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The journalist in British fiction and film : guarding the guardians from 1900 to the present /
"Why did Edwardian novelists portray journalists as swashbuckling, truth-seeking super-heroes whereas post-WW2 depictions present the journalist as alienated outsider? Why are contemporary fictional journalists often deranged, murderous or intensely vulnerable? As newspaper journalism faces the...
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Epigraph; Acknowledgements; Introduction: A Century of Guarding the Guardians; 1 Edwardian Journalist-Heroes at the Birth of the Popular Press; 2 Despatches from the Trenches: Poets as War Correspondents; 3 'The interview with the cat had been particularly full of appeal': The Interwar 'Battle of the Brows' from Below; 4 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Hack: Journalism and Espionage in a Time of War 1933-1979; 5 'I call my cancer
- the main one in my pancreas
- Rupert': The Press Baron from Northcliffe to Murdoch.
- 6 'A journalist's finished at forty, of course': Alienation, Disenchantment, Irrelevance in the Post-War 'Age of Anxiety'7 From Plucky Pioneers to 'Dish Bitches': The 'Problem' of Women Journalists; 8 'Now we don't even have anyone in fucking Manchester': Falling Apart in the 'Last Chance Saloon'; Conclusion: 'People should probably have newsprint on their hands when they read it': Imagining Journalism in the Internet Age in Britain and the United States; Bibliography; Index.