| Description |
viii, 296 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Ch. 1. Unifying and Decentring in Modern Journalism -- 1. Unifying journalisms : the triumph of the witness-ambassador -- 2. Journalisms that decentre: acts of daring, difficulties and pitfalls -- Ch. 2. An Archetype of the Witness-Ambassador: Severine, Reporter at the Trial of Captain Dreyfus (La Fronde, 6 August-15 September 1899) -- 1. The truth of the senses -- 2. The body of the reporter -- 3. Unifying by orchestrating a conflict -- Ch. 3. Unifying through a Test: Nellie Bly, Albert Londres and Edward R. Murrow -- 1. Nellie Bly or the test of the hidden -- 2. Albert Londres or the test of strangeness -- 3. Edward R. Murrow or the test of the usurpation of the centre -- Ch. 4. The Limitations of the Position of the Witness-Ambassador: The Case of Lincoln Steffens -- 1. The ease of the recourse to 'I saw' -- 2. The itinerary of a muckraker in crisis -- 3. Saying good-bye to the witness-ambassador? -- Ch. 5. The Difficulties of Decentring: The New Journalism and the Early Years of Liberation -- 1. The New Journalism and the temptation of ubiquity -- 2. Libe 1 and the temptation to unify the dominated -- Ch. 6. An Archetype of Decentring: George Orwell -- 1. The question of the other gaze -- 2. The solitude of the decentrer in the reportages of 1936-1937 -- 3. The gaze as decentring: a reading of Nineteen Eighty-Four -- Ch. 7. Seeing Violence: Seymour M. Hersh and Michael Herr, Two Decentring Reporters in the Vietnam War -- 1. The 'other Americans': Seymour M. Hersh and the My Lai massacre -- 2. Michael Herr in Vietnam: violence as an impossible spectacle |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Translated from the French |
| Subject |
Journalism -- History -- 19th century.
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Journalism -- History -- 20th century.
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Journalism -- History.
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Journalism -- Political aspects -- History.
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Journalism -- Political aspects.
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| LC no. |
2008428324 |
| ISBN |
0745635733 (hbk.) |
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0745635741 (paperback) |
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9780745635736 (hbk.) |
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9780745635743 (paperback) |
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