Issues of power, form and subjectivity are at the centre of all attempts to understand the media better. This book highlights both what we know and what we need to know, using regular examples to make its points. -- .
After 46 years, John Corner faces his estranged father in a suitcase marked: 'For Kay, wherever he might be.' The letters, pictures and other memorabilia that spill out led him to search for the father he hardly knew, resulting in an engaging and frank biography of an eminent scientist who put science above all, including his family.