News Parade: The American Newsreel and the World as Spectacle

by Joseph Clark

Book Overview

A fascinating look at the United States' conflicted relationship with news and the media, through the lens of the newsreel

When weekly newsreels launched in the early twentieth century, they offered the U.S. public the first weekly record of events that symbolized "indisputable evidence" of the news. In News Parade, Joseph Clark examines the history of the newsreel and how it changed the way Americans saw the world. He combines...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517903688
• ISBN13: 9781517903688
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"