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

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

  1. This class was taught in the Fall 2005 semester.

OUTLINES:

  1. 5 Stages of Communication History
  2. Rise of a Free Press 1474-1830
  3. Nationalizing Power 1830-1865
  4. Birth of the Movies 1865-1915
  5. Jezebel
  6. Chaplin
  7. The Jazz Singer
  8. The Sound Revolution
  9. Newsreels
  10. Studies of Influence
  11. Hollywood's Depression Age
  12. Public Enemy
  13. Hollywood's Conservative Age
  14. New Journalism 1865-1919
  15. William Randolph Hearst
  16. Citizen Kane
  17. The New Media 1919-1939
  18. March of Time
  19. Documentary
  20. Time-Fortune-Life
  21. Why We Fight
  22. Myths of WWII
  23. Radio
  24. TV
  25. Golden Age
  26. Quiz Show
  27. Satellite TV
  28. Split Personality
  29. 1960 Debate
  30. Postwar Hollywood
  31. Vietnam
  32. Hoaxes

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