Outcasts: The Image of Journalists in Contemporary Film

by Howard Good

This book examines how representative films about journalism from the early 1960s to the mid-1980s allegorized the working life of the journalist. The central chapters deal with three popular images of journalists: the war correspondent, the scoop- crazed reporter or ratings-hungry TV executive, and the investigative journalist. Among the films discussed are The Green Berets, The Killing Fields, Under Fire, Absence of Malice, Network, The China...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810821621
• ISBN13: 9780810821620
• Release Date: February 1989
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Length: 195 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 8.9"