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News Parade: The American Newsreel and the World as Spectacle
A fascinating look at the United States conflicted relationship with news and the media, through the lens of the newsreel When weekly newsreels launched in the early twentieth century, they offered the U.S. public the first weekly record of events that symbolized indisputable evidence of the news. In News Parade, Joseph Clark examines the history of the newsreel and how it changed the way Americans saw the world. He combines an examination of the newsreels methods of production, distribution, and reception with an analysis of its representational strategies to understand the newsreels place in the history of twentieth-century American culture and film history. Read more