Thesis
The celebrity gossip column and newspaper journalism in Britain, 1918-1939
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This thesis analyses the content, tone, form and authorship of the national newspaper gossip column 1918-1939, as a new means through which the qualities of the popular press in this period can be more closely defined. Often dismissed as an example of the sensational, Americanization of early twentieth-century popular culture, the celebrity gossip column has been loosely grouped with the friendly, informal language and bolder formatting of the ‘New Journalism’ of the late nineteenth centu...
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Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2014
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- Oxford University, UK
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- Language:
- English
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- Local pid:
- ora:8245
- Deposit date:
- 2014-03-24
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- Copyright holder:
- Sarah Newman
- Copyright date:
- 2014
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