This is the resource page for the Fall 2005 History of U.S. Mass Media class. The course is taught by Dr. Steven Schoenherr.
Contact Dr. Schoenherr by email at ses@sandiego.edu

U. S. Mass Media History 379/579

OUTLINES:

  1. 5 Stages of Communication History
  2. Rise of a Free Press 1474-1830
  3. Nationalizing Power 1830-1865
  4. New Journalism 1865-1919
  5. Birth of the Movies
  6. Jezebel
  7. The Sound Revolution
  8. The Jazz Singer
  9. Chaplin
  10. Studies of Influence
  11. Yesterday's Witness
  12. Hollywood's Depression Age
  13. Public Enemy
  14. Hollywood's Conservative Age
  15. New Journalism
  16. Citizen Kane
  17. The New Media 1919-1939
  18. March of Time
  19. Time-Fortune-Life
  20. Plow That Broke the Plains
  21. Why We Fight
  22. Myths of WWII
  23. Radio
  24. TV
  25. Quiz Show
  26. News
  27. 1960 Debate
  28. Postwar Hollywood
  29. Vietnam
  30. Hoaxes

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