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The Press and Popular Culture

First Edition

February 2002 | 194 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

In this book, Martin Conboy unpicks the complex and dynamic relationship between the popular press and popular culture. Rejecting approaches to popular culture which restrict themselves to the contemporary, Conboy argues for the importance of an historical perspective in understanding the contemporary relationship between the popular and the press.

The Press and Popular Culture offers:

  • A much-needed critical history of the popular press -from the Early Modern Period to the present day
  • A comparative analysis of the emergence of the popular press in the US and Britain
  • An approach to the role played by the popular press in the formation of popular culture which emphasizes the use of language 

 
Introduction: Popular Press
Theory and History

 
 
Popularizing the People
 
The Popular Press as Popular Culture
 
The American Popular Press in the Nineteenth Century
 
The English Popular Press in the Early Nineteenth Century
 
Commercializing the Popular in Britain
 
The New Journalism
The Long Version

 
 
The Popular Press
Surviving Postmodernity

 
 
Integrating Approaches to Contemporary Popular Culture

“In the Press and Popular Culture, Martin Conboy aims to provide a critical history of the popular press. Conboy reconstructs the development of rhetorical strategies through which the popular press tried to align itself with the cultural practice of its readers.”

Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research

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