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The citizen machine: governing by television in 1950s America

By McCarthy , Anna

Book information

Publisher
The, New Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9781595585967, 1595585966
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (3681892 bytes)
Pages
(xv, 334 pages) : illustrations\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

The Citizen Machine is the untold political history of television s formative era. Historian Anna McCarthy goes behind the scenes of early television programming, revealing that long before the age of PBS, leaders from business, philanthropy, and social reform movements as well as public intellectuals were all obsessively concerned with TV s potential to mold the right kind of citizen. Based on years of path-breaking archival work, The Citizen Machine sheds new light on the place of television in the postwar American political landscape.;Introduction : television and political culture after World War II -- Sponsors and citizens -- The politics of wooden acting -- The ends of the middlebrow -- Liberal media -- Labor goes public -- Epilogue.

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