Graphic News: How Sensational Images Transformed Nineteenth-Century Journalism

Awards:   Winner of <DIV><I>Choice</I> Outstanding Academic Title, 2020</DIV> 2020
Author:   Amanda Frisken
Publisher:   University of Illinois Press
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Pages:   292
Publication Date:   23 March 2020
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  • Winner of <DIV><I>Choice</I> Outstanding Academic Title, 2020</DIV> 2020

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”You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.” This famous but apocryphal quote, long attributed to newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, encapsulates fears of the lengths to which news companies would go to exploit visual journalism in the late nineteenth century. From 1870 to 1900, newspapers disrupted conventional reporting methods with sensationalized line drawings. A fierce hunger for profits motivated the shift to emotion-driven, visual content. But the new approach, while popular, often targeted, and further marginalized, vulnerable groups. Amanda Frisken examines the ways sensational images of pivotal cultural events—obscenity litigation, anti-Chinese bloodshed, the Ghost Dance, lynching, and domestic violence—changed the public's consumption of the news. Using intersectional analysis, Frisken explores how these newfound visualizations of events during episodes of social and political controversy enabled newspapers and social activists alike to communicate—or challenge—prevailing understandings of racial, class, and gender identities and cultural power.

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Author:   Amanda Frisken
Publisher:   University of Illinois Press
Imprint:   University of Illinois Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
ISBN:  

9780252042980


ISBN 10:   0252042980
Pages:   292
Publication Date:   23 March 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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A worthy endeavor that engages major social and cultural issues and makes a significant contribution to the history of visual journalism in the United States. --John Coward, author of Indians Illustrated: Images of Native Americans in the Pictorial Press A deeply researched and acutely observed social and cultural history of journalism that, with particular attention to popular visual media, delineates the ways publications' reportorial conventions and practices shaped and were shaped by the era's gender, race, and class relations. --Joshua Brown, author of Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America


A worthy endeavor that engages major social and cultural issues and makes a significant contribution to the history of visual journalism in the United States.--John Coward, author of Indians Illustrated: Images of Native Americans in the Pictorial Press --Joshua Brown, author of Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America A deeply researched and acutely observed social and cultural history of journalism that, with particular attention to popular visual media, delineates the ways publications' reportorial conventions and practices shaped and were shaped by the era's gender, race, and class relations.


A comprehensive and thoughtful exploration of the role of sensationalism in visual news, Graphic News will be of particular value for scholars and students of late nineteenth-century visual culture, journalism history, communication, and American Studies. --Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era A deeply researched and acutely observed social and cultural history of journalism that, with particular attention to popular visual media, delineates the ways publications' reportorial conventions and practices shaped and were shaped by the era's gender, race, and class relations. -Joshua Brown, author of Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America A worthy endeavor that engages major social and cultural issues and makes a significant contribution to the history of visual journalism in the United States. -John Coward, author of Indians Illustrated: Images of Native Americans in the Pictorial Press An intriguing analysis of the manner in which sensational pictorial representations altered US journalism during the final three decades of the 19th century. . . . Well researched with an extensive reliance on primary documents. --Choice


Author Information

Amanda Frisken is a professor of American Studies at SUNY College at Old Westbury. She is the author of Victoria Woodhull's Sexual Revolution: Political Theater and the Popular Press in Nineteenth Century America.

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