We both love and hate our journalists. Perceived as sexy and glamorous on theone 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 1990s, 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, McNairexplores how journalists have been portrayed on film, and what these images tell us about the role of the journalist in liberal democratic societies. Illustrated throughout, the volume contains an appendix of mini-essays covering films from 1997 to 2008. Journalism in Film will be essential reading for students and teachers of journalism, and to all of those concerned about the role of the journalist in contemporary society.
- ISBN: 978-0-7486-3446-0
- Editorial: Edinburgh University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha Publicación: 01/01/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés