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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797353003321

Titolo

A moment of danger : critical studies in the history of U.S. communication since World War II / / edited by Janice Peck & Inger L. Stole

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milwaukee, Wisconsin : , : Marquette University Press, , [2011]

©2011

ISBN

0-87462-035-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (419 p.)

Collana

Diederich studies in media and communication ; ; number 2

Disciplina

302.23

Soggetti

Communication - United States - History - 20th century

Mass media - United States - History - 20th century

Mass media - Social aspects - United States - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: moments of danger and challenges to the selective tradition in U.S. communication history / Janice Peck -- Politics as patriotism: advertising and consumer activism during World War II / Inger L. Stole -- The revolt against radio: postwar media criticism and the struggle for broadcast reform / Victor Pickard -- "Our union is not for sale": the postwar struggle for workplace control in the American newspaper industry / James F. Tracy -- "Things will never be the same around here": How See it now shaped television news reporting / Dinah Zeiger -- "We can remember it for you wholesale": lessons from the broadcast blacklist / Carol A. Stabile -- Foreign correspondents, passports and McCarthyism / Edward Alwood -- "Love that AFL-CIO": organized labor's use of television, 1950-1970 / Nathan Godfried -- A moment of danger. The postwar "TV problem" and the creation of public television in the U.S. / Laurie Ouellette -- Lockouts, protests, and scabs: a critical assessment of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner strike / Bonnie Brennen -- The reporters' rebellion: The Chicago journalism review, 1968-1975 / Stephen Macek -- Oprah Winfrey, new liberalism and the politics of race in late twentieth century America / Janice Peck -- Public radio, This American life and the neoliberal turn / Jason Loviglio -- "Sticking it to the man". Neoliberalism: corporate



media and strategies of resistance in the 21st century / Deepa Kumar -- Contesting democratic communications: the case of current TV / James F. Hamilton -- Critical media literacy: critiquing corporate media with radical production / Bettina Fabos.