Les corps du reporter : corps propre, corps « témoin », corps public

Abstract

This study, based on a collection of articles from the press of the Third Republic, draws a sensory history of reportage, as the testimonies of the reporters allow it. The representation of the reporter’s body is not a superficial modality of the protocol of news writing and investigative reportage invented at the end of the Nineteenth century. On the contrary, it fully participates in reportage practices, and assures the authenticity of the testimony. The body experience being painful or sensual, extraordinary or attached to the common practices of the new culture of leisure reveals something of the possible ways of feeling and testifying in media culture. Exposing, in the newspaper, the sensory intimacy of a subject, the body of the reporter is at the crossroads of individuality and community, of singular feeling and of a collectively acceptable experience.

Keywords

• Reportage
• Histoire des sensibilités
• Corps
• Témoignage
• Journal
• France