Equal time : television and the civil rights movement / / Aniko Bodroghkozy

• Autore: Bodroghkozy Aniko <1960->
• Pubblicazione: Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (282 p.)
• Disciplina: 302.23089/96073
• Soggetto topico: Television and politics - United States; Television broadcasting of news - Political aspects - United States; African Americans on television; Race relations on television; African Americans in television broadcasting - History - 20th century; Civil rights movements - United States - History - 20th century; Television broadcasting - United States - Influence
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-258) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Propaganda tool for racial progress? -- Network news in the civil rights years. The chosen instrument of the revolution? -- Fighting for equal time: segregationists vs. integrationists -- The March on Washington and a peek into racial utopia -- Selma in the "glaring light of television" -- Civil Rights in prime time entertainment. Bringing "urgent issues" to the vast wasteland: East side/West side -- Is this what you mean by color tv?: Julia -- Prime time, Good times -- Epilogue: the return of civil rights television: the Obama victory.
• Sommario/riassunto: This work explores the crucial role of network television in reconfiguring new attitudes in race relations during the civil rights movement. The book provides an analysis which makes us think about the relationship between the media and the civil rights movement.
• Titolo autorizzato: Equal time
• ISBN: 0-252-09378-X; 1-283-99250-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813536603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: History of communication.