Title: Messages : free expression, media and the west from Gutenberg to Google /
Authors: Winston, Brian
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Mass media History
Abstract: "Messages is a search for the origins of media forms, from print and stage through photography to film and broadcasting. With a wealth of illuminating anecdotes and quotations, Brian Winston dearly and forcefully argues, in accessible jargon-free language, the case for the media's central importance as an essential engine underpinning all human rights and driving the Western concept of the individual. This is essential and entertaining reading for anyone concerned about the protection of liberty of expression."--Jacket.
Contents: "The liberty to know" : printing from 1455 -- "Taking off vizards and vailes and disguises" : newspapers from 1566 -- "Congress shall make no law" : journalism from 1702 -- "Here's the papers, here's the papers" : journalism from 1836 -- "Leal sovvenir" : imaging from 1413 -- "Who knows not her name" : theatre from 1513 -- "So much for stage feeling" : stage and screen from 1737 -- "Give the public what we think they need" : radio from 1906 -- "American shots" : cinema from 1925 -- "See it now" : television from 1954 -- "Free expression is in very deep trouble" : media to 1991 and beyond.