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Journalists in Film: Heroes and Villains
Brian McNair
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Description for Journalists in Film: Heroes and Villains
Hardback. A study of the representation of journalists on film and what this tells us about society's relationship with journalism and news media. Num Pages: 280 pages, 30 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: APF; JFD; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 558.
We both love and hate our journalists. They are perceived as sexy and glamorous on the one hand, despicable and sleazy on the other. Opinion polls regularly indicate that we experience a kind of cultural schizophrenia in our relationship to journalists and the news media: sometimes they are viewed as heroes, at other times villains. From Watergate to the fabrication scandals of the 2000s, journalists have risen and fallen in public esteem. In this book, leading journalism studies scholar Brian McNair explores how journalists have been represented through the prism of one of our key cultural forms, cinema. Drawing on ... Read more
We both love and hate our journalists. They are perceived as sexy and glamorous on the one hand, despicable and sleazy on the other. Opinion polls regularly indicate that we experience a kind of cultural schizophrenia in our relationship to journalists and the news media: sometimes they are viewed as heroes, at other times villains. From Watergate to the fabrication scandals of the 2000s, journalists have risen and fallen in public esteem. In this book, leading journalism studies scholar Brian McNair explores how journalists have been represented through the prism of one of our key cultural forms, cinema. Drawing on ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748634460
SKU
V9780748634460
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99-10
About Brian McNair
Brian McNair is Professor of Journalism and Communication at the University of Strathclyde. He is the author of many books and articles on journalism, media and culture-related themes, including 'News and Journalism in the UK' (2009), 'The Sociology of Journalism' (1998) and 'Cultural Chaos' (2006).
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