Pages From The Past: History And Memory In American Magazines - Hardcover

Kitch, Carolyn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807829676 ISBN 13: 9780807829677

Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

American popular magazines play a role in our culture similar to that of public historians, Carolyn Kitch contends. Drawing on evidence from the pages of more than sixty magazines, including Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Black Enterprise, Ladies' Home Journal, and Reader's Digest, Kitch examines the role of journalism in creating collective memory and identity for Americans.

Editorial perspectives, visual and narrative content, and the tangibility and keepsake qualities of magazines make them key repositories of American memory, Kitch argues. She discusses anniversary celebrations that assess the passage of time; the role of race in counter-memory; the lasting meaning of celebrities who are mourned in the media; cyclical representations of generational identity, from the Greatest Generation to Generation X; and anticipated memory in commemoration after crisis events such as those of September 11, 2001.

Bringing a critically neglected form of journalism to the forefront, Kitch demonstrates that magazines play a special role in creating narratives of the past that reflect and inform who we are now.

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CAROLYN KITCH is associate professor of journalism at Temple University and author of The Girl on the Magazine Cover: The Origins of Visual Stereotypes in American Mass Media.

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Countering the assumption that journalism is concerned only with the present, Kitch analyzes more than 60 American consumer magazines, from Newsweekand Rolling Stone to Black Enterpriseand Reader's Digest, to show how magazines actively participate in the construction of America's historical memory.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0807829676
• ISBN 13: 9780807829677
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
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