| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Joshua Brown. Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2002. Pp. xxiii, 361. $49.95.

Joshua Brown has made a significant contribution to the historiography of journalism through this book. He brings his experience as a documentary filmmaker as well as his academic training to the analysis of news images to "decipher the conventional wisdom and unconventional debates embedded in their seemingly dull, linear codes" (p. 1). Brown pushes beyond what he terms "the canon of the visual" to bring an interdisciplinary approach to bear on his analysis of the wood-engraved pictures illustrating Gilded Age weeklies such as Frank Leslie's. He asserts that the pictures embodied not a superficial and ephemeral representation of a simplistic reality but instead a multilayered negotiation among the producers and the consumers of the weeklies. Perspectives from social historians of readers would have further enriched Brown's study, but it remains a sophisticated, rich source that opens new territory for historians of illustrated journalism and of the Gilded Age. . . .

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