Political Culture and Media Genre: Beyond the News 2013th Edition

Katy Parry is Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Leeds, UK, where she teaches visual communication, political communication and media and war. She is a co-author of Pockets of Resistance: British News Media, War and Theory in the 2003 Invasion of Iraq (with P. Robinson, P. Goddard, C. Murray and P.Taylor, 2010). She has authored and co-authored journal articles in Journal of Communication; Media, Culture and Society; Sociology Compass; The British Journal of Politics and International Relations; Media, War and Conflict and Television and New Media. She was Research Associate for the Media Genre and Political Culture project, on which this book is based and continues to publish on media visualization of war.

John Corner is Visiting Professor in Media and Communication at the University of Leeds, UK, and Emeritus Professor of the University of Liverpool, UK. He has written widely on media history, theory and forms in books and journals, including Television Form and Public Address (1995), The Art of Record: A Critical Introduction to Documentary (1996) and Critical Ideas in Television Studies (1999). He co-edited the collection Media and the Restyling of Politics (with D. Piels, 2003). His most recent book is Theorising Media: Power, Form and Subjectivity (2011).