Graphic News - How Sensational Images Transformed Nineteenth-Century Journalism (Hardcover)

"You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war." This famous but apocryphal quote, long attributed to newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, encapsulates fears of the lengths to which news companies would go to exploit visual journalism in the late nineteenth century. From 1870 to 1900, newspapers disrupted conventional reporting methods with sensationalized line drawings. A fierce hunger for profits motivated the shift to emotion-driven, visual content. But the new approach, while popular, often targeted, and further marginalized, vulnerable groups. Amanda Frisken examines the ways sensational images of pivotal cultural events-obscenity litigation, anti-Chinese bloodshed, the Ghost Dance, lynching, and domestic violence-changed the public's consumption of the news. Using intersectional analysis, Frisken explores how these newfound visualizations of events during episodes of social and political controversy enabled newspapers and social activists alike to communicate-or challenge-prevailing understandings of racial, class, and gender identities and cultural power.

General

Imprint:	University of Illinois Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2020
Authors:	Amanda Frisken
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	292
ISBN-13:	978-0-252-04298-0
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Media, information & communication industries > Press & journalism Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > From 1900 > Reportage & collected journalism Books > History > American history > General
LSN:	0-252-04298-0
Barcode:	9780252042980

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