CIN240H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: The Shooting, Street Photography, Penny Press
Document Summary
Can be dated earlier, when photographs were first invented. December 1824 broadsheet articles about murderers, etc. in the popular press. Henry fauntleroy forging clients" signatures to embezzle funds to support his love life. Some of the first examples of original tabloids are penny papers little graphic material, mostly text (crime narratives) February 1834 the sun about an irish sea captain and suicide voice of the ordinary people, published daily by the penny press as a newspaper, mixed with the sensations of urban life, nighttime sensibility, etc. Daily news circulated to 1,000,000 (contained 5-35 stories of scandal, genres including sex, novellas, crimes this was 4x as many as world events news) They are capitalizing on the incredible outreach of the tabloids. Cross-modes suggest that it is defined by intertextuality the understanding of one text allows it to be understood in the other.
