The Crisis of the cultural environment : media & democracy in the 21st century / Media Education Foundation ; featuring George Gerbner ; produced & directed by Sut Jhally.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Jhally, Sut, producer, director.

Gerbner, George, interviewee.

Media Education Foundation, producer, distributor.

Series:

George Gerbner on media and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television--Social aspects.

Television.

Mass media and culture--United States.

Mass media and culture.

Television broadcasting--Ownership.

Television broadcasting.

United States.

Capitalism and mass media.

Broadcasting policy--United States.

Broadcasting policy.

Genre:

Interviews.

Documentary films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (30 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

polychrome

Other Title:

Media and democracy in the 21st century

Place of Publication:

Northampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, [2002]

System Details:

DVD.

digital

optical

video file

DVD video

Summary:

Dr. George Gerbner delivers a stinging indictment of the way the information superhighway is being constructed. He shows the ineffectual nature of our present responses to the urgent crisis of the media. He urges the citizens of the world to struggle for democratic principles in the cultural environment.

Contents:

57 channels & nothing on

Who will control the 500 channels?

Global expansion

Public funded television : an alternative

Taxation without representation : the commercial funding of TV

The V-chip : the fox guarding the chicken coop

Democracy in a media age

Don't agonize : organize.

Participant:

George Gerbner.

Credits:

Edited by Sut Jhally, Sanjay Talreja, Kim Neumann.

Notes:

DVD release of the 1997 documentary.

"Study guides and more information on Media Education Foundation available at: http://www.igc.org/mef."--Screen.

ISBN:

1893521435

OCLC:

52232326