John Ellis

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• 2021

  How Documentaries Mark Themselves Out From Fiction: A Genre-based Approach

  Ellis, J., 7 May 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Studies in Documentary Film. 15, 2, p. 140-150 11 p.

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• 2020

  Provocations, I: What do we need in a crisis? Broadcast TV!

  Ellis, J., 1 Dec 2020, In: Critical Studies in Television. 15, 4, p. 393-398 6 p.

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• 2019

  Filming for Television: How a 16mm Film Crew Worked Together

  Ellis, J., 27 Oct 2019, In: View: Journal of European Television History and Culture. 8, 15, p. 91-110 20 p.

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• Hands on Media History: A New Methodology in the Humanities and Social Sciences

  Hall, N. (ed.) & Ellis, J. (ed.), 8 Oct 2019, 1 ed. Routledge. 256 p.

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• 2018

  Did Grace Kelly Shed a Tear? The Monegasque Royal Wedding as a Disruptive Television Event

  Ellis, J., 16 May 2018, In: View: Journal of European Television History and Culture. 7, 13, p. 1-12 12 p.

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• 2015

  16mm Film Editing: Using Filmed Simulation as a Hands-on Approach to TV History

  Murphy, A., Aust, R., Jackson, V. & Ellis, J., 13 Jul 2015, In: View: Journal of European Television History and Culture. 4, 7, p. 1-4 4 p.

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• Ethics and Factual Television: a short history

  Ellis, J., Sept 2015, Adventures in the Lives of Others: Ethical Dilemmas in Factual Filmmaking. Quinn, J. (ed.). London: IB Tauris

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• How to be in public: the case of an early television show

  Ellis, J., 2015, In: Celebrity Studies. 6, 3, p. 355-369 15 p.

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• 2014

  TV and Cinema: What Forms of History Do We Need?

  Ellis, J., 2014, Cinema, Television & History: New Approaches. Mee, L. & Walker, J. (eds.). Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, p. 12-24 12 p.

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• 2013

  Per un canone storico dei programmi televisivi

  Translated title of the contribution: Towards a Canon of Historical Television ProgrammesEllis, J., Apr 2013, Storie e culture della televisione italiana. Grasso, A. (ed.). Milano: Mondadori, p. 211-222 12 p.

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• 2012

  Documentaries on British Television: a Survey

  Translated title of the contribution: Documentaries on British Television: A SurveyEllis, J., Nov 2012, (Accepted/In press) 中国纪录片蓝皮书（2012）: Annual Report on the Development of Chinese Documentary (2012). Social Science Academy Press, Beijing, p. 190-200 11 p.

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• Documentary: Witness and Self-revelation

  Ellis, J., 2012, London: Routledge. 171 p.

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• Why Digitise Historical Television?

  Ellis, J., 2012, In: View: Journal of European Television History and Culture. 1, 1, 7 p.

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• 2011

  Interstitials: How the 'Bits in Between' Define the Programmes

  Ellis, J., Oct 2011, Ephemeral Media: Transitory Screen Culture from Television to YouTube. Grainge, P. (ed.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 59-69

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• La mise en scène de soi à la télévision: L’exemple du premier jeu télévisé sur ITV

  Translated title of the contribution: The Performance Of Self On Television: The Case Of ITV’s First Game ShowEllis, J., 2011, Télévision: le moment expérimental: De l'invention à l'institution (1935-1955). Delavaud, G. & Maréchal, D. (eds.). Rennes: Éditions Apogée, p. 285-298

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• 2010

  Quand le documentaire rencontre la fiction: la crise du factual a la television britannique en 1999: When documentary and fiction meet: the crisis of British TV documentary 1999

  Ellis, J., 2010, In: Le Temps des Médias. 14, printemps, p. 109-123

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• The Digitally Enhanced Audience: New Attitudes to Factual Footage

  Ellis, J., 2010, Relocating Television. Gripsrud, J. (ed.). Routledge, p. 183-193

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• 2009

  Mundane Witness

  Ellis, J., 2009, Media Witnessing: Testimony in the Age of Mass Communication. Frosh, P. & Pinchevski, A. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 73-88

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• The Performance on Television of Sincerely Felt Emotion

  Ellis, J., 2009, In: The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 625, September, p. 103-115

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• What Are We Expected to Feel? Witness, Textuality and the Audiovisual

  Ellis, J., 2009, In: Screen. 50, 1, p. 67-76

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• 2008

  TV Pages

  Ellis, J., 2008, Pulling Newspapers Apart: Analysing Print Journalism. Franklin, B. (ed.). Routledge, p. 244-52

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• What Did Channel 4 Do For Us? Reassessing the Early Years

  Ellis, J., 2008, In: Screen. 49, 3, p. 331-342

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• 2007

  Is it Possible to Construct a Canon of Television Programmes? Immanent Reading versus Textual Historicism

  Ellis, J., 2007, Re-Viewing Television Histories: Critical Issues in Television Historiography. Wheatley, H. (ed.). I.B.Tauris, p. 15-26

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• TV FAQ: Uncommon Answers to Common Questions about TV

  Ellis, J., 2007, London: I.B.Taurus. 236 p.

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• Visions: a Channel 4 Experiment 1982-5

  Ellis, J., 2007, Experimental British Television. Mulvey, L. & Sexton, J. (eds.). University of Manchester Press, p. 136-145

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• 2006

  The past as television: are television programmes more than nostalgic ephemera

  Ellis, J. & Grasso, A. (ed.), 2006, Fare storia con la televisione. Milan, p. 167-172

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• 2005

  Documentary and truth on television: The crisis of 1999

  Ellis, J., 10 Feb 2005, New challenges for documentary. Corner, J. & Rosenthal, A. (eds.). 2nd ed. Manchester, UK

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• Documentary and Truth on Television: The Crisis of 1999

  Ellis, J., 2005, New Challenges in Documentary. Corner, J. & Rosenthal, A. (eds.). Manchester University Press, p. 342-360

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• Importance, Significance, Cost And Value: Is An ITV Canon Possible?

  Ellis, J., 2005, ITV Cultures: Fifty Years of Commercial Television. Johnson, C. & Turnock, R. (eds.). Open University Press, p. 36-56

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• 2003

  Television Production

  Ellis, J., 2003, The Television Studies Reader. Allen, R. & Hill, A. (eds.). Routledge, p. 275-292

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• 2002

  A Minister is About to Resign: On the Interpretation of Television Footage

  Ellis, J., 2002, Realism and 'Reality' in Film and Media. Jerslev, A. (ed.). University of Copenhagen Press, p. 193-210 (Northern Lights Film and Media Studies Yearbook).

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• 2001

  The Meaning Of Television In Twentieth Century Life

  Ellis, J., 2001, L’ Eredita Del Novecento. Di Nolfo, E. (ed.). Rome: Instituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana/Editione Trecani

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• 2000

  British Cinema as Performance Art: 'Brief Encounter', 'Radio Parade of 1935' and the Circumstances of Film Exhibition

  Ellis, J., 2000, British Cinema, Past and Present. Ashby, J. & Higson, A. (eds.). Routledge

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• Scheduling: The Last Creative Act in Television?

  Ellis, J., 2000, In: Media, Culture and Society. 22, Jan, p. 25-38

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• Seeing Things: Television in the Age of Uncertainty

  Ellis, J., 2000, London: I.B.Tauris. 193 p.

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• What Do We Mean By Media Practice Education?

  Ellis, J., 2000, In: Journal of Media Practice. 1, 1, p. 5-11

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• 1999

  Television as Working Through

  Ellis, J., 1999, Media and Knowledge: The Role of Television. Gripsrud, J. (ed.). Routledge, p. 55-70

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• 1998

  Cinema and Television: Laios and Oedipus

  Ellis, J., 1998, Cinema Futures: Cain, Abel or Cable?. Elsaesser, T. & Hoffmann, K. (eds.). Amsterdam University Press, p. 127-136

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• 1996

  Speed, Film and Television: Media Moving Apart

  Ellis, J., 1996, Big Picture, Small Screen - The Relation Between Film and Television. Hill, J. & McLoone, M. (eds.). John Libbey & Co, p. 97-106

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• The Quality Film Adventure: British Critics and the Cinema, 1942-8

  Ellis, J., 1996, Dissolving Views: Key Writings on British Cinema. Higson, A. (ed.). Edward Arnold, p. 66-93

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• 1994

  At the Edge of Our World: Michael Powell

  Ellis, J., 1994, In: Vertigo. 3, Spring

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• 1993

  The Subterranean Tradition

  Ellis, J., 1993, In: Vertigo. 1, Spring

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• 1991

  Television Arts Programmes: Another Fine Mess

  Ellis, J., 1991, In: Modern Painters. 4, 1

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• 1990

  Broadcast Television as Cultural Form

  Ellis, J., 1990, Popular Fiction: Technology, Ideology, Production and Reading. Bennett, T. (ed.). Routledge

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• The Death of the Video Clip

  Ellis, J., 1990, What A Wonderful World.

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• What Does a Script Do?

  Ellis, J., 1990, In: Yearbook of English Studies. 20

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• What's the Point?

  Ellis, J., 1990, The Question of Quality. Mulgan, G. (ed.). BFI

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• 1989

  Three Brothers: Three Generations

  Ellis, J., 1989, Raymond Williams: Film, TV, Culture. Lusted, D. (ed.). BFI

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• 1986

  Broadcasting and the State: Britain and the Experience of Channel 4

  Ellis, J., 1986, In: Screen. May-August

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• Censorship at the Edges of TV - Visions

  Ellis, J., 1986, In: Screen. March-April

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