The Journalist in British Fiction and Film: Guarding the Guardians from 1900 to the Present

by Sarah Lonsdale

Why did Edwardian novelists portray journalists as swashbuckling, truth-seeking super-heroes whereas post-WW2 depictions present the journalist as alienated outsider? Why are contemporary fictional journalists often deranged, murderous or intensely vulnerable? As newspaper journalism faces the double crisis of a lack of trust post-Leveson, and a lack of influence in the fragmented internet age, how do cultural producers view journalists and their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474220533
• ISBN13: 9781474220538
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"