Making Pictorial Print - Media Literacy and Mass Culture in British Magazines, 1885-1918

Applying media theory to late-Victorian print, Making Pictorial Print shows how popular illustrated magazines developed a new design interface that encouraged dynamic engagement and media literacy in the British public.

List of contents

Introduction: A History of Victorian Print Media Literacy and the Technological Imagination
1. The Illustrated London News, Popular Illustrated Journalism, and the New Media Landscape, 1885-1907
2. Imagining Consumer Culture: Reading Advertisements in the Illustrated London News and the Graphic, 1885-1902
3. Imagining Political Subjectivity: Reading Data Visualizations in Pearson’s Magazine, 1896-1902
4. Imagining Print Production: Making Scrapbook Media, c.1830-1918
5. Imagining New Media Platforms: Taking Snapshots for the Strand, 1896-1918
Conclusion: Victorian Media Literacies and the Genealogy of the Present

About the author

By Alison Hedley

Summary

Applying media theory to late-Victorian print, Making Pictorial Print shows how popular illustrated magazines developed a new design interface that encouraged dynamic engagement and media literacy in the British public.

Product details

• Authors: Alison Hedley
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9781487506735
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-0673-5
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Studies in Book and Print Cult; Studies in Book and Print Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science