books about: sensationalism     books:       The Body in the Reservoir: Murder and Sensationalism in the South1 review Michael Trotti The University of North Carolina Press, 2008 A Milestone In Virginia's Cultural History Grandma went to church with Henry Beattie. Her uncle testified for the prosecution. Granddad attended the trial. Dr. Trotti's article on half-tone images [featuring Beattie] in "The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography" whetted my appetite for his new book "The Body in the Reservoir." It was worth the wait. Trotti's book represents a milestone in Virginia's cultural and journalism ...             I Watched a Wild Hog Eat My Baby: A Colorful History of Tabloids and Their Cultural Impact12 reviews Bill Sloan Prometheus Books, 2001 Most current, and comprehensive, history of tabloids This extensively-researched history of American tabloids was released in 2001, the only post-1999 tabloid book so far. That's relevant, because since 1999 all major tabloids (Enquirer, Star, Globe, Examiner, Mira, Sun, Weekly World News) have been under single ownership. Some tabloid critics lament that this has undermined the tabloids' traditional competitiveness, and significantly altered ...             Sleazoid Express: A Mind-Twisting Tour Through the Grindhouse Cinema of Times Square11 reviews Bill Landis, Michelle Clifford Fireside, 2002 Fans of Great Work and Important Film... ...get out and stay out! Sleazoid Express is one of the best chronicles of films they don't teach or even talk about in regular film discussion. What Clifford and Landis do over 300-odd pages is two fold: provide a ground-eye view of the chaotic horror of the old Times Square and realistically discuss a film culture that remains ignored in refined film history. Although they provide an artificial ...             Grossed-Out Surgeon Vomits Inside Patient!: An Insider's Look at the Supermarket Tabloids3 reviews Jim Hogshire Feral House, 1997 CIA MKULTRA mind control of supermarket shoppers This excellent book reveals the top secret that US government's Central Intelligence Agency founded and owned the National Enquirer magazine. OSS/CIA agent Alexander Pope eventually sold "his" tabloid empire for $300-million. The propaganda value of tabs is unmatched, where mind control diverts every person who fails to avert their eyes at supermarket checkouts. Purchasing the rag is not ...             The Psychotronic Video Guide To Film15 reviews Michael J. Weldon St. Martin's Griffin, 1996 Some misunderstandings in the other reviews I'll freely admit my admiration for Michael Weldon's work, this book, his previous, and his magazine. Even when I disagree with his assessment, he's always honest and straight-forward. I read some other reviews complaining about the content, or lack thereof, in this book. I think there's a misundserstanding as to what this is. It is a continuation of Michael's previous book, the Psychotronic ...             Controversial Cinema: The Films That Outraged America Kendall R. Phillips Praeger Publishers, 2008 Since the widespread banning of DW Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, the American film industry has found itself embroiled in one political controversy after another. These controversies have centered on everything from the portrayal of the past, as in Griffith's film, to depictions of sex and sexuality, to the use of graphic violence, and issues of race, religion, and politics. In turn, segments of the American public have been driven to ...             Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood17 reviews Mark A. Vieira Harry N. Abrams, 1999 BEAUTIFUL AND COMPELLING. In this exhaustively researched, beautifully illustrated book, author Vieira does an exceptional job. Recently, I have been drawn to the fascinating world of Pre-Code Cinema. There were some really realistically seedy, controversial and revealing films made in the Hollywood of the late twenties and early thirties. Many films which have been previously believed lost or destroyed have been rescued ...             The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York (Historical Studies of Urban America)3 reviews Patricia Cline Cohen, Timothy J. Gilfoyle, ... University Of Chicago Press, 2008 The Titillation of the Times In the 1840s, New Yorkers didn't have _Hustler_ or _Screw_ magazine, but they didn't go without their titillation in print. They could get to the newsstand and buy _The Flash_, _The Rake_, _The Whip_, or _The Libertine_, and get a dash of bold, provocative, and spicy prose, with saucy pictures. The papers are long gone, and would have been forgotten ephemera had not a treasure trove of them ...             Sleaze Artists: Cinema at the Margins of Taste, Style, and Politics Duke University Press, 2007 Bad Girls Go to Hell. Cannibal Holocaust . Eve and the Handyman . Examining film culture’s ongoing fascination with the low, bad, and sleazy faces of cinema, Sleaze Artists brings together film scholars with a shared interest in the questions posed by disreputable movies and suspect cinema. They explore the ineffable quality of “sleaze” in relation to a range of issues, including the production realities of low-budget ...             Self-Exposure: Human-Interest Journalism and the Emergence of Celebrity in America, 1890-19401 review Charles L. Ponce de Leon The University of North Carolina Press, 2002 Simply stunning! This is a brilliant book on a subject that we often dismiss as trivial. Remarkably, as you read Ponce de Leon's history of the evolution of celebrity journalism, you realize that most of the strategies the celeb followers and creators employed 100 years ago are still being used today in People, Sports Illustrated and similar magazines. Equally fascinating is the way more astute (or malleable?) ...             For Enquiring Minds: A Cultural Study of Supermarket Tabloids1 review S. Elizabeth Bird University of Tennessee Press, 1992 Tabloids as interactive cultural folklore Bird is not a former tabloid "insider," but an academic: assistant professor of humanities and anthropology at the University of Minnesota. She discusses tabloid history, beginning as far back as oral "folklore" and urban legends. She interviewed tabloid editors, writers, and readers for this book, and analyzes tabloid stories within the context of folklore theory. She claims that tabloid readers ...             Exxon Valdez : The Great Crisis Management Paradox (Executive action) James E Lukaszewski Lukaszewski Group, 1995 Exxon and Valdez have become the sine qua non for the mishandling of both an environmental disaster response and the corporate communications surrounding it. No environmental disaster in the twentieth century captivated the world's attention to the extent of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in March 1989. It certainly captivated the attention of public relations practitioners and corporate communicators, triggering exhaustive new crisis planning and ...             Offensive Films6 reviews Mikita Brottman Vanderbilt University Press, 2005 A list of the nearly unwatchable film Here's a unique approach: a survey of movies so offensive, some are nearly unwatchable. Here are your classic B films, your films which sparked controversies, and your productions featuring freaks, shocks, and more. But OFFENSIVE FILMS isn't just a listing of plots: it provides social commentary, film criticism, and psychoanalysis alike to discern what makes the production offensive, obscene or ...             Black Swine in the Sewers of Hampstead: Beneath the Surface of Victorian Sensationalism1 review Thomas Boyle Penguin (Non-Classics), 1990 Intriguing Topic About Victorians, Very Lukewarm Discussion The tutular 'Swine' is about one obscure urban legend in the 19th century England, about the animal that was believed living in the sewer, but I am afraid I cannot tall you anything about it in detail, for the book is not about that mystreious swine, or urban legend either. Thomas Boyle, known as crime fiction writer, discusses the relations between the Victorian popular novels and the real ...             Rabid Nun Infects Entire Convent: And Other Sensational Stories from a Tabloid Writer5 reviews Tom D'Antoni Villard, 2005 What took so long for someone to write this book? Supermarket tabloid covers fall into two types -- (1) the ones with stories about people you see on television and in the movies, and (2) the covers that are interesting. Be honest -- you KNOW you always suspected that Dubya, with ears like he has, was REALLY fathered by an escapee from the Roswell alien prison: probably by Jar-Jar Binks himself. But it's always good to have a "legitimate" ...             Deathtripping [Old Edition]: The Cinema of Transgression (Creation Cinema)1 review The Tears Corporation/Creation, 1995 Very good information with many stills Deathtripping is one of the best books on the "Cinema of Transgression" out there, mainly because it is populated with stills and rare photos. The cinema of transgression is a movement that really works on a visual level and some of the content of these films needs to be seen to be believed. That is why I think this picture book is probably the best place to start, short of seeing the films ...             Killing for Culture: Death Film from Mondo to Snuff (Creation Cinema Collection)10 reviews David Slater Creation Books, 1996 A thorough examination of death in film Killing for Culture is the first and most sought after of the Creation Cinema series. It covers all types of death in film looking at how it is portrayed and why. Nothing is left out from the real death seen in the Faces of Death video series to the elaborately staged "real" killings in fictional films to the wanton slaughtering of animals in the Mondo series. Yes, even "snuff" films are ...             Yellow Journalism (We the People) (We the People) Jason Skog Compass Point Books, 2007             Tabloid Baby46 reviews Burt Kearns Celebrity Books, 1999 We care about Tabloid Baby! We're glad to see that Tabloid Baby is still getting under the skins of network newsies! After almost a year, it's "required reading" among us producers and obviously its given a few pointers to the network newsies! Tabloid Baby is the funnest book I've read this year and the ones whod call it petty are the real little petty ones! Viva tabloid baby! Viva! Viva! Tabloid Baby!              search for books 1890-1940, celebrity, collection, colorful, controversial, creation, deathtripping, emergence, enquiring, executive, grindhouse, grossed-out, hampstead, historical, hollywood, human-interest, interest, journalism, management, mind-twisting, offensive, outraged, psychotronic, reservoir, self-exposure, sensational, sensationalism, supermarket, transgression, victorian books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen sporting goods: No Lifeguard On Duty Aluminum Street Sign Impressum - about us get your own tag board