The form of news : a history /
"This book offers a fresh perspective on the history of newspapers in the United States. Although most scholars think the newspaper works through its content, this history looks deeper into form: ways of writing; systems of organization; and genres of presentation, including typography, space,...
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New York :
Guilford Press,
©2001.
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| Series: | Guilford communication series.
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Table of Contents:
- The form of news: style, production, and social meaning
- Part I. Before modernism: symbols of citizens. The founding forms: politics and the work of newspapers, 1750-1850 ; Commercialization: the newspaper and the market revolution, 1780s-1880s
- Part II: The role of pictures: playful commerce. Civic picturing: the regime of illustrated news, 1856-1901 ; The president is dead: pictures and journalistic values, 1881-1963
- Part III: The rise of modernism: conveyor of facts. The front page: measuring modernisms and its phases, 1885-1985 ; Visual mapping: modern design and cultural authority, 1920-1940
- Part IV: After modernism: icon of isolation. Beyond modernism: Americanization and its consequences, 1910-2000 ; Spectators and their spectacles: forms of knowledge, forms of power.
