{"product_id":"boston-mass-mediated-urban-space-and-culture-in-the-digital-age-9781625348241","title":"Boston Mass-Mediated: Urban Space and Culture in the Digital Age","description":"\u003cp\u003e In the mid-nineteenth century, Boston fashioned itself as a global hub. By the early 1970s, it was barely a dot on the national picture. It had gained a reputation as a decaying city rife with crime and dysfunctional politics, as well as decidedly retrograde race relations, prominently exemplified by white resistance to school integration. Despite this historical ebb in its national and international presence, it still possessed the infrastructure--superb educational institutions such as Harvard and MIT, world-class sports teams like the Celtics and Red Sox, powerful media outlets like \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e, and extensive shipping capacity--required to eventually thrive in an age of global trade and mass communication. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eBoston Mass-Mediated\u003c\/i\u003e, Stanley Corkin explores the power of mass media to define a place. He examines the tensions between the emergent and prosperous city of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries and its representation in a range of media genres such as news journalism, professional sports broadcasting, and popular films like \u003ci\u003eMystic River\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Departed\u003c\/i\u003e. This mass media, with its ever-increasing digital reach, has emphasized a city restricted by tropes suggestive of an earlier Boston--racism, white ethnic crime, Catholicism, and a pre-modern insularity--even as it becomes increasingly international and multicultural. These tropes mediate our understanding and experience of the city. Using Boston as a case study, Corkin contends that our contemporary sense of place occurs through a media saturated world, a world created by the explosion of digital technology that is steeped in preconceptions. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStanley Corkin\u003c\/b\u003e is Charles Phelps Taft Professor and Niehoff Professor of Film and Media, Emeritus, at University of Cincinnati. His numerous books include \u003ci\u003eConnecting The Wire: Race, Space, and Postindustrial Baltimore\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eStarring New York: Filming the Grime and Glamour of the Long 1970s\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eCowboys as Cold Warriors: The Western and US History\u003c\/i\u003e. His peer-reviewed articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in several journals, including \u003ci\u003eJump Cut\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Urban History\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMFS: Modern Fiction Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eProspects: An American Studies Annual\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCinema Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCollege English\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCollege Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCineaste\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Massachusetts Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50916183343378,"sku":"9781625348241","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ce7ab55a-839f-4e6a-99e0-26942135d480.jpg?v=1738842873","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/boston-mass-mediated-urban-space-and-culture-in-the-digital-age-9781625348241","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}