| Description |
xv, 303 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / Lawrence W. Lichty -- Introduction / Douglas Gomery -- Literacy, Popular Culture, and Advertising. 1. Toward a History of Reading / Robert Darnton. 2. The Birth of Public Opinion / Anthony J. La Vopa. 3. P. T. Barnum and the American Museum / A. H. Saxon. 4. The Rise of American Advertising / T. J. Jackson Lears. Further Reading: Literacy, Popular Culture, and Advertising -- News and Politics. 5. Newspapers in Transition / Leo Bogart. 6. Newspeople / James Boylan. 7. Ambivalent Victorian / H. L. Mencken and T. J. Jackson Lears. 8. Politics Transformed / Robert J. Donovan and Ray Scherer. 9. How to Read the Campaign / Michael Cornfield. Further Reading: News and Politics -- Movies and Music. 10. Hollywood's Business Today / Douglas Gomery. 11. The Movies and TV: A Revisionist History / Douglas Gomery. 12. We are not Alone / Frank D. McConnell. 13. A Footnote to History: MGM Meets the Atomic Bomb / Nathan Reingold |
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14. Hollow Rock and the Lost Blues Connection / Martha Bayles. 15. This Surprising Business of Country Music / Douglas Gomery. Further Reading: Movies and Music -- Television and New Technologies. 16. As the Dial Turns / Douglas Gomery. 17. Flat and Happy / Todd Gitlin. 18. Seeing Through the Tube / Frank D. McConnell. 19. In Search of the Cybermarket / Douglas Gomery. 20. Learning from the Net / Edward Tenner. 21. The Cultural Consequences of the Information Superhighway / Tom Maddox. Further Reading: Television and New Technologies |
| Summary |
Twenty outstanding essays from the engaging and readable Wilson Quarterly magazine illuminate journalism, entertainment, and the cultural underpinnings of modern communications. Media in America's sections cover literacy, popular culture, and advertising; news and politics; movies and music; and television and new media technologies. A natural for classes in journalism and media studies, Media in America: The Wilson Quarterly Reader includes the best and most relevant material from twenty years of the Wilson Quarterly, adds one original article, and offers bibliographic essays indicating additional reading in all areas of media studies |
| Notes |
Rev. ed. of: American media / edited by Philip S. Cook. 1989 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Mass media -- United States.
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Popular culture -- United States.
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| Author |
Gomery, Douglas.
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| LC no. |
98013340 |
| ISBN |
0943875862 (alk. paper) |
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0943875870 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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