{"title":"Popular Assembly and Political Subjectivity in the European Illustrated Press of the 1840s","authors":"Jakob Kihlberg","doi":"10.1353/vpr.2022.0027","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Historical research on how people have come to identify as part of \"the people\" as a political collective has not paid much attention to the development of a market for visual news. To show how this market might have shaped political subjectivity, this essay analyses how magazines like the Illustrated London News, L'Illustration, and the Illustrirte Zeitung created a standardized pictorial language for depicting multitudes as political actors. It argues that this language was closely tied to the affordances of the magazines as periodicals, especially their ability to link images serially, and promoted a detached way of seeing popular mobilisation.","PeriodicalId":44337,"journal":{"name":"Victorian Periodicals Review","volume":"55 1","pages":"315 - 339"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Victorian Periodicals Review","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vpr.2022.0027","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:Historical research on how people have come to identify as part of "the people" as a political collective has not paid much attention to the development of a market for visual news. To show how this market might have shaped political subjectivity, this essay analyses how magazines like the Illustrated London News, L'Illustration, and the Illustrirte Zeitung created a standardized pictorial language for depicting multitudes as political actors. It argues that this language was closely tied to the affordances of the magazines as periodicals, especially their ability to link images serially, and promoted a detached way of seeing popular mobilisation.
摘要:关于人们如何认同作为政治集体的“人民”的一部分的历史研究,并没有关注视觉新闻市场的发展。为了展示这个市场是如何塑造政治主体性的,本文分析了《伦敦新闻画报》(Illustrated London News)、《插画》(L’illustration)和《画报》(illustrite Zeitung)等杂志是如何创造出一种标准化的图片语言,将大众描绘成政治角色的。它认为,这种语言与杂志作为期刊的功能密切相关,特别是它们将图像串联起来的能力,并促进了一种看到大众动员的超然方式。