HERITAGE: CIVILIZATION AND THE JEWS - OUT OF THE ASHES

Dr Brian Winston is The Lincoln Professor. His primary areas of interest are freedom of speech, journalism history, media technology and documentary film, all of which he teaches. He is the founding chair of British Association of Film, Television and Media Studies and has been a governor of the BFI. Winston sits on the editorial board of British Journalism Review. He is a Guest Professor at the Digital Cultures Research Centre of the University of the West of England and at Chanchung Normal University. Prof Winston has been involved with media since he joined Granada UK’s World In Action in 1963.  He has written for magazines and newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic and his television work in documentary was awarded in 1985 with a US prime-time Emmy (for WNET, New York). In 2012, a feature-length documentary on Robert Flaherty – A Boatload of Wild Irishmen – which he wrote and co-produced won a Special Jury prize from the British University Council for Film and Video. Winston was the founding director of the Glasgow (University) Media Group whose pioneering studies of television news, Bad News (1976) and More Bad News ((1980), have been re-issued as a classic of media sociology. He has written 17 other books and contributed 48 articles to scholar journals and more than 50 chapter books across the entire field of media communications. With Media Technology and Society (1998) he established the concepts of ‘supervening social necessity’ and ‘suppression of radical potential’ as factors in technological change. His writing on the documentary includes editing Claiming the Real II (2008) The BFI Documentary Film Book (2013) and The Act of Documenting (with Gail Vanstine and Wang Chi) (2017). His latest books on free expression are A Right to Offend (2012) and The Rushdie Fatwa and after: A Lesson to the Circumspect (2014). Brian is currently the Jewish Faith Advisor at the University's Multi-faith Chaplaincy.