The form of news : a history
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The form of news : a history
(The Guilford communication series)
Guilford Press, c2001
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 311-317
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book takes a fresh look at the role of the newspaper in United States civic culture. Unlike other histories which focus only on the content of newspapers, this book digs deeper into ways of writing, systems of organizing content, and genres of presentation, including typography and pictures. The authors examine how these elements have combined to give newspapers a distinctive look at every historical moment, from the colonial to the digital eras. They reveal how the changing form of news reflects such major social forces as the rise of mass politics, the industrial revolution, the growth of the market economy, the course of modernism, and the emergence of the Internet. Whether serving as town meeting, court of opinion, marketplace, social map, or catalog of diversions, news forms are also shown to embody cultural authority, allowing readers to see and relate to the world from a particular perspective. Including over 70 illustrations, the book explores such compelling themes as the role of news in a democratic society, the relationship between news and visual culture, and the ways newspapers have shaped the meaning of citizenship.
Winner of the International Communication Association Outstanding Book Award
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. The Form of News: Style, Production, and Social Meaning, 1750-2000
Part I. Before Modernism
Chapter 2. The Founding Forms: Politics and the Work of Newspapers, 1750-1850
Chapter 3. Commercialization: The Newspaper and the Market Revolution, 1780s-1880s
Part II. The Role of Pictures
Chapter 4. Civic Picturing: The Regime of Illustrated News, 1856-1901
Chapter 5. The President Is Dead: Pictures and Journalistic Values, 1881-1963
Part III. The Rise of Modernism
Chapter 6. The Front Page: Measuring Modernism and Its Phases, 1885-1985
Chapter 7. Visual Mapping: Modern Design and Cultural Authority, 1920-1940
Part IV. After Modernism
Chapter 8. Beyond Modernism: Americanization and Its Consequences, 1910-2000
Chapter 9. Spectators and Their Spectacles: Forms of Knowledge, Forms of Power
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Index
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