Graphic News

How Sensational Images Transformed Nineteenth-Century Journalism

Amanda Frisken (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

292 Seiten

2020
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08483-6 (ISBN)

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"You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war." This famous but apocryphal quote, long attributed to newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, encapsulates fears of the lengths to which news companies would go to exploit visual journalism in the late nineteenth century. From 1870 to 1900, newspapers disrupted conventional reporting methods with sensationalized line drawings. A fierce hunger for profits motivated the shift to emotion-driven, visual content. But the new approach, while popular, often targeted, and further marginalized, vulnerable groups. Amanda Frisken examines the ways sensational images of pivotal cultural events—obscenity litigation, anti-Chinese bloodshed, the Ghost Dance, lynching, and domestic violence—changed the public's consumption of the news. Using intersectional analysis, Frisken explores how these newfound visualizations of events during episodes of social and political controversy enabled newspapers and social activists alike to communicate—or challenge—prevailing understandings of racial, class, and gender identities and cultural power.

Amanda Frisken is a professor of American Studies at SUNY College at Old Westbury. She is the author of Victoria Woodhull's Sexual Revolution: Political Theater and the Popular Press in Nineteenth Century America.

CoverTitle PageCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Sensationalism and the Rise of Visual Journalism1. "We Simply Illustrate": Sensationalizing Crime in the 1870s "Sporting" News2. "Language More Effective than Words": Opium Den Illustrations and Anti-Chinese Violence3. "A First-Class Attraction on Any Stage": Dramatizing the Ghost Dance and the Massacre at Wounded Knee4. "A Song without Words": Anti-Lynching Imagery as Visual Protest in the 1890s Black Pres5. "Wanted to Save Her Honor": Sensationalizing the Provocation Defense in the Mid-1890sEpilogue: Legacies of Visual Journalism and the Sensational StyleNotesIndexBack cover

Erscheinungsdatum	24.03.2020
Zusatzinfo	116 black & white photographs
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	481 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-252-08483-7 / 0252084837
ISBN-13	978-0-252-08483-6 / 9780252084836
Zustand	Neuware