The Drunken Journalist the Biography of a Film Stereotype
- List Price: $87.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
- Publish date: 05/01/2000
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"No other human problem", a critic once remarked, "seems to have afflicted movie newspapermen more often than drinking". Howard Good's latest book analyzes the stereotype of the hard-drinking journalist, with the goal of discovering why it exists and how it operates not only in films, but also in the real world.
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Written in the clear, incisive style for which Good is known, this book offers illuminating new interpretations of classic newspaper films from "The Front Page" to "All the President's Men". It is a must-read for anyone interested in the implications of popular culture for how we think and live.
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