Revolutions in Communication
Media history from Gutenberg to the Digital Age
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  • About
    • Adopted worldwide
    • For history instructors
    • About the book
      • Reviews
      • Acknowledgements
      • Lacunae & errata
    • About the author
  • Course
    • Model course calendar
    • Lecture Slides 1 — Intro & Print Revolution
    • Lecture Slides 2 — Visual Revolution
    • Lecture Slides 3 – Electronic Revolution
    • Lecture Slides 4 — Digital Revolution
  • Chapters
    • Ch 0 Introduction to media history
      • Ch 0 About history
      • Ch 0 About historians
      • Ch 0 Media & technology
    • Ch 1 Printing
      • Ch 1 Videos & Podcasts
      • Ch 1 Further reading
    • Ch 2 Industrial press
    • Ch 3 Modern press
      • Ch3 War correspondents
      • Ch3 Muckraking, gonzo & sports
      • Ch3 Demise of the newspaper
    • Ch 4 Photography
    • Ch 5 Cinema
    • Ch 6 Advertising & PR
    • Ch 7 Telegraph & telephone
      • Ch7 The first wire services
    • Ch 8 Radio
      • Ch8 Inside radio
      • Ch 8 Music & the internet
    • Ch 9 Television
    • Ch 10 Computers
    • Ch 11 Networks
      • Ch 11.Data visualization
    • Ch 12 Global cultures
  • Features
    • Life in the old printing ‘chapel’
      • The Spirit of the Chapel 
      • Building a replica press
    • Ben Franklin’s environmental controversy
    • Three monopolies that built the telegraph
      • News before & after the telegraph
    • Radio and the Titanic
    • Civil rights and the press
    • II Civil rights & the press
    • Science & environmental journalism
      • Science & environmental press
      • Walter Lippmann and the radium girls
      • Teddy bears and mind bombs
    • Radio time machine
    • Street press of the Velvet Revolution
    • The Retro-Future of Communication
    • Rebuilding community media
    • Newsroom of the future (via ChatGPT)
  • Photography
    • Photography 1820s – 1880s
    • Photography 1880s – 1920s
    • Photography – Migrant Mother
    • Photography 1920s – 40s
    • Photography in WWII
    • Photography 1950s-70s
    • Modern era
  • Cinema /TV
    • Early experiments
    • African American film pioneers
      • Oscar Micheaux
    • Animation
    • The Silent Era
    • Golden Age of Hollywood
    • Film censorship
    • Newsreels
    • Documentaries
    • European cinema (mid-20th century)
    • WWII propaganda
    • 1960s & 70s
    • Blockbusters
    • Public domain comm films
    • TV 1950s – 60s
    • TV 1970s-80s
    • TV 1990s – 2000s
  • Research
    • Content analysis
    • Books about the Media
    • Movies about the Media
    • Museums and collections
    • Travel & Adventure
  • Hands-On History
    • Writing
    • Printing
    • The Nellie Bly game
    • Signals & codes
    • Golden age of radio
    • Cinema
      • TDIH
  • Int’l media
    • NGOs and the UN
    • Wire services
    • Global Media development 1940s–1970s
    • Media globalization 1980s – 2000s
    • History of African media
    • History of Asian media
    • History of European media
    • History of Latin American media
    • History of Middle Eastern media
    • History of North and Central American media

This Day in History: 1928-08-14

Lina Wertmüller, Italian film director known for  Seven Beauties, The Seduction of Mimi, Love and Anarchy and Swept Away is born on this day in 1928.   Seven Beauties led to a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Director — the first ever for a woman.

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