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Sophisticated and accessible, with a depth and range that lends an impressive resonance, News Parade quickly convinced me that the study of the newsreel is a vital topic in the analysis of American culture. In Joseph Clark's hands, the emergence of spectatorship as a formative dimension of collective identity in the modern world is made clear and articulated in a wide variety of specific historical and social contexts. -Robert Burgoyne, author of Film Nation: Hollywood Looks at U.S. History, Revised Edition With historians returning at last to the neglected institution of the newsreel, Joseph Clark's News Parade becomes the key study of this significant element of cinema experience, journalism, and media industries. Lucidly written, it deftly conveys the enormity of six decades of newsfilm production and thousands of hours of surviving footage. This book is the most significant history of American newsreels published in the last fifty years. -Dan Streible, New York University News Parade should be commended for raising important questions about the future directions that media studies might take... News Parade will certainly be a key reference for the important but underappreciated newsreel medium for the foreseeable future. -Journal of Cinema and Media Studies A welcome contribution to a scandalously unplowed field in the realm of film studies. -Cineaste Magazine

Sophisticated and accessible, with a depth and range that lends an impressive resonance, News Parade quickly convinced me that the study of the newsreel is a vital topic in the analysis of American culture. In Joseph Clark's hands, the emergence of spectatorship as a formative dimension of collective identity in the modern world is made clear and articulated in a wide variety of specific historical and social contexts. -Robert Burgoyne, author of Film Nation: Hollywood Looks at U.S. History, Revised Edition With historians returning at last to the neglected institution of the newsreel, Joseph Clark's News Parade becomes the key study of this significant element of cinema experience, journalism, and media industries. Lucidly written, it deftly conveys the enormity of six decades of newsfilm production and thousands of hours of surviving footage. This book is the most significant history of American newsreels published in the last fifty years. -Dan Streible, New York University

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Joseph Clark is lecturer in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University.

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