Self-Exposure
Subtitle: Human-Interest Journalism and the Emergence of Celebrity in America, 1890-1940
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: December 9, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780807854037
Subjects: Media Studies; Popular culture; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Modern - 20th Century; Language; Language Arts & Disciplines; History - U.S.; United States; USA; Press coverage; Social History; United States - 19th Century/Turn of the Century; United States - 20th Century (1900-1945); American Studies; Journalism/Journalism History; Media/Media History/Film Studies; Performing Arts / Mass Media; Journalism; Celebrities; Sensationalism in journalism
First sentence: Published in 1959 to considerable fanfare, Earl Blackwell's and Cleveland Amory's International Celebrity Register, a massive volume offering readers capsule biographies of 2,200 public figures, arrived on the American cultural scene with an aura of importance that was not uncommon among works published during the 1950s.