Sunday Paper

Paul Moore is a professor of sociology at Ryerson University. He is the author of Now Playing: Early Moviegoing and the Regulation of Fun, winner of the Gertrude J. Robinson Prize. Sandra Gabriele is Vice-Provost for Innovation in Teaching and Learning and an associate professor of communication studies at Concordia University. She is a coeditor of Intersections of Media and Communications: Concepts and Critical Frameworks.

"Essential for communication collections and for anyone looking at book or literacy history of the period." --Choice"Paul Moore and Sandra Gabriele's The Sunday Paper: A Media History presents a narrative of the rise of a new form of media in an existing field of publishing power. . . . This book will be of great value for those scholars researching American newspapers as well as those with a theoretical background for understanding media within changing public spheres of knowledge production." --H-Net Reviews"An engaging and pleasantly readable text, supported by examples, illustrations, and primary sources. . . . The innovation, nurturing, and maturity of the Sunday paper, and its rippling cultural effects, makes for interesting, informative reading for just about everyone." --New York Pennsylvania Collector

• CoverTitleCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPART I. SUBSCRIPTION1. Subscribing to the Sunday Newspaper2. Appreciating the Art of the SupplementPART II. CIRCULATION3. The Intermedial Ideals of the Sunday Edition4. The Spectacle of Sunday DeliveryColor PlatesPART III. SYNDICATION5. The Corporeal Character of Circulation6. The "Continuous Performance Extra" of Popular LeisureConclusion: "Newspaper Reading" without a NewspaperNotesIndexBack cover