LEADER 03968nam 22006492 450 001 9910792585203321 005 20151002020706.0 010 $a0-7486-7092-0 010 $a1-282-62022-3 010 $a9786612620225 010 $a0-7486-3448-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9780748634484 035 $a(CKB)2670000000027931 035 $a(EBL)537018 035 $a(OCoLC)650457714 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000421433 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11269116 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000421433 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10406552 035 $a(PQKB)10964595 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780748634484 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000092817 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL537018 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10391775 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL262022 035 $a(DE-B1597)614166 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780748634484 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC537018 035 $a(OCoLC)1302162825 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000027931 100 $a20130322d2010|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aJournalists in film $eheroes and villains /$fBrian McNair$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aEdinburgh :$cEdinburgh University Press,$d2010. 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 267 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-7486-3446-0 311 $a0-7486-3447-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [253]-256) and index. 327 $aIntroductions and overviews. Introduction ; A good tradition of love and hate ; Heroes and villains : an overview of journalism on film ; Journalism in film : 1997-2008 -- Heroes. Watchdogs ; Witnesses ; Heroines ; Artists -- Villains. Rogues, reptiles and repentant sinners ; Fabricators, fakers, fraudsters ; King-makers ; In closing -- Appendix : films about journalism, 1997-2008. 330 $aWe 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 journalists and the news media: sometimes they are viewed as heroes, at other times villains. From Watergate to the fabrication scandals of the 2000s, journalists have risen and fallen in public esteem. In this book, leading journalism studies scholar Brian McNair explores how journalists have been represented through the prism of one of our key cultural forms, cinema. Drawing on the history of cinema since the 1930s, and with a focus on the period 1997-2008, McNair explores how journalists have been portrayed in film, and what these images tell us about the role of the journalist in liberal democratic societies. Separate chapters are devoted to the subject of female journalists in film, foreign correspondents, investigative reporters and other categories of news maker who have featured regularly in cinema. The book also discusses the representation of public relations professionals in film. Illustrated throughout and written in an accessible and lively style suitable for academic and lay readers alike, Journalists in Film will be essential reading for students and teachers of journalism, and for all those concerned about the role of the journalist in contemporary society, not least journalists themselves. An appendix contains mini-essays on every film about journalism released in the cinema between 1997 and 2008. 606 $aJournalists in motion pictures 606 $aMotion pictures$xHistory 615 0$aJournalists in motion pictures. 615 0$aMotion pictures$xHistory. 676 $a791.4369 700 $aMcNair$b Brian$f1959-$0541851 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792585203321 996 $aJournalists in film$93697325 997 $aUNINA