What Really Happened to The 1960s How Mass Media Culture Failed American Democracy

Name: What Really Happened to The 1960s How Mass Media Culture Failed American Democracy
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ISBN: 9780700618224

ISBN-10: 0700618228

ISBN-13: 9780700618224

Edition: 2010

Authors: Edward P. Morgan

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This title takes a provocative look at the mass media's connection with the turbulent years of the 1960s, which simultaneously seeks to explain what happened in the 1960s and what happened to how we remember it.

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List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Publication date: 11/18/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 422
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Preface



The Past as Prologue: Distorted History ï¿½ Declining Democracy



Roots of the Sixties: Contradictions between Capitalism and Democracy in Postwar America



An Awakening Democratic Dialectic: From Action to Empowerment in the 1960s



Race, Class, and Gender: The Boundaries of Legitimate Media Discourse



Vietnam and the Spheres of Media Discourse



Visual Drama: The Power of the Image



System Response: Generational Hype and Political Backlash



Media, Militancy, and Violence: The Making of "Bad Sixties" Icons



Domesticating the Sixties: Capitalism's Cultural Co-optation



Reconstructing the Past, Constructing the Future: Corporate Backlash and the Reagan Revolution



The "Sixties" Nostalgia Market and the Culture of Self-Satire



Cultural Politics and Warlike Discourse



Media Culture and the Future of Democracy


Notes


Index