True Story - How a Pulp Empire Remade Mass Media

Focusing on Bernarr Macfadden, a bodybuilder turned publishing mogul, Shanon Fitzpatrick charts the rise and export of US mass media and consumer culture. Macfadden's magazines-featuring fitness tips, celebrity gossip, and sensational "true" stories-created an enduring editorial template and powered worldwide demand for interactive American media.

Info autore

Shanon Fitzpatrick is a historian and editorial consultant. Her work, including Body and Nation, coedited with Emily S. Rosenberg, focuses on relationships among twentieth-century mass media, body politics, and empire.

Riassunto

Focusing on Bernarr Macfadden, a bodybuilder turned publishing mogul, Shanon Fitzpatrick charts the rise and export of US mass media and consumer culture. Macfadden’s magazines—featuring fitness tips, celebrity gossip, and sensational “true” stories—created an enduring editorial template and powered worldwide demand for interactive American media.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Marnie S. Anderson, Shanon Fitzpatrick, Fitzpatrick Shanon
• Editore: Harvard University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.07.2022
• EAN: 9780674268012
• ISBN: 978-0-674-26801-2
• Pagine: 320
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Media, comunicazione > Mediologia; USA, Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, Biography: business & industry, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, Press & journalism, United States of America, USA, Biography: business and industry, News media and journalism, Media studies: Journalism, Consumerism, Publishing industry & book trade, Publishing and book trade