Read Journalists in Film: Heroes and Villains

Journalists in Film: Heroes and Villains

Brian McNair

4.9/5 (27550 ratings)

Description: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 the history of cinema since the 1930s, and with a focus on the period 1997-2008, McNair explores how journalists have been portrayed in film, and what these images tell us about the role of the journalist in liberal democratic societies. Separate chapters are devoted to the subject of female journalists in film, foreign correspondents, investigative reporters and other categories of news maker who have featured regularly in cinema. The book also discusses the representation of public relations professionals in film.Illustrated throughout and written in an accessible and lively style suitable for academic and lay readers alike, Journalists in Film will be essential reading for students and teachers of journalism, and for all those concerned about the role of the journalist in contemporary society, not least journalists themselves. An appendix contains mini-essays on every film about journalism released in the cinema between 1997 and 2008.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Journalists in Film: Heroes and Villains. To get started finding Journalists in Film: Heroes and Villains, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: 278

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Release: 2009

ISBN: 0748634487

Description: 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 the history of cinema since the 1930s, and with a focus on the period 1997-2008, McNair explores how journalists have been portrayed in film, and what these images tell us about the role of the journalist in liberal democratic societies. Separate chapters are devoted to the subject of female journalists in film, foreign correspondents, investigative reporters and other categories of news maker who have featured regularly in cinema. The book also discusses the representation of public relations professionals in film.Illustrated throughout and written in an accessible and lively style suitable for academic and lay readers alike, Journalists in Film will be essential reading for students and teachers of journalism, and for all those concerned about the role of the journalist in contemporary society, not least journalists themselves. An appendix contains mini-essays on every film about journalism released in the cinema between 1997 and 2008.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Journalists in Film: Heroes and Villains. To get started finding Journalists in Film: Heroes and Villains, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Journalists in Film: Heroes and Villains

Journalists in Film: Heroes and Villains

More Books

Striptease Culture: Sex, Media and the Democratisation of Desire

Striptease Culture: Sex, Media and the Democratisation of Desire

An Introduction to Political Communication (Communication and Society) (Volume 1)

An Introduction to Political Communication (Communication and Society) (Volume 1)

Political Communication Bundle

Political Communication Bundle

Glasnost, Perestroika and the Soviet Media (Communication and Society)

Glasnost, Perestroika and the Soviet Media (Communication and Society)

News and Journalism in the UK (Communication and Society)

News and Journalism in the UK (Communication and Society)

By McNair, Brian Cultural Chaos: Journalism and Power in a Globalised World Hardcover - May 2006

By McNair, Brian Cultural Chaos: Journalism and Power in a Globalised World Hardcover - May 2006

An Introduction to Political Communication (Communication and Society) by Brian McNair (2007-02-16)

An Introduction to Political Communication (Communication and Society) by Brian McNair (2007-02-16)

Cultural Chaos: Journalism and Power in a Globalised World by Brian McNair (2006-05-10)

Cultural Chaos: Journalism and Power in a Globalised World by Brian McNair (2006-05-10)