Ebook: The citizen machine: governing by television in 1950s America
Author: McCarthy Anna
- Tags: Advocacy advertising--United States, SOCIAL SCIENCE--Media Studies, Television broadcasting--Philosophy, Television viewers--United States--Attitudes, Political culture--United States, Television broadcasting--Social aspects--United States, Television and politics--United States, Television advertising--United States, Political culture, Television advertising, Television and politics, Television broadcasting--Social aspects, Television viewers--Attitudes, Advocacy advertising, Television and politics -- Unit
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: New Press
- City: New York;United States
- Language: English
- epub
The Citizen Machine is the untold political history of television s formative era. Historian Anna McCarthy goes behind the scenes of early television programming, revealing that long before the age of PBS, leaders from business, philanthropy, and social reform movements as well as public intellectuals were all obsessively concerned with TV s potential to mold the right kind of citizen. Based on years of path-breaking archival work, The Citizen Machine sheds new light on the place of television in the postwar American political landscape.;Introduction : television and political culture after World War II -- Sponsors and citizens -- The politics of wooden acting -- The ends of the middlebrow -- Liberal media -- Labor goes public -- Epilogue.
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