A moment of danger : critical studies in the history of U.S. communication since World War II / edited by Janice Peck & Inger L. Stole.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Peck, Janice, editor.

Stole, Inger L., editor.

Series:

Diederich studies in media and communication ; no. 2.

Diederich studies in media and communication ; number 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication--United States--History--20th century.

Communication.

Mass media--United States--History--20th century.

Mass media.

Mass media--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (419 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milwaukee, Wisconsin : Marquette University Press, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In A Moment of Danger: Critical Studies in the History of U.S. Communication Since World War II, Janice Peck and Inger L. Stole have collected sixteen essays that examine the remarkable role that media have played in post-WWII U.S. history. From an examination of the impact that the cold war and Senator McCarthy had on media content in the 1950s to an analysis of the role that Oprah Winfrey has played in shaping understandings of race in American culture, A Moment of Danger offers a wide array of critical studies, all of which, however, aim at thinking carefully not only about the way in which the modes of media keep us in contact with the world, but also about how they shape the way we understand ourselves and our world.

Contents:

Introduction: moments of danger and challenges to the selective tradition in U.S. communication history / Janice Peck

Politics as patriotism: advertising and consumer activism during World War II / Inger L. Stole

The revolt against radio: postwar media criticism and the struggle for broadcast reform / Victor Pickard

"Our union is not for sale": the postwar struggle for workplace control in the American newspaper industry / James F. Tracy

"Things will never be the same around here": How See it now shaped television news reporting / Dinah Zeiger

"We can remember it for you wholesale": lessons from the broadcast blacklist / Carol A. Stabile

Foreign correspondents, passports and McCarthyism / Edward Alwood

"Love that AFL-CIO": organized labor's use of television, 1950-1970 / Nathan Godfried

A moment of danger. The postwar "TV problem" and the creation of public television in the U.S. / Laurie Ouellette

Lockouts, protests, and scabs: a critical assessment of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner strike / Bonnie Brennen

The reporters' rebellion: The Chicago journalism review, 1968-1975 / Stephen Macek

Oprah Winfrey, new liberalism and the politics of race in late twentieth century America / Janice Peck

Public radio, This American life and the neoliberal turn / Jason Loviglio

"Sticking it to the man". Neoliberalism: corporate media and strategies of resistance in the 21st century / Deepa Kumar

Contesting democratic communications: the case of current TV / James F. Hamilton

Critical media literacy: critiquing corporate media with radical production / Bettina Fabos.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-87462-035-X

OCLC:

929504065