and the West from Gutenberg to Google" 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 de[...]

CLAIMING THE REAL II tells the story of the emergence, development and current state of documentary film emerged and addresses the social, political, industrial and ethical factors that have determined documentary production, esepcially in the English-speaking world. John Grierson's definition of t[...]

A Right to Offend explores the most important cases of conflict over the last two decades, including the fatwa against Salman Rushdie and the incident of the Danish cartoons. It provides a unique insight into the increasingly threatened atmosphere in which freedom of speech operates and how it conti[...]