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Pages from the Past
Carolyn Kitch
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Description for Pages from the Past
Paperback. The glossy pages of American memory. Num Pages: 272 pages, 24 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFD; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 146 x 16. Weight in Grams: 372.
The glossy pages of American memory 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; ... Read more
The glossy pages of American memory 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; ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807856499
SKU
V9780807856499
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About Carolyn Kitch
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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