Professor Richard Kilborn

Honorary Professor

Communications, Media and Culture University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA

Professor Richard Kilborn

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Richard Kilborn is an Honorary Professor in the Division. He taught in the Department of Film, Media & Journalism from 1982 to 2008 and played a leading role in developing the Film & Media Studies programme at Stirling. He has twice been Head of Department. Richard has had a particular interest in the establishment of exchange programmes and collaborative partnerships with other European institutions. Currently he is the Stirling representative in a consortium of European universities that organizes an annual two-week summer school for doctoral students working in the media and communications area. His main research interests are in film and television documentary. Working together with two German colleagues he has recently completed a project that explored the ways in which documentary and dramatic elements are combined in various types of TV ‘docu-fiction'. The findings of this research are published in Spiel mit der Wirklichkeit (see below). His essay "Documentary Voices" exploring the British docu-soap phenomenon appeared in Brian Winston's edited volume The BFI Documentary Companion in the summer of 2013. He is one of the co-editors of the recently published volume Media Practice and Everyday Agency in Europe, edition lumiere, Bremen 2014, co-edited by Leif Kramp et al (available at: http://www.ecrea.eu/publications/researching-teaching-communication-series) Teaching As well as contributing to the undergraduate and postgraduate programme at Stirling, he has also taught at the Film School in Munich and at the Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen "Konrad Wolf" in Potsdam. He has also been a Visiting Professor at Northwestern University (Chicago). Currently he is involved in supervising the dissertations of a group of Vietnamese students who are completing a Masters degree in Media and Communications Management.

Research

His publications cover a wide range of topics, but have mainly focused on television drama, the media of the German-speaking countries and on film and television documentary (including recent developments in factual TV entertainment). Since the early 1990s Richard has been closely associated with the international documentary conference 'Visible Evidence'. He has also given papers or organized panels at many other conferences that focus on documentary and factual TV programming. He has written and edited several books, including: The Multi-Media Melting Pot (Comedia, 1985) Television Soaps (Batsford, 1992) An Introduction to Television Documentary: Confronting Reality (Manchester University Press, 1997) with John Izod Staging the Real: Factual TV Programming in the Age of Big Brother (Manchester University Press, 2003) Taking the Long View: A Study of Longitudinal Documentary (Manchester University Press, 2010) Critical Perspectives on the European Mediasphere (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, 2011) co-edited with Ilija Tomanic Trivundza, Nico Carpentier et al Spiel mit der Wirklichkeit: Zur Entwicklung doku-fiktionaler Formate in Film und Fernsehen (UVK Verlagsgesellschaft, 2012) with Kay Hoffmann and Werner Barg Media Practice and Everyday Agency in Europe (edition lumiere, Bremen 2014), co-edited with Leif Kramp, Nico Carpentier

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Outputs

Edited Book

Media Practice and Everyday Agency in Europe

Kramp L, Carpentier N, Hepp A, Tomanic Trivundza I, Nieminen H, Kunelius R, Olsson T, Sundin E & Kilborn R (eds.) (2014) Media Practice and Everyday Agency in Europe. The Researching and Teaching Communication Series, 9. Bremen, Germany: Edition Lumiere. http://www.editionlumiere.de/kramp-et-al.html

Book Chapter

Zurueck aus der Zukunft: wechselnde Zeitebenen in Life on Mars

Kilborn R (2013) Zurueck aus der Zukunft: wechselnde Zeitebenen in Life on Mars. In: Eichner S, Mikos L & Winter R (eds.) Transnationale Serienkultur: Theorie, Aesthetik, Narration und Rezeption neuer Fernsehserien. Film, Fernsehen, Medienkultur: Schriftenreihe der Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen "Konrad Wolf". Wiesbaden: Springer, pp. 233-232. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-531-93465-5_12

Book Chapter

Docusoaps: The Ordinary Voice as Popular Entertainment

Kilborn R (2013) Docusoaps: The Ordinary Voice as Popular Entertainment. In: Winston B (ed.) The Documentary Film Book. British Film Institute, pp. 291-298. http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/the-documentary-film-book-brian-winston/?K=9781844573424

Edited Book

Critical Perspectives on the European Mediasphere

Tomanic Trivundza I, Carpentier N, Nieminen H, Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt P, Kilborn R, Olsson T & Sundin E (eds.) (2011) Critical Perspectives on the European Mediasphere. The Researching And Teaching Communication Series, 7. Ljubljana, Slovenia: Faculty of Social Sciences: Založba FDV. http://www.researchingcommunication.eu/

Book Chapter

The British take on Moore

Kilborn R (2010) The British take on Moore. In: Bernstein M (ed.) Michael Moore: Filmmaker, Newsmaker, Cultural Icon. Ann Arbor, MI, USA: University of Michigan Press, pp. 255-277. http://www.press.umich.edu/192221/michael_moore#michael_moore/?s=look_inside

Edited Book

Media and Communication Studies: Intersections and Interventions

Carpentier N, Tomanic Trivundza I, Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt P, Sundin E, Olsson T, Kilborn R, Nieminen H & Cammaerts B (eds.) (2010) Media and Communication Studies: Intersections and Interventions. Researching and Teaching Communication Book Series, 6. Tartu, Estonia: Tartu University Press. http://www.researchingcommunication.eu/

Edited Book

Communicative approaches to politics and ethics in Europe

Carpentier N, Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt P, Kilborn R, Olsson T, Nieminen H, Sundin E & Nordenstreng K (eds.) (2009) Communicative approaches to politics and ethics in Europe. Researching and Teaching Communication Book Series, 5. Tartu, Estonia: Tartu University Press. http://www.researchingcommunication.eu/

Book Chapter

Neue Zeiten, alte Zeiten. Winfried und Barbara Junges 'Die Kinder von Golzow' und die Langzeitdokumentation als Erinnerungsschronik

Kilborn R (2009) Neue Zeiten, alte Zeiten. Winfried und Barbara Junges 'Die Kinder von Golzow' und die Langzeitdokumentation als Erinnerungsschronik. In: Ebbrecht T, Hoffmann H & Schweinitz J (eds.) DDR- Erinnern, Vergessen: Das visuelle Gedaechtnis des Dokumentarfilms. Marburg, Germany: Schueren Verlag, pp. 235-252. http://www.schueren-verlag.de/programm/titel/58--ddr-erinnern-vergessen.html

Book Chapter

Adapt to Survive: The BBC in a new broadcasting age

Kilborn R (2006) Adapt to Survive: The BBC in a new broadcasting age. In: Kamm J (ed.) Medialised Britain: Essays on Media, Culture and Society. Passauer Arbeiten zur Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft, 4. Passau, Germany: Verlag Karl Stutz, pp. 46-58. http://www.stutz-verlag.de/index.php?action=detail&id=96&rubrik_id=21

Book Chapter

Co-production: Television and the European Union

Kilborn R (2006) Co-production: Television and the European Union. In: Gomery D & Hockley L (eds.) Television Industries. London: British Film Institute, pp. 62-65. http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/television-industries-douglas-gomery/?K=9781844571062

Book Chapter

The docu-soap: a critical assessment

Kilborn R (2000) The docu-soap: a critical assessment. In: Izod J, Kilborn R & Hibberd M (eds.) From Grierson to the Docu-soap. Luton: University of Luton Press, pp. 111-120.

Book Chapter

The documentary work of Juergen Boettcher: A retrospective

Kilborn R (1999) The documentary work of Juergen Boettcher: A retrospective. In: Allan S & Sandford J (eds.) DEFA: East German Cinema 1946-1992. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 267-282. http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=AllanDefa

Book Chapter

Redefining cinema: Other Genres - the documentary film

Izod J & Kilborn R (1998) Redefining cinema: Other Genres - the documentary film. In: Hill J & Church GP (eds.) The Oxford Guide to Film Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 426-434. http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198711247.do

Authored Book

Television Soaps

Kilborn R (1992) Television Soaps. Batsford Cultural Studies. London: Batsford.

Book Chapter

Volker Schlondorff and The Tin Drum

Kilborn R (1992) Volker Schlondorff and The Tin Drum. In: Orr J & Nicholson C (eds.) Cinema and Fiction: New Modes of Adapting, 1950-1990. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 28-34.

Article

Unified Germany’s media Anschluss

Kilborn R (1992) Unified Germany’s media Anschluss. British Journalism Review, 3 (1), pp. 29-33. http://bjr.sagepub.com/content/3/1/29.extract

Book Chapter

The Scottish Media Today: An Endangered Species?

Kilborn R (1989) The Scottish Media Today: An Endangered Species?. In: Zenzinger P (ed.) Scotland: Literature, Culture, Politics. Anglistik und Englischunterricht, 38-39. Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag Winter, pp. 87-116.