Television And The Crisis Of Democracy / Edition 1

by Douglas Kellner

Overview

This book offers the systematic, critically informed political and institutional study of television yet published in the United States. It evaluates the contradictory influence of television, a medium that has dramatized conflicts within society and has on occasion led to valuable social criticism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367320249
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/01/2019
Pages:	303
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ann Cvetkovich is associate professor of English and Douglas Kellner is professor of philosophy, both at the University of Texas at Austin.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments -- Toward a Critical Theory of Television -- Broadcasting and the Rise of Network Television -- Television, Government, and Business: Toward a Critical/Institutional Theory -- Television, Politics, and the Making of Conservative Hegemony -- Alternatives -- Appendixes