Cultural citizenship : cosmopolitanism, consumerism, and television in a neoliberal age / / Toby Miller

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910823661603321
• Autore: Miller Toby
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2007
• ISBN: 1-281-09378-5; 9786611093785; 1-59213-562-5
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (248 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.0973
• Soggetti: Culture - Study and teaching - United States; Consumption (Economics) - United States; Mass media - United States; United States Politics and government
• 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 (p. [181]-228) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: What is cultural citizenship? -- Television terror: being ignorant, living in Manhattan -- Television food: from Brahmin Julia to working-class Emeril -- Television weather: tomorrow will be-- risky and disciplined.
• Sommario/riassunto: What does it mean to be a ""citizen"" today, in an age of unbridled consumerism, terrorism, militarism, and multinationalism? In this passionate and dazzling book, Toby Miller dares to answer this question with the depth of thought it deserves. Fast-moving and far-ranging, Cultural Citizenship blends fact, theory, observation, and speculation in a way that continually startles and engages the reader. Although he is unabashedly liberal in his politics, Miller is anything but narrow minded. He looks at media coverage of September 11th and the Iraq invasion as well as ""infotainment"