Tisk a populární kultura – Conboy Martin (2019)

In the current expansion of media and cultural studies, we sometimes tend to forget the "traditional" focal points of the field's interest: the dominance of television or the internet seems to overshadow radio, and classical print media is being relegated to dusty shelves of "what has already passed" and "what is currently passing." A proper understanding of the contemporary globalized, digital, and fluid world of media is largely conditioned by an understanding of its foundations, the historical contexts from which it arises. Martin Conboy's monograph, Print and Popular Culture, represents an ambitious attempt at such a thoughtful journey to the roots. In his analyses of popular print (illustrated weeklies and tabloid publications), he primarily relies on American and British material, but his conclusions and generalizations present a study that is more than relevant to our domestic situation as well. Spanning two centuries, he traces the changes in the roles and functions of popular periodical publications from the early 19th century to the present day, documenting the transformations they have undergone, and above all, tracking the influence of newspaper and magazine print on the establishment and development of modern popular culture as such. The volume is supplemented by an original...