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The Journalist in British Fiction and Film - Guarding the Guardians from 1900 to the Present (Hardcover)
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The Journalist in British Fiction and Film - Guarding the Guardians from 1900 to the Present (Hardcover)
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Why did Edwardian novelists portray journalists as swashbuckling,
truth-seeking super-heroes whereas post-WW2 depictions present the
journalist as alienated outsider? Why are contemporary fictional
journalists often deranged, murderous or intensely vulnerable? As
newspaper journalism faces the double crisis of a lack of trust
post-Leveson, and a lack of influence in the fragmented internet
age, how do cultural producers view journalists and their role in
society today? In The Journalist in British Fiction and Film Sarah
Lonsdale traces the ways in which journalists and newspapers have
been depicted in fiction, theatre and film from the dawn of the
mass popular press to the present day. The book asks first how
journalists were represented in various distinct periods of the
20th century and then attempts to explain why these representations
vary so widely. This is a history of the British press, told not by
historians and sociologists, but by writers and directors as well
as journalists themselves. In uncovering dozens of forgotten
fictions, Sarah Lonsdale explores the bare-knuckled literary combat
conducted by writers contesting the disputed boundaries between
literature and journalism. Within these texts and films there is
perhaps also a clue as to how the best aspects of 'Fourth estate'
journalism can survive in the digital age. Authors covered in the
volume include: Martin Amis, Graham Greene, George Orwell, Pat
Barker, Evelyn Waugh, Elizabeth Bowen, Arnold Wesker and Rudyard
Kipling. Television and films covered include House of Cards (US
and UK versions), Spotlight, Defence of the Realm, Secret State and
State of Play.
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