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Popular Media and the American Revolution - Shaping Collective Memory (Hardcover)
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Popular Media and the American Revolution - Shaping Collective Memory (Hardcover)
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The American Revolution-an event that gave America its first real
"story" as an independent nation, distinct from native and colonial
origins-continues to live on in the public's memory, celebrated
each year on July 4 with fireworks and other patriotic displays.
But to identify as an American is to connect to a larger national
narrative, one that begins in revolution. In Popular Media and the
American Revolution, journalism historian Janice Hume examines the
ways that generations of Americans have remembered and embraced the
Revolution through magazines, newspapers, and digital media.
Overall, Popular Media and the American Revolution demonstrates how
the story and characters of the Revolution have been adjusted,
adapted, and co-opted by popular media over the years, fostering a
cultural identity whose founding narrative was sculpted,
ultimately, in revolution. Examining press and popular media
coverage of the war, wartime anniversaries, and the Founding
Fathers (particularly, "uber-American hero" George Washington),
Hume provides insights into the way that journalism can and has
shaped a culture's evolving, collective memory of its past. Dr.
Janice Hume is a professor and head of the Department of Journalism
in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the
University of Georgia. She is author of Obituaries in American
Culture (University Press of Mississippi, 2000) and co-author of
Journalism in a Culture of Grief (Routledge, 2008).
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