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Cold War, cool medium
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Thomas Patrick Doherty |
"Conventional wisdom holds that television was a coconspirator in the repressions of Cold War America, that it was a facilitator to the blacklist and handmaiden to McCarthyism. But Thomas Doherty arg… |
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The Stewart/Colbert effect
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Amarnath Amarasingam |
"The ten essays in this interdisciplinary collection explore the issues engendered by the popularity of entertainment news, including the role of satire in politics, the declining level of trust in t… |
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Screen enemies of the American way
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Fraser A. Sherman |
"American films, like America itself, have long been fascinated by the threat of outsiders posing as citizens to destroy the American way of life. This book tracks real-world fears appearing in the m… |
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Teens, TV and tunes
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Doyle Greene |
"This political analysis of teen culture examines the historical and ideological development of American youth society, the economic and ideological relationship between television and popular music,… |
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Gilligan unbound
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Cantor, Paul A. |
"In Gilligan Unbound, a distinguished Shakespeare scholar and literary critic proves once and for all that popular culture can be every bit as complex, meaningful, and provocative as the most celebra… |
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Truth and duty
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Mary Mapes |
This book is a riveting account of how the public's right to know is being attacked by an unholy alliance among politicians, news organizations and corporate America, from the producer at the heart o… |
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Manufacturing Consent
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Quebec) Institute of Policy Alternatives (Montreal,Mark Achbar,Peter Wintonick |
Explores the political life and times of the controversial author, linguist, and dissident, Noam Chomsky. As an outspoken critic of the press, Chomsky maintains that our much-acclaimed democratic fre… |
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