Front Page Girl

Author : Jean Marie Lutes
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 150172830X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Front-Page Girls written by Jean Marie Lutes and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study of the role of the newspaperwoman in American literary culture at the turn of the twentieth century, this book recaptures the imaginative exchange between real-life reporters like Nellie Bly and Ida B. Wells and fictional characters like Henrietta Stackpole, the lady-correspondent in Henry James's Portrait of a Lady. It chronicles the exploits of a neglected group of American women writers and uncovers an alternative reporter-novelist tradition that runs counter to the more familiar story of gritty realism generated in male-dominated newsrooms. Taking up actual newspaper accounts written by women, fictional portrayals of female journalists, and the work of reporters-turned-novelists such as Willa Cather and Djuna Barnes, Jean Marie Lutes finds in women's journalism a rich and complex source for modern American fiction. Female journalists, cast as both standard-bearers and scapegoats of an emergent mass culture, created fictions of themselves that far outlasted the fleeting news value of the stories they covered. Front-Page Girls revives the spectacular stories of now-forgotten newspaperwomen who were not afraid of becoming the news themselves—the defiant few who wrote for the city desks of mainstream newspapers and resisted the growing demand to fill women's columns with fashion news and household hints. It also examines, for the first time, how women's journalism shaped the path from news to novels for women writers.

Author : Radha Vatsal
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1492632678
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Front Page Affair written by Radha Vatsal and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York City, 1915 The Lusitania has just been sunk, and headlines about a shooting at J.P. Morgan's mansion and the Great War are splashed across the front page of every newspaper. Capability "Kitty" Weeks would love nothing more than to report on the news of the day, but she's stuck writing about fashion and society gossip over on the Ladies' Page—until a man is murdered at a high society picnic on her beat. Determined to prove her worth as a journalist, Kitty finds herself plunged into the midst of a wartime conspiracy that threatens to derail the United States' attempt to remain neutral—and to disrupt the privileged life she has always known. Radha Vatsal's A Front Page Affair is the first book in highly anticipated series featuring rising journalism star Kitty Weeks.

Author : John Bertram
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1440329885
Total Pages : 573 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lolita - The Story of a Cover Girl written by John Bertram and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What should Lolita look like? The question has dogged book-cover designers since 1955, when Lolita was first published in a plain green wrapper. The heroine of Vladimir Nabokov's classic novel has often been shown as a teenage seductress in heart-shaped glasses--a deceptive image that misreads the book but has seeped deep into our cultural life, from fashion to film. Lolita - The Story of a Cover Girl: Vladimir Nabokov's Novel in Art and Design reconsiders the cover of Lolita. Eighty renowned graphic designers and illustrators (including Paula Scher, Jessica Hische, Jessica Helfand, and Peter Mendelsund) offer their own takes on the book's jacket, while graphic-design critics and Nabokov scholars survey more than half a century of Lolita covers. You'll also find thoughtful essays from such design luminaries as Mary Gaitskill, Debbie Millman, Michael Bierut, Peter Mendelsund, Jessica Helfand, Alice Twemlow, Johanna Drucker, Leland de la Durantaye, Ellen Pifer, and Stephen Blackwell. Through the lenses of design and literature, Lolita - The Story of a Cover Girl tells the strange design history of one of the most important novels of the 20th century--and offers a new way for thinking visually about difficult books. You'll never look at Lolita the same way again.

Author : Jo Whittemore
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781416998983
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Front Page Face-Off written by Jo Whittemore and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-03-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Delilah James is one of the top reporters at Brighton Junior Academy and dreams of becoming a Junior Global Journalist. But when an international rival named Ava invades her newsroom and takes over her crush, Delilah finds an unlikely ally in the Debutantes - a.k.a. the Little Debbies.

Author : LynDee Walker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781951249533
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Front Page Fatality written by LynDee Walker and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When two rookie cops are killed in a suspicious crash near Richmond, Virginia, crime reporter Nichelle Clarke is sent in to investigate.

Author : Kathleen A. Cairns
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803203082
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Front-page Women Journalists, 1920-1950 written by Kathleen A. Cairns and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In spite of these challenges, front-page women played a significant role in reshaping public perceptions about women's roles."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Doris O'Donnell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Front-page Girl written by Doris O'Donnell and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Her 58-year career as a news reporter included the prestigious assignments of covering such notable events as the assassinations of President John Kennedy, Senator Bobby Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr.; the inner-city riots in Cleveland and other major cities during the summer of 1966; Ted Kennedy's Chappaquiddick incident; and the Sam Sheppard murder case. She also traveled with the Cleveland Indians baseball team (the Cleveland Sports Writers voted her out of the all-male press box in Baltimore, D.C., and Boston), lived with an African American family on Cleveland's east side and wrote a three-week series about their daily lives, and in 1957 traveled to the Soviet Union where she reported on the intimate lives of the average Russian.".

Author : Ryan Uytdewilligen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493063316
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Killing John Wayne written by Ryan Uytdewilligen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behold the history of a film so scandalous, so outrageous, so explosive it disappeared from print for over a quarter century! A film so dangerous, half its cast and crew met their demise bringing eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes’ final cinematic vision to life! Starring All-American legend John Wayne in full Fu Manchu make-up as Mongol madman Genghis Khan! Featuring sultry seductress Susan Hayward as his lover! This is the true story of The Conqueror (1956), the worst movie ever made. Filmed during the dark underbelly of the 1950s—the Cold War—when nuclear testing in desolate southwestern landscapes was a must for survival, the very same landscapes were where exotic stories set in faraway lands could be made. Just 153 miles from the St. George, Utah, set, nuclear bombs were detonated regularly at Yucca Flat and Frenchman Flat in Nevada, providing a bizarre and possibly deadly background to an already surreal moment in cinema history. This book tells the full story of the making of The Conqueror, its ignominious aftermath, and the radiation induced cancer that may have killed John Wayne and many others.

Author : Miriam Moss
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448188261
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Girl on a Plane written by Miriam Moss and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jordan, 1970. After a summer spent with her family, fifteen-year-old Anna is travelling back to her English boarding school alone. But her plane never makes it home. Anna’s flight is hijacked by Palestinian guerrillas. They land the plane in the Jordanian desert, switch off the engines and issue their demands. If these are not met within three days, they will blow up the plane, killing all the hostages. The heat on board becomes unbearable; food and water supplies dwindle. Anna begins to face the possibility she may never see her family again. Time is running out . . . Based on true events, this is a story about ordinary people facing agonizing horror, of courage and resilience.

Author : Yvonne Greene
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780553207446
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cover Girl written by Yvonne Greene and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renee hides her life as a fashion model from her boyfriend who hates anything phony.