Boston Mass-Mediated - Corkin, Stanley
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"In the mid-nineteenth century, Boston fashioned itself as a global hub. By the early 1970s, it was barely a dot on the national picture, having gained a reputation as a decaying city rife with crime, dysfunctional politics, and decidedly retrograde race relations. Despite this historical ebb in its national and international presence, it still possessed the infrastructure-superb educational institutions, world-class sports teams, powerful media outlets, and extensive shipping capacity-required to eventually thrive in an age of worldwide trade and mass communication. In Boston Mass-Mediated,…mehr

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"In the mid-nineteenth century, Boston fashioned itself as a global hub. By the early 1970s, it was barely a dot on the national picture, having gained a reputation as a decaying city rife with crime, dysfunctional politics, and decidedly retrograde race relations. Despite this historical ebb in its national and international presence, it still possessed the infrastructure-superb educational institutions, world-class sports teams, powerful media outlets, and extensive shipping capacity-required to eventually thrive in an age of worldwide trade and mass communication. In Boston Mass-Mediated, Stanley Corkin explores the tremendous power of mass media to define a place. He examines the tensions between the emergent and prosperous modern city of today and its representation in a range of media sources that have emphasized tropes suggestive of an earlier Boston, even as it becomes increasingly diverse and multicultural. Using Boston as a case study, Corkin contends that our contemporary sense of place is created through an increasingly media-saturated world via an explosion of digital technology that is frequently steeped in outdated preconceptions"--
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Autorenporträt
Stanley Corkin is Charles Phelps Taft Professor and Niehoff Professor of Film and Media, Emeritus, at University of Cincinnati. His numerous books include Connecting The Wire: Race, Space, and Postindustrial Baltimore; Starring New York: Filming the Grime and Glamour of the Long 1970s; and Cowboys as Cold Warriors: The Western and US History. His peer-reviewed articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in several journals, including Jump Cut, the Journal of Urban History, MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, Prospects: An American Studies Annual, Journal of American History, Cinema Journal, College English, College Literature, and Cineaste.