Beyond the lines
Subtitle: pictorial reporting, everyday life, and the crisis of gilded-age America
By: Joshua Brown.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
Subjects: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper.; Illustrated periodicals.; Illustrated periodicals -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Description: "Today video clips and photojournalism dominate our news sources, but in the second half of the nineteenth century, the pictorial newspaper brought events and personalities alive for a hungry public. In this wonderfully illustrated book, Joshua Brown shows that the wood engravings in the illustrated newspapers of Gilded Age America were more than quaint predecessors to our own sophisticated media.

As he tells the history and traces the influence of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, with relevant asides on Harper's Weekly, the New York Daily Graphic and others, Brown recaptures the complexity and richness of pictorial reporting. He finds these images to be significant barometers for gauging how the general public perceived pivotal events and crises - the Civil War, Reconstruction, important labor battles, and more - and uses them as a rewarding source for understanding the era."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-344) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; title: 1. Pictorial Journalism in Antebellum America 7; title: 2. Illustrating the News 32; title: 3. Constructing Representation, 1866-77 60; title: 4. Balancing Act, 1866-77 I03; title: 5. Reconstructing Representation, 1866-77 131; title: 6. Balancing the Unbalanceable, I878-89 170; title: Epilogue 233.