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Author Underwood, Doug, author.

Title Chronicling trauma : journalists and writers on violence and loss / Doug Underwood.

Publication Info. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (244 pages).
text file
Series The history of communication
History of communication.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction. Trauma, news, and narrative: the study of violence and loss in journalism and fiction -- Stories of harm, stories of hazard: childhood stress and professional trauma in the careers of journalist-literary figures -- Trafficking in trauma: women's rights, civil rights, and sensationalism as a spur to social justice -- Trauma in war, trauma in life: the pose of the "heroic" battlefield correspondent -- Depression, drink, and dissipation: dysfunctional lifestyles and art as the ultimate stimulant -- Epilogue. New challenges, new treatments: trauma and the contemporary journalist-literary figure.
Summary A searing study of the intersection of journalism, fiction, and traumatic violence.
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Subject Violence -- Press coverage.
Violence -- Press coverage.
Psychic trauma -- Press coverage.
Psychic trauma.
Press coverage.
War correspondents -- Mental health.
War correspondents.
Mental health.
Authors, American -- Psychology.
Authors, American -- Psychology.
Authors, American.
Violence in literature.
Violence in literature.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
Journalists.
United States.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Journalists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Great Britain.
Journalism and literature -- United States.
Journalism and literature.
Journalism and literature -- Great Britain.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Underwood, Doug. Chronicling trauma. Urbana, Chicago : University of Illinois Press, ©2011 9780252036408 (DLC) 2011012406 (OCoLC)710045168
ISBN 9780252093432 (electronic book)
0252093437 (electronic book)
9780252036408
0252036409
1283292947
9781283292948
Standard No. 9786613292940