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The Drunken Journalist - The Biography of a Film Stereotype (Hardcover)
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The Drunken Journalist - The Biography of a Film Stereotype (Hardcover)
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"No other human problem," a critic once remarked, "seems to have
afflicted movie newspapermen more often than drinking." Howard
Good's latest book analyzes the stereotype of the hard-drinking
journalist, with the goal of discovering why it exists and how it
operates in films. Early chapters consider whether there is a
historical basis for the stereotype of the hard-drinking
journalist;while later chapters deal with films from across the
decades, including the 1980s and 1990s. They identify the fate of
the romantic couple as a major if not the major concern of silent
films featuring drunken journalists; explore the many and often
conflicting meanings associated with drinking in the 1930s, the
so-called "golden age of newspaper films"; and discuss the
influence of Alcoholics Anonymous on such newspaper films of the
1940s and 1950s as Welcome Stranger and Come Fill the Cup. The
concluding chapter points out that the dominant culture has
frequently marginalized subgroups for example, Native Americans and
Irish immigrants by stereotyping them as drunks, and theorizes that
the stereotype of the hard-drinking journalist signals ambivalence
not only about drinking, but also about the effects of the press on
American life. Written in the clear, incisive style for which Good
is known, this book offers illuminating new interpretations of
classic newspaper films from The Front Page to All the President's
Men. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the implications of
popular culture for how we think and live.
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