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OverviewThe glossy pages of American memory American popular magazines play a role in our culture similar to that of public historians, Carolyn Kitch contends. Drawing on evidence from the pages of more than sixty magazines, including Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Black Enterprise, Ladies' Home Journal, and Reader's Digest, Kitch examines the role of journalism in creating collective memory and identity for Americans. Editorial perspectives, visual and narrative content, and the tangibility and keepsake qualities of magazines make them key repositories of American memory, Kitch argues. She discusses anniversary celebrations that assess the passage of time; the role of race in counter-memory; the lasting meaning of celebrities who are mourned in the media; cyclical representations of generational identity, from the Greatest Generation to Generation X; and anticipated memory in commemoration after crisis events such as those of September 11, 2001. Bringing a critically neglected form of journalism to the forefront, Kitch demonstrates that magazines play a special role in creating narratives of the past that reflect and inform who we are now. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Carolyn KitchPublisher: The University of North Carolina Press Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press Edition: New edition ISBN: 9780807829677ISBN 10: 0807829676 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 30 September 2005 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: In Print  Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsChapter 1. How We Lived: Summing Up the Twentieth Century; Chapter 2. A Working-Class Hero Is Something to Be: The Lasting Story of September 11th; Chapter 3. A News of Feeling as well as Fact: Public Mourning for the Dead Celebrity; Chapter 4. The Voices of the Past Speak to Us, Calling Us by Name: Counter-Memory and Living History in Magazines for African Americans; Chapter 5. The Celebrated Tribe: Generational Memory and the Reinterpretation of Youth; Chapter 6. Once Upon a Time in America: Nostalgia Magazines and Reader Recollections; Chapter 7. Snapshots in a Family Album: Anniversary Celebrations of a Shared Past; Epilogue: The Present and Future of Media Memory.ReviewsAuthor InformationCAROLYN KITCH is associate professor of journalism at Temple University and author of The Girl on the Magazine Cover: The Origins of Visual Stereotypes in American Mass Media. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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