1800s news industry
advertising in early newspapers
bourgeois and working-class audiences
British and American newspaper history parallels
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commercialization of information
communication networks of the past
cultural production and capitalism
culture of readership
democratization of information
development of tabloid-style techniques
entertainment and politics crossover
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European intellectual history
European media studies
evolution of reporting styles
formation of modern consumers
gender representation in early photography
German popular journalism roots
historical media audiences
history of journalism in France
ideological influence of media
illustrated periodicals
illustrated reportage origins
industrialization and communication
journalism and visual arts
journalism history scholarship
literacy and mass readership
media and class formation
media and consumer society
media and identity formation
media and modernity
media innovation in the 1800s
news and social change
newspapers as cultural artifacts
political communication history
popular culture studies
press and public opinion
press and revolution imagery
print and urban life
readership expansion in Europe
rise of popular newspapers
satire and caricature in media
sensationalism in historical media
serialized content and feuilletons
slang and street language in print
spectacle in early mass media
transatlantic press comparisons
urban readers and class identity
visual culture and news
women in revolutionary imagery
Product details
- ISBN 9781558491779
- Weight: 570g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 06 Apr 1999
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Much recent writing on print culture has focused on the social and political implications of the transition from ""elite"" to ""mass"" culture in the 1800s. The essays in this volume aim to add to the understanding of the role of the 19th-century French press in producing the commodities, consumers and ideological frameworks that are the hallmarks of this shift. The book also offers an opportunity for useful comparisons with recent scholarship on the rise of the popular press in the United States, Great Britain and Germany. The essays address a wide range of topics, from the emergence of commercial daily newspapers during the July Monarchy to the photographic representation of women in the Paris Commune. Together they demonstrate that the French mass press was far more heterogeneous than previously supposed, tapping into an expanding readership composed of a variety of publics - from affluent bourgeois to disaffected workers to disenfranchised women. It was also relentlessly innovative, using caricature, argot, advertisements and other attention-grabbing techniques that blurred the lines separating art, politics and the news.
