Charlotte Brunsdon

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Charlotte Brunsdon (born 1952 [1] ) is a professor of film and television studies at the University of Warwick and researcher. [2] She was one of the principal researchers of the Nationwide Project. [3]

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Brunsdon studied English at University College London and completed her Ph.D. at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies Birmingham in the 1970s, where she and David Morley were the principal researchers for the Nationwide Project. [4] Brunsdon's research is focused on television, film, and media audience research. She is a founding member of the Midlands Television Research Group, was the principal investigator on the Projection Project, and a Fellow of the British Academy. [5] [6]

Research

Brunsdon's research interests focuses on television and film and their connection to culture and feminism as well as the effects media has on audiences. Her approach to researching and studying television and film focuses less on how it plays out on the screen and more about how it can be discussed and studied in academia. [7]

She was one of the principal researchers in the Nationwide Project, a media audience research project conducted at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies in the 1970s and 1980s. David Morley and Charlotte Brunsdon were its principal researchers. [8] The project focused on media audiences to study the encoding and decoding model, which is a part of reception theory. The research focused on the difference between how certain audiences understand texts with an emphasis on British television, something Brunsdon and Morley call 'national-ness'.

Brunsdon, along with Jason Jacobs, Ann Gray, and Tim O’Sullivan founded the Midlands Television Research Group in the 1990s, to create a space for media scholars in the United Kingdom. [9] The group continues to meets once a term to discuss television, the news, keep up to date about new work regarding film and television, discuss their individual projects, and work on collaborative projects. [10] Group members include Ph.D. students and media scholars at the University of Warwick, De Montfort University, University of Lincoln, Leeds Metropolitan University, University of Hull, and University of Central England. Group projects led by Brunson include "Factual entertainment on British television: The Midlands TV Research Group’s‘8–9 Project’" [11] and "In Focus: The Place of Television Studies: A View from the British Midlands: Introduction". [12]

Brunsdon was the Principal Investigator on the Projection Project from 2014-2018. [13] In the Projection Project she served as the key point of contact for project management. [14] In addition to this she worked with Dr. Richard Wallace in the planning and analysis of interviews. The Project researched the history of cinema projection in the United Kingdom after the switch to digital projection in most cinemas by using interviews, archives, feature films, and photographs. It focused on four areas: the modern transition to digital, the history of the cinema projectionists job, the projectionists in films themselves, and digital projection as a new form of art. The project ran from 2014-2018 and was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). [15]

Teaching and Supervision

Brunsdon has developed and taught a large array of courses regarding television and film studies at the University of Warwick and visiting semesters in the United States at Duke University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The classes she has taught include ‘The Cinema and the City’, ‘National Cinemas’ and ‘Film and Television Culture in Britain’. She has also supervised many Ph.D. theses on film and television.

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Journal articles

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References

  1. ↑ "Brunsdon, Charlotte". Library of Congress Name Authority File. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  2. ↑ Turnbull, Sue (2014-06-30). TV Crime Drama. Edinburgh University Press. pp. 15, 66. ISBN   978-0-7486-7818-1.
  3. ↑ Wallace, Richard (2018-12-10). "Professor Charlotte Brunsdon". warwick.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  4. ↑ Charlotte, Brunsdon (2014-10-14). "On Being Made History". Cultural Studies. 29: 88–99. doi:10.1080/09502386.2015.965399. S2CID   162909648.
  5. ↑ Wallace, Richard (2020-02-14). "Professor Charlotte Brunsdon elected as a Fellow of the British Academy". warwick.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  6. ↑ "New Fellows 2019" (PDF).
  7. ↑ Davies, Fred. "Charlotte Brunsdon, The Feminist, the Housewife, and the Soap Opera [review]". Journal of British Cinema and Television. 1 (1). doi:10.3366/JBCTV.2004.1.1.177.
  8. ↑ Morley, David, 1949- (1999). The Nationwide television studies. Brunsdon, Charlotte., Morley, David, 1949-, Brunsdon, Charlotte. London: Routledge. ISBN   0-415-14879-0. OCLC   40940006.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  9. ↑ Television Research Group, M. (1999-03-01). "Report". Screen. 40 (1): 88–90. doi:10.1093/screen/40.1.88. ISSN   0036-9543.
  10. ↑ "Midlands Television Research Group - University of Warwick". warwick.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-04-20.
  11. ↑ Brunsdon, Charlotte; Johnson, Catherine; Moseley, Rachel; Wheatley, Helen (2001). "Factual entertainment on British television". European Journal of Cultural Studies. 4 (1): 29–62. doi: 10.1177/136754940100400102 . ISSN   1367-5494.
  12. ↑ Brunsdon, Charlotte (2008-05-10). "In focus: The place of television studies: A view from the British Midlands - Introduction". Cinema Journal. 47 (3): 122–127. doi:10.1353/cj.0.0001. ISSN   2578-4919.
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  14. ↑ "Project Team · Cinema Projectionist". projectionproject.warwick.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-04-20.
  15. ↑ "About the Projection Project · Cinema Projectionist". projectionproject.warwick.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-04-20.
  16. ↑ Turnbull, S. (2011-12-01). "Law and Order * Cracker * Prime Suspect". Screen. 52 (4): 549–553. doi:10.1093/screen/hjr044. ISSN   0036-9543.
  17. ↑ "A Televisual Tale of Three Cities – Television Cities: Paris, London, Baltimore by Charlotte Brunsdon". Film International. 25 April 2018. Retrieved 2020-06-03.
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