Introduction : Popular Press: Theory and History -- 1. Popularizing the People -- 2. The Popular Press as Popular Culture -- 3. The American Popular Press from the Nineteenth Century -- 4. The English Popular Press in the Early Nineteenth Century -- 5. Commercializing the Popular in Britain -- 6. The New Journalism: The Long Version -- 7. The Popular Press: Surviving Postmodernity -- 8. Integrating Approaches to Contemporary Popular Culture
Summary
Covering the early modern period to the present day, Martin Conboy's study is a critical history of the popular press in the UK and the USA. The author concludes with an analysis of the press in a globalised media environment
Notes
Includes index
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [184]-189) and index