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Murder in Parisian Streets
Thomas Cragin
其他書名
Manufacturing Crime and Justice in the Popular Press, 1830-1900
出版Bucknell University Press, 2006
主題Language Arts & Disciplines / Journalism
ISBN08387557989780838755792
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=dG0pdOLSleoC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This book provides an in-depth study of the production, sale, and content of the sensational canards - cheap news broad-sheets and booklets. It demonstrates the enormous popularity of this old news genre throughout the nineteenth century and its critical influence upon the eventual success of the mass-circulation tabloids, challenging much that scholars assume about the country's revolution in print. Informed by folkloric and cultural studies as well as literary theory, the book explores the incremental creation of textual meaning in the canards' authorship, production, distribution, and consumption. While the canards bear the stamp of modernization both through their makers' adaptation to innovations in manufacture and sale as well as in some of their content, Cragin exposes their resistance to the controls of the modern state and the ideas of modern criminal justice. The canard makers' resistance to new ideas about crime and justice, in turn, reveals surprising continuities in the popular imagination and its images of criminals, victims, policemen, courts, and punishment. canards constructed an internally coherent universe for their readers that defined social conflict entirely within a moral and supernatural context. The book also reveals the melodramatic presentation of news, transporting [illegible] terrors and triumphs of crime and justice into the everyday lives of the French. It is illustrated with ninety-seven black-and white images. Thomas Cragin is an Associate Professor [illegible] History at Muhlenberg College.