Dr Bethany Klein

BA (Bryn Mawr), MA (Penn), PhD (Penn)

Position: Lecturer in Media Industries

Email: b.klein@leeds.ac.uk
Location: 16 Clarendon Place
Tel: 0113 343 6979
Office hours: Mondays 1-2 and Thursdays 11-12; email for an appointment during non-teaching weeks
 Bethany Klein

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My research interests include commercialism and the media, popular music culture, social issues in entertainment television and the politics of representation. I am currently working with Dr Claire Wardle (Cardiff University) on the ESRC-funded project Social Issues in Primetime Television: Production Processes and Audience Responses.

 

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Klein, B. (2009) As Heard on TV: Popular Music in Advertising. Aldershot: Ashgate.

Articles

Klein, B. and Wardle, C. (2008) ‘These Two are Speaking Welsh on Channel 4!’: Welsh Representations and Cultural Tensions on Big Brother 7. Television and New Media 9(6), 514-530.

Klein, B. (2008) ‘The New Radio’: Music Licensing as a Response to Industry Woe. Media, Culture & Society, 30(4), 463–478.

Klein, B. (2008) In Perfect Harmony: Popular Music and Cola Advertising. Popular Music and Society, 31(1), 1–20.

Klein, B. (2005) Dancing About Architecture: Popular Music Criticism and the Negotiation of Authority. Popular Communication, 3(1), 1–20.

Book Chapters

Klein, B. They’re Playing Our Song: Popular Music as a Marker of Shared Romantic Memory. In Institutions of Musical Memory in the Americas, eds. Jeder Janotti Jr and Will Straw. New York: Peter Lang (forthcoming).

 

TEACHING

COMM2120 (outline) Communications Arts

COMM1200 (outline) Academic Skills and Contemporary Issues

COMM5720 Media Production Analysis