press in britain (birkbeck) lecture

Histories of the Press I – Picture Post and the Post War Settlement, Journalism and the 60s

#1 Picture Post Magazine

1938-1957By 1943: 1,950,000 copies a week

Stefan LorantTom Hopkinson (1940 ff)Edward G HultonBert HardyGrace Robertson

Picture magazinePhotojournalism

The LeicaFast roll film

Journalism and photojournalismWartime Britain

The Home Guard‘What are we fighting for?’

Postwar Britain‘Homes fit for heroes’The Beveridge Report – ‘Plan for Britain’‘Britain’Butskillism

Text does not exist outside practicesText/practices do not exist outside ideasText/practices/ideas do not exist outside of

time.

#2 The new journalism

Tom WolfeHunter S ThompsonTruman CapoteNorman MailerMichael Herr

Scenes rather than historical narrativeDialogue in full. ConversationFirst-person point of view Author as participantEveryday details

What can you find that is ‘new’ in the form and content of a piece of New Journalism?

1963-1972Camelot and JFKBobby KennedyMartin Luther KingWatergateBlack Panthers

Pop ArtLSD StockhausenEarthrise 1968Mariner 1965Vietnam

Mai ’68Czech SpringChicago Democratic convention

New ways of seeing – point of viewNew powers – the great American Novel,

quotesDeath of dreams – punctuation, language,

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