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edocfu_9959243822102883
Umfang:
1 online resource (xii, 618 p. )
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ill. ;
ISBN:
0-520-90684-5
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0-585-12183-4
Inhalt:
On subjects from Superman to rock 'n' roll, from Donald Duck to the TV news, from soap operas and romance novels to the use of double speak in advertising, these lively essays offer students of contemporary media a comprehensive counterstatement to the conservatism that has been ascendant since the seventies in American politics and cultural criticism. Donald Lazere brings together selections from nearly forty of the most prominent Marxist, feminist, and other leftist critics of American mass culture-from a dozen academic disciplines and fields of media activism. The collection will appeal to a wide range of students, scholars, and general readers.
Anmerkung:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Introduction : Entertainment as Social Control / Donald Lazere -- Part I : Media and manipulation -- Reshaping the Truth : Pragmatists and Propagandists in America / Alex Carey -- Selling to Ms. Consumer / Carol Ascher -- The Blockbuster Decades : The Media as Big Business / Walter Powell -- The Corporate Complaint Against the Media / Peter Dreier -- Conservative Media Criticism : Heads I Win, Tails You Lose / Donald Lazere -- Part II : Capitalism and Americann mythology -- Doublespeak and Ideology in Ads : a Kit for Teachers / Richard Ohmann -- Stars, Status, Mobility / Jeremy Tunstall -- From Menace to Messiah : the History and Historicity of Superman / Thomas Andrae -- Domesticating Nature / Todd Gitlin -- The Infantilizing of Culture / Ariel Dorfman -- Part III : Moments of historical consciousness -- Shirley Temple and the House of Rockefeller / Charles Eckert -- Frank Capra and the Popular Front / Leonard Quart -- The Politics of Power in On the Waterfront / Peter Biskind -- Machismo and Hollywood's Working Class / Peter Biskind and Barbar Ehrenreich -- Gimme Shelter : Feminism, Fantasy, and Women's Popular Fiction / Kate Ellis -- Part IV : The mass-mediation of popular and oppositional culture -- Television's Screens : Hegemony in Transition / Todd Gitlin -- The Search for Tomorrow in Today's Soap Operas / Tania Modleski -- The Blues Tradition : Poetic Revolt or Cultural Impasse? / Carl Boggs and Ray Pratt -- Working People's Music / George Lipsitz -- Rock and Popular Culture / Simon Frith.
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Part V : Ideology in perception, structure and genre -- Representation and the News Narrative : The Web of Facticity / Gaye Tuchman -- Daffy Duck and Bertolt Brecht : Toward a Politics of Self-Reflexive Cinema? / Dana B. Polan -- Women and Representation : Can We Enjoy Alternative Pleasure? / Jane Gaines -- Masterpiece Theatre and the Uses of Tradition / Timothy Brennan -- The Liberating Potential of the Fantastic in Contemporary Fairy Tales for Children / Jack Zipes -- Part VI : Media, literacy and political socialization -- The Teachings of the Media Curriculum / Neil Postman -- Class as the Determinant of Political Communication / Claus Mueller -- Charting the Mainstream : Television's Contributions to Political Orientations / George Gerbner, Larry Gross, Michael Morgan, and Nancy Signorielli -- Mass Culture and the Eclipse of Reason : The Implications for Pedagogy / Stanley Aronowitz -- Part VII : From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli : cultural imperialism -- Ambush at Kamikaze Pass / Tom Englehardt -- Sports and the American Empire / Mark Naison -- Introduction to How to Read Donald Duck / David Kunzle -- The Great Parachutist / Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart -- Media Imperialism? / Jeremy Tunstall -- Part VIII : Alternatives and cultural activisim -- Should News Be Sold for Profit? / Christopher Jencks -- An Alternative American Communications System / Robert Cirino -- Pacifica Radio and the Politics of Culture / Clare Spark -- A Course on Spectator Sports / Louis Kampf -- Rethinking Guerrilla Theater, 1971, 1985 / R. G. Davis -- Public Access Television : Alternative Views / Douglas Kellner.
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Issued also in print.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-520-04496-7
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1525/9780520906846
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