News parade : the American newsreel and the world as spectacle / Joseph Clark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, Joseph, 1975- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Newsreels--United States--History--20th century.

Newsreels.

Newsreels--Social aspects--United States.

Motion picture journalism--United States--History--20th century.

Motion picture journalism.

War--Press coverage--United States--History--20th century.

War.

Mass media--Audiences.

Mass media.

War--Press coverage.

History.

Social aspects.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

263 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2020]

Summary:

"This book combines an examination of the newsreel's methods of production, distribution, and reception with an analysis of the form's representational strategies in order to understand the newsreel's place in the history of 20th-Century American culture and film history. It argues that the newsreel represents a crucial moment in the development of a spectacular society where media representations of reality became more fully integrated into commodity culture. Using several case studies, including the newsreel's coverage of Charles Lindbergh's trans-Atlantic flight and the Sino-Japanese War, this project shows how news film transformed the relationship between its audience and current events, as well as the social and political consequences of these changes. It pays particular attention to how discourses of race and gender worked together with the rhetoric of speed, mobility, and authority to establish the power and privilege of newsreel spectatorship"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. "History of the most graphic and thrilling sort" : the history of the newsreel, the newsreel as history

News parade : the logic of the newsreel system

Newsreel realism : redefining the real in motion picture news

"Heroes of the lens" : newsreel cameramen, the Sino-Japanese War, and looking as action

"Come along. We're going to the Trans-Lux to hiss Roosevelt" : modernity, virtual travel and the newsreel cinema as public forum

Double vision : World War Two, racial uplift, and politics of visibility in the all-American newsreel

Conclusion. News parade's gone by?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Clark, Joseph, 1975-. News parade.

ISBN:

9781517903671

151790367X

9781517903688

1517903688

OCLC:

1114274566