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Popular media and the American Revolution : shaping collective memory
- Title
- Popular media and the American Revolution : shaping collective memory / Janice Hume.
- Author
- Hume, Janice.
- Publication
- New York : Routledge, 2014.
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Details
- Description
- xix, 142 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "The American Revolution--an event that gave America its first real "story" as an independent nation, distinct from native and colonial origins--ontinues to live on in the public's memory, celebrated each year on July 4 with fireworks and other patriotic displays. But to identify as an American is to connect to a larger national narrative, one that begins in Revolution. In Popular Media and the American Revolution, journalism historian Janice Hume examines the ways that generations of Americans have remembered and embraced the Revolution through magazines, newspapers, and digital media. Overall, Popular Media and the American Revolution demonstrates how the story and characters of the Revolution have been adjusted, adapted, and co-opted by popular media over the years, fostering a cultural identity whose founding narrative was sculpted, ultimately, in Revolution. Examining press and popular media coverage of the war, wartime anniversaries, and the Founding Fathers (particularly, "uber-American hero" George Washington), Hume provides insights into the way that journalism can and has shaped a culture's evolving, collective memory of its past. Dr. Janice Hume is a professor and head of the Department of Journalism in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. She is author of Obituaries in American Culture (University Press of Mississippi, 2000) and co-author of Journalism in a Culture of Grief (Routledge, 2008). "--
- Subjects
- United States
- Collective memory
- HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
- American Revolution (1775-1783)
- Collective memory > United States
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
- United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783
- Mass media and history > United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Building the American Story -- 2."The Gathering Mists of Time" -- 3.The Nation's First Washington -- 4.The (Not Quite) Anniversary of Independence -- 5.American Characters -- 6."We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident" -- 7.The Electronic Revolution.
- Call Number
- JFE 15-7477
- ISBN
- 9780415538428 (hardback)
- 0415538424 (hardback)
- 9780415538435 (paperback)
- 0415538432 (paperback)
- 9780203109359 (ebook)
- 020310935X (ebook)
- LCCN
- 2013024171
- OCLC
- 852219187
- Author
- Hume, Janice.
- Title
- Popular media and the American Revolution : shaping collective memory / Janice Hume.
- Publisher
- New York : Routledge, 2014.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 15-7477