| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xxxii, 252 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 221-243. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Swift's premium ham : William Lyon Phelps and the redefinition of culture / Joan Shelley Rubin -- Small town editors and the "modernized" agrarian myth / John D. Stevens -- Anticipating the unexpected : Amazing stories in the interwar years / Michelle Herwald -- Tabloids as an urban response / James E. Murphy -- Women, cigarettes, and advertising in the 1920s : a study in the sociology of consumption / Michael Schudson -- Technology and the individual : the impact of innovation on communication / Richard A. Schwarzlose -- Americanizing the melting pot : the media as a megaphone for the restrictionists / Marion Marzolf -- This curious existence : journalistic identity in the interwar period / Michael Kirkhorn -- Mass media come to the small town : the Emporia gazette in the 1920s / Sally F. Griffith -- Publicity for the Great Depression : newspaper default and literary reportage / James Boylan -- Moral guardians of the movies and social responsibility of the press : two movements toward a moral center / Mark Fackler -- "We may hear too much" : American sensibility and the response to radio, 1919-1924 / Catherine L. Covert. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Subject |
Mass media -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Mass media. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Popular culture -- United States.
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Popular culture. |
| Added Author |
Covert, Catherine L.
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Stevens, John D.
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| ISBN |
0815623070 |
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9780815623076 |
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