Create Your Own Class
on The Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture
Using IJPC Materials

Revised: 9-2007

Faculty members can create a class on any aspect of the image of the journalist in popular culture by using IJPC materials. Some professors create large lecture classes using the introductory video tapes, and then renting or buying films locally or through the IJPC database. Others use some or all of the 28 2 1/2-hour documentaries Professor Saltzman created for his USC Annenberg class. Some faculty members use IJPC tapes in their history, media and skills' courses. All the IJPC materials are available to IJPC Associates exclusively.

TWENTY-EIGHT 2 ½-HOUR DOCUMENTARIES on the Image of the Journalist in Film and Television from 1914 to 1990 available to all IJPC Associates. Contents of each tape are listed in the IJPC Class Syllabus.

IJPC CLASS SYLLABUS: Syllabus for The Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture, USC Annenberg School class. Consists of 28 classes with 28 video documentaries especially edited for the class representing more than 60 hours of video including multiple excerpts from nearly 650 films and television titles. More than 1,000 items were viewed and analyzed. Syllabus runs 188 pages and it is divided into Instructor, Class Schedule, Suggested Reading, Glossary, and Download the PDF.

INTRODUCTORY 166-MINUTE VIDEO TAPE (IJPC 2006 Premium Tape, "IJPC Video Eight," for personal use only): The Image of the Broadcast Journalist in Movies and Television, 1937-2006 with 207 movie and television clips tracing the image of the journalist in films and television from 1937 to 2006 featuring radio and TV journalists. Only available to IJPC Associates. Detailed lesson plan keyed to this video is available.

INTRODUCTORY TWO-HOUR VIDEO TAPE (IJPC 2005 Premium Tape, "IJPC Video Five," for personal use only): Real-Life Journalists in Movies and Television, 1939-2003 with 61 movie and television clips tracing the image of the journalist in films and television from 1931 to 2003 featuring real-life journalists or actors portraying real-life journalists or movies based on the lives of real-life journalists. Only available to IJPC Associates.

INTRODUCTORY ONE-HOUR VIDEO TAPE (IJPC 2004 Premium Tape, "IJPC Video Two," for personal use only): Sob Sisters: The Image of the Female Journalist, 1929-2003 with more than 90 movie and television clips documenting the history of the female journalist in film and television in the 20th and 21st centuries. Only available to IJPC Associates.

INTRODUCTORY 80-MINUTE VIDEO TAPE (IJPC 2003 Premium Tape, "IJPC Video Two," Revised in 2005, for personal use only) Hollywood Looks at the News, 1914-2003, a collection of more than 100 clips documenting the history of the journalist in film and television in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Hard to find films and television programs available to IJPC Associates only through the The Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture (IJPC) Database© IJPC Database.

  • Possible Classes Created Out of IJPC Materials:
  • Individual Tapes for a variety of journalism courses.
    A sampling:
    • Sob Sisters of the Thirties
    • War Correspondents of the Forties
    • Science Fiction and Reporters of the Fifties
    • Investigative Reporters of the Sixties
    • Foreign Correspondents of the Seventies
    • TV Reporters of the Eighties
    • Real-Life Journalists in Movies and Television

Exclusive use of The Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture (IJPC) Database© 2007 Edition containing more than 64,600 items.

Institutional Membership: $150. Individual Membership: $35

Contact: Joe Saltzman, IJPC Director, saltzman@usc.edu
Annenberg School for Communication (Room 102B)
University of Southern California, 3502 Watt Way, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0281
Telephone: 213-740-3918 -- Fax: 310-377-7935