Whole World Is Watching Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left

Name: Whole World Is Watching Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left
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ISBN: 9780520239326

ISBN-10: 0520239326

ISBN-13: 9780520239326

Edition: 2nd 2005

Authors: Todd Gitlin

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"The whole world is watching!" chanted the demonstrators in the Chicago streets in 1968, as the TV cameras beamed images of police cracking heads into homes everywhere. In this classic book, originally published in 1980, acclaimed media critic Todd Gitlin first scrutinizes major news coverage in the early days of the antiwar movement. Drawing on his own experiences (he was president of the Students for a Democratic Society in 1963-64) and on interviews with key activists and news reporters, he shows in detail how the media first ignore new political developments, then select and emphasize aspects of the story that treat movements as oddities. He then demonstrates how the media glare made…

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List price: $34.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 5/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Todd Gitlin is a professor of culture, journalism, and sociology at New York University. He lives in New York City.



Preface to the 2003 Edition


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Images of a Movement



Preliminaries



Versions of SDS, Spring 1965



SDS in the Spotlight, Fall 1965



Media in the Making and Unmaking of the Movement



Organizational Crisis, 1965



Certifying Leaders and Converting Leadership to Celebrity



Inflating Rhetoric and Militancy



Elevating Moderate Alternatives: The Moment of Reform



Contracting Time and Eclipsing Context



Broadcasting and Containment



Hegemony, Crisis, and Opposition



Media Routines and Political Crises



Seventies Going on Eighties


App.: Sources and Methods


Selected Bibliography


Index