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Montgomery Kathryn C. |
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Titolo |
Target : prime time : advocacy groups and the struggle over entertainment television / / Kathryn C. Montgomery |
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New York, New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1989 |
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©1989 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-52473-1 |
0-19-802165-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (289 p.) |
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Collana |
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Communication and Society |
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Disciplina |
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Television broadcasting - Social aspects - United States |
Pressure groups - United States |
Minorities on television |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Chapter 1. Prime Time as Political Territory; Chapter 2. Television Under Siege; Chapter 3. And Then Came Maude . . .; Chapter 4. Managing Advocacy Groups; Chapter 5. Invisibility and Influence; Chapter 6. He Who Pays the Piper; Chapter 7. Battle over Beulah Land; Chapter 8. Cleaning Up TV; Chapter 9. The Hollywood Lobbyists; Chapter 10. Packaging Controversy; Chapter 11. From Ferment to Feedback; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y |
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Offering the first book-length exploration of network television's relations with advocacy groups, Kathryn C. Montgomery presents a comprehensive picture of the impact of organized pressure on prime-time TV. She vividly describes, for example, how the Catholic Church campaigned againstMaude's abortion on the TV show, Maude; how outraged actors mobilized a national protest against the portrayal of blacks in the TV miniseries, Beulah Land; and how the Moral Majority waged a sophisticated campaign to ""clean up TV,"" by threatening to boycott advertisers. Exposing the inner workings of netw |
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