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.
Author(s): Janice Peck; Inger L. Stole
Series: Diederich Studies in Media and Communication 2
Publisher: Marquette University Press
Year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 410
City: Milwaukee
Contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Introduction: Moments of Danger and Challenges to the “Selective Tradition” in U.S. Communication History, by Janice Peck
Chapter 2 Politics as Patriotism: Advertising & Consumer Activism during World War II, by Inger L. Stole
Chapter 3 The Revolt against Radio: Postwar Media Criticism & the Struggle for Broadcast Reform, by Victor Pickard
Chapter 4 “Our Union Is Not For Sale”: The Postwar Struggle for Workplace Control in the American Newspaper Industry, by James F. Tracy
Chapter 5 “Things Will Never Be the Same Around Here”: How See It Now Shaped Television News Reporting, by Dinah Zeiger
Chapter 6 “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale”: Lessons of the Broadcast Blacklist, by Carol A. Stabile
Chapter 7 Foreign Correspondents, Passports, and McCarthyism, by Edward Alwood
Chapter 8 “Love that AFL-CIO”: Organized Labor’s Use of Television, 1950-1970, by Nathan Godfried
Chapter 9 The Postwar “TV Problem” and the Formation of U.S. Public Television, by Laurie Ouellette
Chapter 10 Lockouts, Protests, and Scabs: A Critical Assessment of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner Strike, by Bonnie Brennen
Chapter 11 The Reporters’ Rebellion: The Chicago Journalism Review 1968-1975, by Steve Macek
Chapter 12 Oprah Winfrey and the Politics of Race in Late Twentieth Century America, by Janice Peck
Chapter 13 Public Radio, This American Life, and the Neoliberal Turn, by Jason Loviglio
Chapter 14 “Sticking it to the man”: Neoliberalism: Corporate Media & Strategies of Resistance in the 21st Century, by Deepa Kumar
Chapter 15 Contesting Democratic Communications: The Case of Current TV, by James F. Hamilton
Chapter 16 Critical Media Literacy: Critiquing Corporate Media with Radical Production, by Bettina Fabos
About the Authors
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