Journalists in Film : : Heroes and Villains / / Brian McNair.

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748634477);We both love and hate our journalists. They are perceived as sexy and glamorous on the one hand, despicable and sleazy on the other. Opinion polls regularly indicate that we experience a kind of cultural schizophrenia in our relationship to jour...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2009
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 1 B/W tables 30 B/W halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Preface and acknowledgements
  • Part I Introductions and Overviews
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 A good tradition of love and hate
  • 3 Heroes and villains – an overview of journalism on film
  • 4 Journalism in Film: 1997–2008
  • Part II Heroes
  • 5 Watchdogs
  • 6 Witnesses
  • 7 Heroines
  • 8 Artists
  • Part III Villains
  • 9 Rogues, reptiles and repentant sinners
  • 10 Fabricators, fakers, fraudsters
  • 11 King-makers
  • 12 In closing
  • Appendix Films about journalism, 1997–2008
  • Bibliography
  • Index