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The Dream of a New Social Order: Popular Magazines in America, 1893–1914
Matthew Schneirov
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Hardback. This study explores how magazines became the first mass medium in the USA and how they expressed a new American culture built on dreams of a better future. The author argues that the birth of the popular magazine at the turn of the 20th century laid the foundations of the modern consumer culture. Num Pages: 357 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JFC; JFD; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
This study explores how magazines became the first mass medium in the USA and how they expressed a new American culture based on "dreams" of a better future. Schneirov argues that the birth of the popular magazine at the turn of the century helped to form the foundations of contemporary consumer culture. Revolutionary concepts and products from the skyscraper to the automobile were extolled in these publications as symbols of the might of science and technology that would irrevocably change modern living. Photographs from 19th-and 20th-century magazines interspersed throughout the text illustrate the impetus to dream of a new social ... Read more
This study explores how magazines became the first mass medium in the USA and how they expressed a new American culture based on "dreams" of a better future. Schneirov argues that the birth of the popular magazine at the turn of the century helped to form the foundations of contemporary consumer culture. Revolutionary concepts and products from the skyscraper to the automobile were extolled in these publications as symbols of the might of science and technology that would irrevocably change modern living. Photographs from 19th-and 20th-century magazines interspersed throughout the text illustrate the impetus to dream of a new social ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
357
Condition
New
Number of Pages
357
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231082907
SKU
V9780231082907
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