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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777525703321

Autore

Kitch Carolyn L

Titolo

Pages from the past [[electronic resource] ] : history and memory in American magazines / / Carolyn Kitch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, NC, : University of North Carolina Press, c2005

ISBN

979-88-908793-9-4

0-8078-7689-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 p.)

Disciplina

051

Soggetti

American periodicals

Journalism - Social aspects - United States

History in mass media

Memory - Social aspects - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-241) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 How We Lived: Summing Up the Twentieth Century; 2 A Working-Class Hero Is Something to Be: The Lasting Story of September 11th; 3 A News of Feeling as well as Fact: Public Mourning for the Dead Celebrity; 4 The Voices of the Past Speak to Us, Calling Us by Name: Counter-Memory and Living History in Magazines for African Americans; 5 The Celebrated Tribe: Generational Memory and the Reinterpretation of Youth; 6 Once upon a Time in America: Nostalgia Magazines and Reader Recollections

7 Snapshots in a Family Album: Anniversary Celebrations of a Shared PastEpilogue: The Present and Future of Media Memory; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

The glossy pages of American memory.