Title: Turning the century : essays in media and cultural studies /
Authors: Stabile, Carol A.
Publisher: Westview Press,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Mass media and culture United States History; Mass media and culture United States History; Popular culture United States History
Contents: Introduction / Carol A. Stabile. -- Sound out of time : modernity's echo / Jonathan Sterne. -- Maintaining the order of things : class, the gospel of scientific efficiency, and the invention of policy expertise in America, 1865-1921 / Amos Tevelow. -- Sensationalism, objectivity, and reform in turn-of-the-century America / Mark Harrison. -- "All love making scenes must be normal" : Pennsylvania movie censorship in the progressive era / Michael G. Aronson. -- Only flossy, high-society dudes would would smoke'em : gender and cigarette advertising in the nineteenth century / Dawn Schmitz. -- Trotting horses and moving pictures : a sporting view of early cinema / Andrew C. Miller. -- "Girls who come to pieces" : women, cosmetics, and advertising in the Ladies' Home Journal, 1900-1920 / Lisa Belicka Keränen. -- Race betterment and class consciousness at the turn of the century, or why it's okay to marry your cousin / Kelly Happe. -- Conspicuous whiteness : the new women, the old negro, and the vanishing past of early brand advertising / Carla Willard. -- Construction of violence : labor, capital and hegemonic struggle in the Pullman Strike of 1894 / Kevin Ayotte. -- Afterword / Richard Ohmann.