Research Fellow
Paul Long, Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication is the co-investigator for urban culture and music heritage in the AHRC KTF run by Interactive Cultures.
Paul’s research interests are in representations of class and locality as well as the historicisation of media and cultural theory. He is the editor of ‘The Friends of Philip Donnellan’ website (www.philipdonnellan.co.uk).
His current projects include the development of New Filmic Strategies which will explore contemporary production and distribution practices in the film industry as well as archival work on the Video Workshop movement of the 1980s.
Books
The Aesthetics of Class in Post-War Britain, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.
Contributing Editor, This is Media Studies, Pearson Education (textbook & supplementary pedagogical resources due for publication in Spring 2009)
Editor (with Mary Irwin, Strathclyde University), ‘We Were the BBC’: an alternative view of a producer’s responsibility, 1948-1984, the autobiography of Philip Donnellan, Cambridge Scholars Publishing (forthcoming 2009).
Chapters in books
‘An Entirely New Englishness: The Post-War Folk Revival and the Negotiation of National Identity’ in Chris Hart (ed.), Englishness: Diversity, Differences & Identity, Midrash, Kingswinford, 2007.
‘“But it’s not all nostalgia”: Public History in Birmingham’ in Hilda Kean, Paul Martin & Sally Morgan (eds) Seeing History: Public History Now in Britain, London: Francis Boutle, 2000.
Journal articles
‘The Primary Code: The Meanings of John Peel, Radio and Popular Music Radio’, article commissioned by the editors of The Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast and Audio Media, Vol.4, No. 1-3, 2006, pp. 25-48.
‘British Radio and the Politics of Culture in Post-War Britain: The Work of Charles Parker’ in The Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast and Audio Media, Vol. 2, No.3, 2004, pp. 131-52.
(With Dr. David Parker, Department of Sociology, University of Nottingham) ‘The Mistakes of the Past’? Visual Narratives of Urban Decline and Regeneration’ in Visual Culture in Britain, Vol.5, No.1, 2004, pp. 37-58.
(With Dr. David Parker, Department of Cultural Studies, University of Birmingham) ‘Reimagining Birmingham: Public History, Selective Memory and the Narration of Urban Change’ in European Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol 6, No.2, May 2003, pp. 157-78
Recent conference contributions
January 2007. ‘What’s regional about regional film?’ at MECCSA/AMPE 2007, University of Coventry.
February 2007. Invited Speaker, ‘Radical Region Conference/Day School’, University of Birmingham.
March 2007. ‘Public Service, Public History: Reviving the Work of Philip Donnellan’ at Ruskin College, 7th Public History Conference.
April 2007. Organiser/Speaker: Fourth Charles Parker Day, University of Central England.
April 2007. ‘What’s regional about regional film?’ at Disunited Nations, University of Birmingham.
July 2007. ‘John Peel and the Discourse of Popular Music Culture’ at Radio Studies Conference, University of Lincoln.
November 2007. ‘A Winter of Discontent? Whatever You Want and Post-Punk Popular Music Culture’ at Channel 4: The First Twenty-Five Years, BFI.
May 2008. ‘Always different, always the same’: John Peel and the Fall at ‘Messing up the Paintwork: A conference on the Aesthetics and Politics of Mark E. Smith and the Fall’, University of Salford.
Contact Paul: paul.long@bcu.ac.uk