Pages from the Past: History and Memory in American Magazines New Edition
Author(s): Carolyn Kitch (Author)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Publication Date: 5 Sept. 2005
Edition: New
Language: English
Print length: 268 pages
ISBN-10: 0807856495
Book Description
Countering the assumption that journalism is concerned only with the present, Kitch analyzes more than 60 American consumer magazines, from Newsweek and Rolling Stone to Black Enterprise and Reader’s Digest, to show how magazines actively participate in the construction of America’s historical memory.
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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.
From the Back Cover
Countering the assumption that journalism is concerned only with the present, Kitch analyzes more than 60 American consumer magazines, from “Newsweek”and “Rolling Stone” to “Black Enterprise”and “Reader’s Digest,” to show how magazines actively participate in the construction of America’s historical memory.
About the Author
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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