Trash TV and Raunch Radio : Raising Standards of Popular Culture
Every day America's youth is being exposed to hideously inappropriate speech and behaviour by role models in TV, film, radio, and the music industry. To fight this slide toward Gomorrah a campaign called "The Parents Television Council" has been launched. This book describes what the council is doing to raise our cultural standards.
This text shows how news articles draw from age-old tales that have chastened, challenged, and entranced people since the beginning of time. Beneath the facade of current events, it identifies such enduring archetypes as the innocent victim, the trickster and the hero.
The affair between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky was a huge media story. This book provides a forum for assessing the cultural, political and public policy issues raised by the investigation, publicity and Congressional impeachment proceedings surrounding the affair.
The affair between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky was a huge media story. This book provides a forum for assessing the cultural, political and public policy issues raised by the investigation, publicity and Congressional impeachment proceedings surrounding the affair.
A Colorful History of Tabloids and Their Cultural Impact
A history of America's supermarket tabloids, it offers a look at the world of tabloid journalism, and especially the personalities that made it a successful and influential force in media. It profiles the publishing eccentrics who conceived the first national tabloids.
Crackling with the personalities, conflicts, and ambitions that transformed the media from something that followed the news to something that formed it, The Powers That Be is David Halberstam's forceful account of the rise of modern media as an instrument of political power, published here with a new introduction by the author. Beginning with ......
Multiculturalism has become an ambiguous but potent battle cry in US society, lauded by proponents as a call to tolerate different cultural traditions and values, and deplored by detractors as an attack on the highest standards of Western culture. This anthology explores this controversial social movement from various humanist perspectives.
This work shows that studying the interpretative methods of spectators in their historical contexts is necessary to understand the media's role in culture and in our personal lives. This approach is applied to topics such as depictions of violence and demonstrated through works like JFK.
This work shows that studying the interpretative methods of spectators in their historical contexts is necessary to understand the media's role in culture and in our personal lives. This approach is applied to topics such as depictions of violence and demonstrated through works like JFK.
