The Press and Popular Culture in Interwar Europe This collection shows the importance of a comparative European framework for understanding developments in the popular press and journalism between the wars This was it argues a formative and vital
This collection shows the importance of a comparative European framework for understanding developments in the popular press and journalism between the wars This was, it argues, a formative and vital period in the making of the modern press A great deal of fine scholarship on the development of modern forms of journalism and newspapers in the nineteenth and twentieth cenThis collection shows the importance of a comparative European framework for understanding developments in the popular press and journalism between the wars This was, it argues, a formative and vital period in the making of the modern press A great deal of fine scholarship on the development of modern forms of journalism and newspapers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has emerged within discrete national histories Yet in bringing together essays on Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Poland, this book discerns points of convergence and divergence, and the importance of the European context in shaping how news was defined, produced and consumed Challenging the tendency of histories of the press to foreground processes of Americanisation and the displacement of older notions of the fourth estate by new forms of human interest journalism, the chapters draw attention to the complex ways in which the popular press continued to be politicized throughout the interwar period Building on this analysis, the book examines the forms, processes and networks through which newspapers were produced for public consumption In a period of massive social, political and economic upheaval and conflict, the popular press provided a forum in which Europe s meanings and nature could be constructed and contested.
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