The Drunken Journalist: The Biography of a Film Stereotype

by Howard Good

"No other human problem," a critic once remarked, "seems to have afflicted movie newspapermen more often than drinking." Howard Good's latest book analyzes the stereotype of the hard-drinking journalist, with the goal of discovering why it exists and how it operates in films.

Early chapters consider whether there is a historical basis for the stereotype of the hard-drinking journalist;while later chapters deal with films from across the decades,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081083717X
• ISBN13: 9780810837171
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.8"