The Journalist in British Fiction and Film: Guarding the by Sarah Lonsdale

By Sarah Lonsdale

Why did Edwardian novelists painting newshounds as swashbuckling, truth-seeking super-heroes while post-WW2 depictions current the journalist as alienated outsider? Why are modern fictional reporters usually deranged, murderous or intensely weak? As newspaper journalism faces the double hindrance of an absence of belief post-Leveson, and an absence of impression within the fragmented web age, how do cultural manufacturers view reporters and their function in society today?

In The Journalist in British Fiction and Film Sarah Lonsdale lines the ways that reporters and newspapers were depicted in fiction, theatre and picture from the sunrise of the mass well known press to the current day. The booklet asks first how newshounds have been represented in a number of specified classes of the twentieth century after which makes an attempt to give an explanation for why those representations range so largely. it is a heritage of the British press, advised now not through historians and sociologists, yet by means of writers and administrators in addition to reporters themselves. In uncovering dozens of forgotten fictions, Sarah Lonsdale explores the bare-knuckled literary strive against carried out by way of writers contesting the disputed obstacles among literature and journalism. inside of those texts and movies there's possibly additionally a clue as to how the simplest facets of 'Fourth property' journalism can live to tell the tale within the electronic age.

Authors lined within the quantity contain: Martin Amis, Graham Greene, George Orwell, Pat Barker, Evelyn Waugh, Elizabeth Bowen, Arnold Wesker and Rudyard Kipling. tv and flicks coated comprise condominium of playing cards (US and united kingdom versions), highlight, Defence of the world, mystery nation and kingdom of Play.

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