An exploration of how our sense of politics, morality and culture is affected when we are exposed to gruesome images of accidents and disasters, murder and execution, grief and death. The author argues that documentary photography, for all the horror it reproduces, ultimately defines a democracy.
Based on his own extensive personal interviews with the writer, Santo L. Arico provides the definitive biography of Oriana Fallaci, a popular and flamboyant Italian journalist, war correspondent, and novelist who, in the public imagination, approaches mythical proportions and who, with every work she produces, creates and re-creates that myth. ......
This work documents the considerable damage done by the migration of cynical academic ideas into music journalism - demonstrated architypically by Kurt Cobain, a martyr to postmodernism in music journalism. The author synthesizes a number of fields: American and British academic and journalistic music criticism; aesthetic and literary history and ......
This work documents the considerable damage done by the migration of cynical academic ideas into music journalism - demonstrated architypically by Kurt Cobain, a martyr to postmodernism in music journalism. The author synthesizes a number of fields: American and British academic and journalistic music criticism; aesthetic and literary history and ......
Written by William E. Berry, Sandra Braman, Clifford Christians, Thomas G. Guback, Steven J. Helle, Louis W. Liebovich, John C. Nerone, and Kim B. Rotzoll In Last Rights, eight communications scholars at the University of Illinois critique and expand on an influential classic that has been used as text or whipping boy in communications and ......
Investigative Reporting and Agenda Building in America
This book is the first systematic study of investigative reporting in the post-Watergate era. The authors examine the historical roots, contemporary nature, and societal impact of this controversial form of reporting, which they call "the journalism of outrage." Contrary to the conventional wisdom that depicts muckrakers and policymakers as ......
Publishing Articles on American and English Language and Literature, Criticism and Theory, Film, American Studies, Poetry and Fiction
The Fifth Directory of Periodicals is expressly organized for scholars in the humanities who are looking for appropriate places to submit manuscripts for publication. The Fourth Directory, published by Donna Gerstenberger and George Hendrick in 1974, provided access to a large selection of periodicals, but it has been out of print for some time. ......
A companion volume to Wing's Short-Title Catalogue, this book provides the first comprehensive union list of all known British serials of the period. Each serial is listed alphabetically by first title. The first entry for a particular periodical includes a uniform title along with inclusive dates, format, average length, periodicity, editor or ......
