Season 3 · Episode 255
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 255: News Parade w/ Joe Clark
Nostalgia Trap · David Parsons
February 22, 20211h 2mExplicit
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Show Notes
Joe Clark is the author of News Parade: The American Newsreel and the World as Spectacle (University of Minnesota Press, 2020). In this conversation, he tells us how the newsreel developed in the 1930s and 1940s as both an aesthetic object and consumer product, as figures like Charles Lindbergh became focal points of an immense transformation in the relationship between current events, entertainment, and an audience increasingly positioned as passive consumers of history.