Profile pieces : journalism and the 'human interest' bias /: journalism and the 'human interest' bias. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Sue Joseph, Richard Lance Keeble.
• Editors: Joseph, Sue, 1958-; Keeble, Richard, 1948-
• Contents: Introduction: profiling/painting a picture in words / Richard Lance Keeble and Sue Joseph -- History of the profile: from Canterbury tales to the present day. The pre-history of profiles, 1380-1800: Chaucer, news ballads, the English Civil War and Boswell / Grant Hannis -- Profiling Pitt: the first political profile and its legacies / Nikki Hessell -- Precursor to the profile: the character sketch in colonial Australia / Willa McDonald -- Profile and counter-profile: on Joseph Mitchell's Joe Goulds / Mateus Yuri Passos -- The return of the long-form profile: a case study of the quarterly essay and the monthly in Australia / Matthew Ricketson -- The manufacture of celebrity and "the ordinary". Edna Staebler and the lives of women / Bruce Gillespie -- Disclosure and enclosure: revisiting media profiles of Jimmy Savile / Simon Cross -- Profiles of lived experience: Charles Reznikoff, Muriel Rukeyser and Mark Nowak / William Dow -- More than just the individual: profiling communities, countries, movements. John Bull scrambling for Africa: a portrait of the English at the heyday of empire / Isabel Soares -- How profiles in the women's penny paper/woman's herald challenged cultural stereotypes and promoted feminism / F. Elizabeth Gray -- Profiling controversial social movements: Arundhati Roy's challenges, style and insights / Jane Chapman -- This sporting life. The dark side of the moon of Walter Mitty: George Plimpton and the reinvention of reality / Nick Nuttall -- New rules of the game: sports journalism and profiles / Peter English -- Profiling and the trauma narrative. The empathetic profiler and ethics: trauma reporting and advocacy / Sue Joseph -- Profiling war: managing trauma in reporting horror: the case of bo?tjan videm?ek / Leonora Flis.
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 070.44; Feature writing; Journalism -- Social aspects; Reporters and reporting; Journalism -- Objectivity; Feature writing; Journalism -- Objectivity; Journalism -- Social aspects; Reporters and reporting; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781317383536; 1317383532; 9781317383543; 1317383540; 9781317383529; 1317383524
• Related ISBNs: 9781138938052
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: CIP data; item not viewed.
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