William Solomon
Biographic Data
| ID | 1133306 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Solomon |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Solomon |
| SIGNATURE | SOLOMON W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Ethics of Estrangement in Shklovsky and Chaplin
This article explores the interplay between Russian formalist aesthetic theory and the practice of American slapstick film. It proposes that Chaplin's early silent comedies both illustrate and influenced Viktor Shklovsky's concept of art as a means of estranging the world. In conclusion, it integrates a little-known late modernist film by Saul Levine, a radical underground filmmaker. This film, “The Big Stick/An Old Reel,” reworks two Chaplin sho…
On Comic Modernism: Impersonality in Eliot and Keaton
This essay seeks to illuminate the comic underpinnings of the modernist concept of impersonality in order to rethink the rhetorical affinities between T. S. Eliot and Buster Keaton. By rejecting romantic models of self-expression, the poet's compositional strategy in Inventions of the March Hare and the slapstick filmmaker's acting technique in The Playhouse exceed notions of fixed identity
Slapstick Modernism: Charley Bowers and Industrial Modernity
William Solomon (SUNY-Buffalo) asks us how vernacular and avant-garde comic practice might function as twinned responses to standardised mass-production and the rationalisation of the workplace. Returning us to the recently rediscovered comic films of Charley Bowers - a pioneer of animated silent film and a proto-surrealist bricoleur lionised by André Breton, Solomon demonstrates how Bowers' absurd machinic assemblages “generate laughter at the e…
E. W. Scripps and the Business of Newspapers
Journal Article E. W. Scripps and the Business of Newspapers. By Gerald J. Baldasty. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999. xiv, 217 pp. Cloth, $42.50, ISBN 0-252-02255-6. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-252-06750-9.) Get access William S. Solomon William S. Solomon Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, June 2000, Pages 25…
More Form than Substance: Press Coverage of the WTO Protests in Seattle
The mainstream U.S. news media have been shifting rightward for at least two decades, as their corporate owners enforce tighter ideological conformity. Oliver North and Pat Buchanan, for example, are now regular commentators on television talk shows. And all of the media now refer to people as "consumers," cogs in a capitalist machine. But still, news is less than half as profitable as entertainment, and media firms are intensifying pressures on …
Covering Cuba in a new light
In the United States, a small segment of the corporate sector owns virtually all information and communication systems. The corporate ownership of the mainstream U.S. news media ensures favorable coverage of major issues such as GATT and NAFTA. But the U.S. press has also overcome the virulent anti‐communism of U.S. culture, and even changed sufficiently to now support Vietnam and China. A similar transition seems to be occurring in the U.S. pres…
Covering Dissent: The Media and the Anti-Vietnam War Movement
Journal Article Covering Dissent: The Media and the Anti-Vietnam War Movement. By Melvin Small. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1994. x, 228 pp. Cloth, $42.00, ISBN 0-8135-2106-8. Paper, $16.00, ISBN 0-8135-2107-6.) Get access William S. Solomon William S. Solomon Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 4, March 1…
Politics and Rhetoric in the Novel in the 1930s
Deconstructing violence: Press coverage of the Lapd/Rodney King beating and first trial
This article examines The New York Times' and the Washington Post's coverage of the Los Angeles police beating of African-American motorist Rodney King, and of the subsequent initial trial of four police officers. Framing the issue in terms of personalities, the coverage minimized systematic factors of race and class, in what had become a controversial public policy issue. The newspapers differed in thoroughness but not ideology: neither moved be…
Ruthless Criticism: New Perspectives in U.S. Communication History
Journal Article Ruthless Criticism: New Perspectives in U.S. Communication History. Ed. by William S. Solomon and Robert W. McChesney. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993. x, 389 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8166-2169-1. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8166-2170-5.) Get access Richard B. Kielbowicz Richard B. Kielbowicz University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal …
The German-American Radical Press: The Shaping of a Left Political Culture, 1850-1940. Elliott Shore , Ken Fones-Wolf , James P. Danky
Outside the Frame: Newspaper Coverage of the Sugar Ray Leonard Wife Abuse Story
This article analyzes the print media’s ideological framing of the 1991 story of boxer Sugar Ray Leonard’s admission of having physically abused his wife and abused cocaine and alcohol. We examined all news stories and editorials on the Leonard story in two major daily newspapers and one national sports daily. We found that all three papers framed the story as a “drug story,” while ignoring or marginalizing the “wife abuse” story. We argue that s…
Framing Violence: Press Coverag of the L.A.P.D./Rodney King Beating and First Trial
News frames and media packages: Covering El Salvador
This article studies the coverage of El Salvador in Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report from several months before the FMLN offensive of November 1989 to the peace accords of January 1992. The magazines are found to share a “media package” that depicts U.S. policy on El Salvador as well meaning. The range of views in the coverage corresponds to the range of views among ruling U.S. elites. Differences in coverage are connected to each new…
Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies and the Reagan Era
The author discusses his background, movie making, England travel, the U.S., and American politics
Media Decentralization: The Case of Israel's Local Newspapers
Dan Caspi offers comprehensive introduction to the Israeli mass media and fresh theoretical look at the role and function of free press in democratic society. Two major issues underlie this study, patterned after the pioneering work of Morris Janowitz on the community press in the United States: relations between social and communications systems and reciprocal relations among various mass media. Caspi's primary concern is to determine whether th…
Outside the Frame: Newspaper Coverage of the Sugar Ray Leonard Wife Abuse Story
This article analyzes the print media’s ideological framing of the 1991 story of boxer Sugar Ray Leonard’s admission of having physically abused his wife and abused cocaine and alcohol. We examined all news stories and editorials on the Leonard story in two major daily newspapers and one national sports daily. We found that all three papers framed the story as a “drug story,” while ignoring or marginalizing the “wife abuse” story. We argue that s…
More Form than Substance: Press Coverage of the WTO Protests in Seattle
The mainstream U.S. news media have been shifting rightward for at least two decades, as their corporate owners enforce tighter ideological conformity. Oliver North and Pat Buchanan, for example, are now regular commentators on television talk shows. And all of the media now refer to people as "consumers," cogs in a capitalist machine. But still, news is less than half as profitable as entertainment, and media firms are intensifying pressures on …
Slapstick Modernism: Charley Bowers and Industrial Modernity
William Solomon (SUNY-Buffalo) asks us how vernacular and avant-garde comic practice might function as twinned responses to standardised mass-production and the rationalisation of the workplace. Returning us to the recently rediscovered comic films of Charley Bowers - a pioneer of animated silent film and a proto-surrealist bricoleur lionised by André Breton, Solomon demonstrates how Bowers' absurd machinic assemblages “generate laughter at the e…
Covering Dissent: The Media and the Anti-Vietnam War Movement
Journal Article Covering Dissent: The Media and the Anti-Vietnam War Movement. By Melvin Small. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1994. x, 228 pp. Cloth, $42.00, ISBN 0-8135-2106-8. Paper, $16.00, ISBN 0-8135-2107-6.) Get access William S. Solomon William S. Solomon Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 4, March 1…
Politics and Rhetoric in the Novel in the 1930s
Framing Violence: Press Coverag of the L.A.P.D./Rodney King Beating and First Trial
Media Decentralization: The Case of Israel's Local Newspapers
Dan Caspi offers comprehensive introduction to the Israeli mass media and fresh theoretical look at the role and function of free press in democratic society. Two major issues underlie this study, patterned after the pioneering work of Morris Janowitz on the community press in the United States: relations between social and communications systems and reciprocal relations among various mass media. Caspi's primary concern is to determine whether th…
Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies and the Reagan Era
The author discusses his background, movie making, England travel, the U.S., and American politics
News frames and media packages: Covering El Salvador
This article studies the coverage of El Salvador in Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report from several months before the FMLN offensive of November 1989 to the peace accords of January 1992. The magazines are found to share a “media package” that depicts U.S. policy on El Salvador as well meaning. The range of views in the coverage corresponds to the range of views among ruling U.S. elites. Differences in coverage are connected to each new…
Outside the Frame: Newspaper Coverage of the Sugar Ray Leonard Wife Abuse Story
This article analyzes the print media’s ideological framing of the 1991 story of boxer Sugar Ray Leonard’s admission of having physically abused his wife and abused cocaine and alcohol. We examined all news stories and editorials on the Leonard story in two major daily newspapers and one national sports daily. We found that all three papers framed the story as a “drug story,” while ignoring or marginalizing the “wife abuse” story. We argue that s…
Framing Violence: Press Coverag of the L.A.P.D./Rodney King Beating and First Trial
Deconstructing violence: Press coverage of the Lapd/Rodney King beating and first trial
This article examines The New York Times' and the Washington Post's coverage of the Los Angeles police beating of African-American motorist Rodney King, and of the subsequent initial trial of four police officers. Framing the issue in terms of personalities, the coverage minimized systematic factors of race and class, in what had become a controversial public policy issue. The newspapers differed in thoroughness but not ideology: neither moved be…
Ruthless Criticism: New Perspectives in U.S. Communication History
Journal Article Ruthless Criticism: New Perspectives in U.S. Communication History. Ed. by William S. Solomon and Robert W. McChesney. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993. x, 389 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8166-2169-1. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8166-2170-5.) Get access Richard B. Kielbowicz Richard B. Kielbowicz University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal …
The German-American Radical Press: The Shaping of a Left Political Culture, 1850-1940. Elliott Shore , Ken Fones-Wolf , James P. Danky
Covering Cuba in a new light
In the United States, a small segment of the corporate sector owns virtually all information and communication systems. The corporate ownership of the mainstream U.S. news media ensures favorable coverage of major issues such as GATT and NAFTA. But the U.S. press has also overcome the virulent anti‐communism of U.S. culture, and even changed sufficiently to now support Vietnam and China. A similar transition seems to be occurring in the U.S. pres…
Covering Dissent: The Media and the Anti-Vietnam War Movement
Journal Article Covering Dissent: The Media and the Anti-Vietnam War Movement. By Melvin Small. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1994. x, 228 pp. Cloth, $42.00, ISBN 0-8135-2106-8. Paper, $16.00, ISBN 0-8135-2107-6.) Get access William S. Solomon William S. Solomon Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 4, March 1…
Politics and Rhetoric in the Novel in the 1930s
E. W. Scripps and the Business of Newspapers
Journal Article E. W. Scripps and the Business of Newspapers. By Gerald J. Baldasty. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999. xiv, 217 pp. Cloth, $42.50, ISBN 0-252-02255-6. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-252-06750-9.) Get access William S. Solomon William S. Solomon Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, June 2000, Pages 25…
More Form than Substance: Press Coverage of the WTO Protests in Seattle
The mainstream U.S. news media have been shifting rightward for at least two decades, as their corporate owners enforce tighter ideological conformity. Oliver North and Pat Buchanan, for example, are now regular commentators on television talk shows. And all of the media now refer to people as "consumers," cogs in a capitalist machine. But still, news is less than half as profitable as entertainment, and media firms are intensifying pressures on …
Slapstick Modernism: Charley Bowers and Industrial Modernity
William Solomon (SUNY-Buffalo) asks us how vernacular and avant-garde comic practice might function as twinned responses to standardised mass-production and the rationalisation of the workplace. Returning us to the recently rediscovered comic films of Charley Bowers - a pioneer of animated silent film and a proto-surrealist bricoleur lionised by André Breton, Solomon demonstrates how Bowers' absurd machinic assemblages “generate laughter at the e…
On Comic Modernism: Impersonality in Eliot and Keaton
This essay seeks to illuminate the comic underpinnings of the modernist concept of impersonality in order to rethink the rhetorical affinities between T. S. Eliot and Buster Keaton. By rejecting romantic models of self-expression, the poet's compositional strategy in Inventions of the March Hare and the slapstick filmmaker's acting technique in The Playhouse exceed notions of fixed identity
The Ethics of Estrangement in Shklovsky and Chaplin
This article explores the interplay between Russian formalist aesthetic theory and the practice of American slapstick film. It proposes that Chaplin's early silent comedies both illustrate and influenced Viktor Shklovsky's concept of art as a means of estranging the world. In conclusion, it integrates a little-known late modernist film by Saul Levine, a radical underground filmmaker. This film, “The Big Stick/An Old Reel,” reworks two Chaplin sho…
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