Description
Book Synopsis When talking pictures first appeared in cinema theaters in the late 1920s, films about newspaper journalists quickly became a Hollywood mainstay. These were a variety of responses from working reporters, editors, and photographers. The newspaper film was a popular genre in the 1950s, and famous films such as All the President''s Men (1976) and Spotlight (2015) have depicted the power of the press. Journalists have also been portrayed in films that are not specifically about newspapers, appearing in noir films like Woman on the Run (1950), Westerns such as Fort Worth (1951), comedies like The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966), musicals like Wake Up and Live (1937) and historical epics like Lawrence of Arabia (1962).
A film historian and former newspaper writer, the author investigates how accurately films have portrayed journalists across the decades. The book also details what journalists thought of the depictions at the time,
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter One. 1929–1939
- Chapter Two. Serial Reporters and Photographers
- Chapter Three. The 1940s
- Chapter Four. The Newspaper Photographer
- Chapter Five. The 1950s
- Chapter Six. Newspapers in Westerns
- Chapter Seven. The 1960s and 1970s
- Chapter Eight. Sportswriters
- Chapter Nine. The 1980s and 1990s
- Chapter Ten. War Correspondents
- Chapter Eleven. The 21st Century
- Chapter Twelve. Newspaperwomen
- Conclusion
- Chapter Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
