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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: It's show time! New York : P. Lang, c2000 (OCoLC)646932532 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David A Schultz |
| ISBN: | 082044135X 9780820441351 |
| OCLC Number: | 42692122 |
| Description: | xiv, 277 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Preface: Kenny meets George Washington or, "Come on down, your 15 minutes of fame are now!" / David Schultz -- ch. 1 American as baseball and apple pie / John M. Bublic -- ch. 2. The cultural contradictions of the American media / David Schultz -- ch. 3. The protest paradigm and news coverage of the "right to party" movement / Douglas M. McLeod -- ch. 4. Mass media, citizenship, and democracy : revitalizing deliberation? / Gregory W. Streich -- ch. 5. Mirror, mirror? The politics of television science fiction / Rex Brynen -- ch. 6. Political cynicism and its contradictions in the public, news, and entertainment / Stephanie Greco Larson -- ch. 7. Criminals and buffoons: the portrayal of elected officials on entertainment television / Tracy L. Gladstone-Sovell -- ch. 8. "As brave as Stallone, as beautiful as Brooke Shields" POW Rathbun-Nealy and American military women in the Gulf War / Martha F. Lee and Cynthia Nantais -- ch. 9. "Mr. Smith tells Congress to go to Hell" : celebrity and performance in the Iran-Contra affair / Amy Fried -- ch. 10. Synthetic history and subjective reality : the impact of Oliver Stone's film, JFK / Jim Kelly and Bill Elliott -- ch. 11. C-SPAN : a window on the political process / Stephen E. Frantzich -- ch. 12. Democracy's rebirth or demise? The influence of the Internet on political attitudes / Thomas J. Johnson and Barbara K. Kaye -- ch. 13. The incendiary Internet : hate speech and the public good / Donna Bertazzoni and Janis Judson -- ch. 14. Going online : the future of the news media / John E. Hughes. |
| Series Title: | Politics, media & popular culture, v. 2. |
| Responsibility: | edited by David A. Schultz. |
Abstract:
"It's Show Time! Media, Politics, and Popular Culture is a collection of original essays introducing undergraduate students and interested readers to the important role that the media and popular culture have in shaping their lives and views on politics. Written by both political scientists and journalists, this book looks at the diverse ways television, movies, the internet, and even soap operas mold public opinion and define how we view political reality.
However, as these essays will reveal, this socialization is not all benign. Instead, this book reveals a corporate media increasingly trapped by the demands to inform, entertain, and make a profit - often at times distorting reality by transforming criminals into heroes, assassination theories into fact, and participatory government into a spectator sport.
Overall, It's Show Time! explores the limits and possibilities of the media and emerging information technologies as they shape political perceptions and politics into the twenty-first century."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Mass media and culture -- United States.
- Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States.
- United States -- Civilization -- 1970-
- Médias et culture -- États-Unis.
- Médias -- Aspect politique -- États-Unis.
- États-Unis -- Civilisation -- 1970-
- Massamedia.
- Politieke beïnvloeding.
- Populaire cultuur.
- Massenkultur -- Massenmedien -- USA.
- Massenmedien -- Massenkultur -- USA.
- USA -- Massenkultur -- Massenmedien.
