American Media and Mass Culture: Left PerspectivesDonald Lazere University of California Press, 7 dic 1987 - 618 pagine On subjects from Superman to rock 'n' roll, from Donald Duck to the TV news, from soap operas and romance novels to the use of double speak in advertising, these lively essays offer students of contemporary media a comprehensive counterstatement to the conservatism that has been ascendant since the seventies in American politics and cultural criticism. Donald Lazere brings together selections from nearly forty of the most prominent Marxist, feminist, and other leftist critics of American mass culture-from a dozen academic disciplines and fields of media activism. The collection will appeal to a wide range of students, scholars, and general readers. |
Sommario
Further Readings | 24 |
Further Readings | 32 |
Selling to Ms Consumer CAROL ASCHER | 43 |
The Media as Big Business | 53 |
The Corporate Complaint Against the Media | 64 |
Heads I Win Tails | 81 |
Introduction | 97 |
Further Readings | 104 |
IDEOLOGY IN PERCEPTION STRUCTURE AND GENRE | 321 |
Further Readings | 329 |
Toward a Politics of SelfReflexive | 345 |
Can We Enjoy Alternative Pleasure? | 357 |
Masterpiece Theatre and the Uses of Tradition TIMOTHY BRENNAN | 373 |
The Liberating Potential of the Fantastic in Contemporary Fairy Tales | 384 |
Introduction | 407 |
Further Readings | 417 |
Stars Status Mobility JEREMY TUNSTALL | 116 |
The History and Historicity of Superman | 124 |
Domesticating Nature TODD GITLIN | 139 |
The Infantilizing of Culture ARIEL DORFMAN | 145 |
Introduction | 157 |
Shirley Temple and the House of Rockefeller CHARLES ECKERT | 164 |
Frank Capra and the Popular Front LEONARD QUART | 178 |
The Politics of Power in On the Waterfront | 184 |
Machismo and Hollywoods Working Class PETER BISKIND | 201 |
Feminism Fantasy and Womens Popular Fiction | 216 |
THE MASSMEDIATION OF POPULAR | 231 |
Further Readings | 237 |
The Search for Tomorrow in Todays Soap Operas | 266 |
Poetic Revolt or Cultural Impasse? CARL BOGGS | 279 |
Working Peoples Music GEORGE LIPSITZ | 293 |
Rock and Popular Culture SIMON FRITH | 309 |
Class as the Determinant of Political Communication | 431 |
Televisions Contributions to Political | 441 |
The Implications | 465 |
FROM THE HALLS OF MONTEZUMA TO THE SHORES | 473 |
Ambush at Kamikaze Pass TOM ENGELHARDT | 480 |
Sports and the American Empire MARK NAISON | 499 |
Introduction to How to Read Donald Duck | 516 |
The Great Parachutist ARIEL DORFMAN | 530 |
Media Imperialism? JEREMY TUNSTALL | 540 |
Introduction | 555 |
Should News Be Sold for Profit? CHRISTOPHER JENCKS | 564 |
Pacifica Radio and the Politics of Culture CLARE SPARK | 577 |
A Course on Spectator Sports LOUIS KAMPF | 591 |
Rethinking Guerrilla Theater 1971 1985 R G DAVIS | 599 |
Alternative Views DOUGLAS KELLNER | 610 |
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