Beyond bias : conservative media, documentary form, and the politics of hysteria / Scott Krzych.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krzych, Scott, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Political aspects--United States.

Motion pictures.

Conservatism in motion pictures--United States.

Conservatism in motion pictures.

Documentary films--United States--History and criticism.

Documentary films.

Communication in politics--United States.

Communication in politics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Summary:

'Bias' is a term that circulates frequently in the contemporary landscape of political media, a term intended to diagnose a failure when media outlets fail to maintain journalistic objectivity. 'Beyond Bias' interrogates what would seem, at first glance, to be examples of utterly biased political media-contemporary conservative documentary films. However, rather than dismiss such cases of political representation as exemplars of ideological nonsense, reactionary propaganda, and so on, the text locates. in conservative media. a mode of discourse central to contemporary democratic debate in the United States. Specifically, this book identifies conservative media as a mode of hysterical discourse.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 12, 2021).

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-755125-4

0-19-755123-8

0-19-755124-6