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Writing on the Move
Albert Londres and Investigative Journalism
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Artikel-Nr:
9783039101573
Veröffentl:
2004
Seiten:
274
Autor:
Walter Redfern
Gewicht:
400 g
Format:
220x150x15 mm
Serie:
8, European Connections
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
The Author: Educated at Cambridge University and Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris), Walter Redfern became lecturer, reader, then personal professor of French Studies at Reading University. He is the author of books on: Jean Giono, Paul Nizan, Jean-Paul Sartre, Raymond Queneau, Georges Darien, Jules Vallès, Michel Tournier, Louis Guilloux, and Jean-Pierre Brisset.
Albert Londres (1884-1932) was a much-translated French investigative journalist, distinguished by the application of humour to serious reporting. His journalistic coverage was extremely wide (Europe, Soviet Russia, the Middle East, the Far East, Africa, South America), as were his themes: war, revolution, racism, prison and asylum conditions, the slave trade, colonialism, sport. This study compares and contrasts Londres with other globetrotting reporters from France, Britain and the USA who deal courageously and innovatively with history in the making. The approach is historical, sociological and rhetorical. The author investigates the shifting borderline between journalism and literature and critically examines the numerous clichés about, and by, journalists.
Contents: Investigative journalism - Roving reporter as campaigning social critic - Rhetoric of journalistic discourse - Cross-cultural comparisons of globetrotting reporters - The question of readership - Journalism as literature - The status of journalists - The role of humour in journalism.