Boston Mass-Mediated: Urban Space and Culture in the Digital Age by Corkin, Stanley
Boston Mass-Mediated: Urban Space and Culture in the Digital Age by Corkin, Stanley

Boston Mass-Mediated: Urban Space and Culture in the Digital Age

In the mid-nineteenth century, Boston fashioned itself as a global hub. By the early 1970s, it was...
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Author: Stanley Corkin
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Boston Mass-Mediated: Urban Space and Culture in the Digital Age by Corkin, Stanley

Boston Mass-Mediated: Urban Space and Culture in the Digital Age

$118.15
Boston Mass-Mediated: Urban Space and Culture in the Digital Age by Corkin, Stanley

Boston Mass-Mediated: Urban Space and Culture in the Digital Age

$118.15
Author: Stanley Corkin
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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In the mid-nineteenth century, Boston fashioned itself as a global hub. By the early 1970s, it was barely a dot on the national picture. It had gained a reputation as a decaying city rife with crime and dysfunctional politics, as well as decidedly retrograde race relations, prominently exemplified by white resistance to school integration. Despite this historical ebb in its national and international presence, it still possessed the infrastructure--superb educational institutions such as Harvard and MIT, world-class sports teams like the Celtics and Red Sox, powerful media outlets like The Boston Globe, and extensive shipping capacity--required to eventually thrive in an age of global trade and mass communication.

In Boston Mass-Mediated, Stanley Corkin explores the power of mass media to define a place. He examines the tensions between the emergent and prosperous city of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries and its representation in a range of media genres such as news journalism, professional sports broadcasting, and popular films like Mystic River and The Departed. This mass media, with its ever-increasing digital reach, has emphasized a city restricted by tropes suggestive of an earlier Boston--racism, white ethnic crime, Catholicism, and a pre-modern insularity--even as it becomes increasingly international and multicultural. These tropes mediate our understanding and experience of the city. Using Boston as a case study, Corkin contends that our contemporary sense of place occurs through a media saturated world, a world created by the explosion of digital technology that is steeped in preconceptions.

Author: Stanley Corkin
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 09/27/2024
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9781625348241

About the Author

Stanley Corkin is Charles Phelps Taft Professor and Niehoff Professor of Film and Media, Emeritus, at University of Cincinnati. His numerous books include Connecting The Wire: Race, Space, and Postindustrial Baltimore; Starring New York: Filming the Grime and Glamour of the Long 1970s; and Cowboys as Cold Warriors: The Western and US History. His peer-reviewed articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in several journals, including Jump Cut, the Journal of Urban History, MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, Prospects: An American Studies Annual, Journal of American History, Cinema Journal, College English, College Literature, and Cineaste.


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