Television and the Crisis of Democracy

Informationen zum Autor Ann Cvetkovich is associate professor of English and Douglas Kellner is professor of philosophy, both at the University of Texas at Austin. Klappentext This book offers the systematic, critically informed political and institutional study of television yet published in the United States. It evaluates the contradictory influence of television, a medium that has dramatized conflicts within society and has on occasion led to valuable social criticism. Zusammenfassung This book offers the systematic, critically informed political and institutional study of television yet published in the United States. It evaluates the contradictory influence of television, a medium that has dramatized conflicts within society and has on occasion led to valuable social criticism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and Acknowledgments -- Toward a Critical Theory of Television -- Broadcasting and the Rise of Network Television -- Television, Government, and Business: Toward a Critical/Institutional Theory -- Television, Politics, and the Making of Conservative Hegemony -- Alternatives -- Appendixes

Product details

• Authors: Douglas Kellner, Douglas M. Kellner, Kellner Douglas
• Publisher: Harper Collins Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.10.1990
• EAN: 9780813305493
• ISBN: 978-0-8133-0549-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Interventions--Theory & Contem
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Politische Strukturen und Prozesse, Soziologie und Anthropologie, Film-, Fernseh- und Radioindustrie