Jim Cullen

A Short History of the Modern Media

Ed. by Jim Cullen

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A Short History of the Modern Media presents a concise history of the major media of the last 150 years, including print, stage, film, radio, television, sound recording, and the Internet.

Offers a compact, teaching-friendly presentation of the history of mass media
Features a discussion of works in popular culture that are well-known and easily available
Presents a history of modern media that is strongly interdisciplinary in nature

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9781444351415
• ISBN-10: 1444351419
• Artikelnr.: 38022705

Autorenporträt

Jim Cullen is Chair of the History Department at the Fieldston School in New York and a book review editor at the History News Network. He is the author of a dozen books, including Imperfect Presidents: Tales of Misadventure and Triumph (2007), Essaying the Past: How to Read, Write and Think about History, 2nd edition (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), and Sensing the Past: Hollywood Stars and Historical Visions (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction: Medium Message 1
Overview 2 Further Reading 11 1 Print's Run: Publishing as Popular Culture
13 Overview 14 Genre Study / Terrifying pleasures: Horror 31 Document Study
/ The ravenous imagination of Edgar Allan Poe 38 Document Study / Carrie:
Princess of blood, King of horror 44 Further Reading 49 2 Dramatic
Developments: The World of the Stage 51 Overview 52 Genre Study / Notes
from the stage: The Broadway musical 69 Document Study / Show Boat: High
tide of the American musical 77 Further Reading 83 3 Reel Life: The Art
ofMotion Pictures 85 Overview 86 Genre Study / Horse sense: The logic of
the western 102 Document Study / The Searchers: Monumental western 111
Further Reading 116 4 MakingWaves: Radio in American Life 119 Overview 120
Genre Study / Worlds away: Science fiction 134 Document Study / The Mercury
Theater on the Air: Worlds war 142 Document Study / Buck Rogers: Finding
time (in space) 149 Further Reading 153 5 Channels of Opportunity: The Arc
of Television Broadcasting 155 Overview 156 Genre Study / Screened
realities: Situation comedy 173 Document Study / Seriously funny: I Love
Lucy 181 Further Reading 187 6 Sound Investments: The Evolution of Sound
Recording 190 Overview 191 Genre Study / Joyful blues: The rise and fall of
rock and roll 213 Document Study / ''Beat It'': The integration of Michael
Jackson 224 Document Study / Speak Now: The gently assertive voice of
Taylor Swift 232 Further Reading 237 7 Weaving the Web: The Emergence of
the Internet 240 Overview 241 Genre Study / Shared exchanges: Social media
260 Document Study / Wikipedia: The wisdom of crowds 268 Further Reading
274 Index 277

Rezensionen

"Until now, there has not been a teachable history of mass media. Cullen's deftly distilled historiographies will please teachers and the well-chosen genre essays and case studies will inspire great classroom discussions."
--Andrew Haley, The University of Southern Mississippi

"With its informative overviews and rich document studies, A Short History of the Modern Media should prove an essential work for any course on the history and meaning of modern media."
--Louis P. Masur, Rutgers University

"An excellent introduction to the technologies, industries, cultural forms, and genres that constitute our media landscape. Cullen shows that the history of our media is in many ways the history of our sociality and our intimacies."
--Matthew Frye Jacobson, Yale University