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What really happened to the 1960s : how mass media culture failed American democracy
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What really happened to the 1960s : how mass media culture failed American democracy / Edward P. Morgan.
ISBN
9780700617562 (cloth : alk. paper)
0700617566 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2010.
Physical Description
1 online resource
Variant and related titles
Internet Archive collection.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 07, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The past as prologue : distorted history, 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.
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