COM 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Printing, Woodblock Printing, Movable Type
17 Oct 2017
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Ch 10 outline - books and the power of print. Oldest mass medium, still most in uential and diverse. Feared that tv would replace books, but industry is still growing. The history of books from papyrus to paperback. Egyptians wrote on papyrus, adopted by greeks, gradually parchment replaced. Codex: book of sewn sheets of parchment created by romans. Manuscript culture: books made by hand: promoted christian ideas and censored others. Illuminated manuscripts: colorful designs on each page made for churches or wealthy clients: developed punctuation. Block printing: developed by chinese, paper applied to blocks of wood with letters. Movable type rst invented in china around 1000: reusable pieces of wood/metal. Canterbury tales rst english work printed in book form. People di erentiated themselves as individuals, no longer blindly followed leaders. Early novels connected with literate middle classes, esp young women nding own identity. Pulp fiction: referred to pulp paper early paperbacks were printed on.
