Jamie Medhurst
Jamie Medhurst
Lecturer in Film and Television Studies, University of Wales Aberystwyth
Phone: +44(0)1970 622152 ex 2152
jsm@aber.ac.uk
Jamie Medhurst's teaching and research interests lie in the areas of broadcasting history,
broadcasting policy, British cinema in the 1960s and documentary film history. He is
also interested in issues surrounding national identity and the role of radio and television
in this.
He is currently researching the history and cultural politics of commercial television in
Wales during the late 1950s and 1960s and looking at how the campaign for an
independent television service for the country at that time tied in with notions of cultural
nationalism.
Selected Publications:
'Wales Television – Mammon’s Television? ITV in Wales in the 1960s’, Media History
10, 2 (2004) – forthcoming
‘“You say a minority, Sir; we say a nation”: The Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting
(1960-62) and Wales’, Welsh History Review December 2004 – forthcoming
'An Awkward Area': ITV in Wales in the 1950s and 1960s (proposed chapter for ITV
Culture: Fifty Years of Commercial Television edited by Rob Turnock and Cathy
Johnson. Forthcoming, 2005).
'Researching Television History' in Creeber (ed.), Studying Television: an Introduction
(British Film Institute, forthcoming 2005)
'Regions and Nations: Wales' in McGown (ed.), The BFI Television Handbook 2005
(British Film Institute, forthcoming 2004)
Competition and Change in British Television and Television in Wales, 1960-80 in
Michele Hilmes (ed.), The Television History Book (BFI, 2003)
'Esblygiad neu Chwyldro? Ffenomenon teledu realiti' [Evolution or Revolution: the
reality television phenomenon], Tu Chwith Vol 14 Winter 2000, 109-112
Servant of Two Tongues: the demise of TWW in Llafur: Journal of Welsh Labour
History 8(3) 2002, 79-87.
Teledu Cymru: Menter Gyffrous neu Freuddwyd Ffôl? in Geraint H Jenkins (ed.), Cof
Cenedl XVII (Gomer, 2002), pp. 167-193.
The mass media in twentieth century Wales in Eiluned Rees & Philip H. Jones (eds.), A
Nation and its Books. (Aberystwyth, 1998), pp. 329-340.
Broadcasting and other visual archives in Wales in James Ballantyne (ed.), Researcher’s
Guide to British Film and Television Collections. (British Universities Film and Video
Council, 1993), pp.15-19.
