Peter Snowdon

أربعون هرمًا من مصر و ما يجاورهم

A major intervention in media studies theorizes the politics and aesthetics of internet video The wave of uprisings and revolutions that swept the Middle East and North Africa between 2010 and 2012 were most vividly transmitted throughout the world not by television or even social media, but in short videos produced by the participants themselves and circulated anonymously on the internet. In The People Are Not An Image, Snowdon explores this radical shift in revolutionary self-representation, showing that the political consequences of these videos cannot be located without reference to their aesthetic form. Looking at videos from Tunisia, Bahrain, Syria, Libya, and Egypt, Snowdon attends closely to the circumstances of both their production and circulation, drawing on a wide range of historical and theoretical material, to discover what they can tell us about the potential for revolution in our time and the possibilities of video as a genuinely decentralized and vernacular medium.

Vernacular Video After the Arab Spring

The People Are Not an Image

Anthony Seldon

Daniel Collings

A conclusion to Anthony Seldon's account of the Blair premiership, covering his tenure from 9/11 to his departure from Number 10.

Blair Unbound

The wave of uprisings and revolutions that swept the Middle East and North Africa between 2010 and 2012 were most vividly transmitted throughout the world not by television or even social media, but in short videos produced by the participants themselves and circulated anonymously on the internet. In The People Are Not An Image, Snowdon explores this radical shift in revolutionary self-representation, showing that the political consequences of these videos cannot be located without reference to their aesthetic form. Looking at videos from Tunisia, Bahrain, Syria, Libya, and Egypt, Snowdon attends closely to the circumstances of both their production and circulation, drawing on a wide range of historical and theoretical material, to discover what they can tell us about the potential for revolution in our time and the possibilities of video as a genuinely decentralized and vernacular medium.

Lifting the lid on the most compelling story in British politics today, Back from the Brink charts the Conservative Party's bumpy journey from the political wilderness to 10 Downing Street. With unprecedented access to key figures in the Conservative Party, including every leader from John Major to David Cameron, political journalist Peter Snowdon sheds new light on the dramatic decline and renaissance of the party that dominated 20th-century British politics. Back from the Brink is packed full of fresh insights into what really goes on behind closed doors at Westminster. It exposes the bitter rivalries and recriminations that blighted the Conservatives in opposition, and reveals the highs and lows of the 2010 general election campaign and the momentous negotiations that led to Britain's first post-war coalition government.

The Extraordinary Fall and Rise of the Conservative Party

Back from the Brink

he Conservative Party is Britain's most successful political party. For large parts of modern British history it has been the dominant party, though it has always suffered from internal division and periods of defeat. This colourful account of the Party's history since the late 18th century takes the reader on a voyage of discovery.

An Illustrated History

The Conservative Party

Five years in the making, Cameron at 10 is the gripping inside story of the Cameron premiership, based on over 300 in-depth interviews with senior figures in 10 Downing Street, including the Prime Minister himself. As dusk descended on 11 May 2010, David Cameron entered 10 Downing Street as the youngest prime minister since Lord Liverpool in 1812. He stood at the head of the first Coalition government in 65 years, with the country in dire economic straits following a deep financial crisis. From the early heady days of the Rose Garden partnership with the Liberal Democrats to the most bitterly contested general election in years, Cameron at 10 highlights forty dramatic moments in an exceptionally turbulent period in British politics. The book contains all the highs and lows on the domestic front as well as providing revealing insights into the Prime Minister s relationships with foreign leaders, particularly the German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US President Barack Obama. With unprecedented access to the inner circle of politicians and civil servants that surround the Prime Minister, from Chancellor George Osborne and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg to all of Cameron s personal team, this is the most intimate account of a serving prime minister that has ever been published."

Peter Snowdon

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