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The Revolution Wasn't Televised: Sixties Television and Social Conflict

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Caricatures of sixties television--called a vast wasteland by the FCC president in the early sixties--continue to dominate our perceptions of the era and cloud popular understanding of the relationship between pop culture and larger social forces. Opposed to these conceptions,
The Revolution Wasn't Televised
explores the ways in which prime-time television was centrally involved in the social conflicts of the 1960s. It was then that television became a ubiquitous element in American homes. The contributors in this volume argue that due to TV's constant presence in everyday life, it became the object of intense debates over childraising, education, racism, gender, technology, politics, violence, and Vietnam. These essays explore the minutia of TV in relation to the macro-structure of sixties politics and society, attempting to understand the struggles that took place over representation the nation's most popular communications media during the 1960s.

Language: English

Pages: 368

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Routledge

Release: April 04, 1997

ISBN: 0415911222

ISBN 13: 9780415911221

The Revolution Wasn't Televised: Sixties Television and Social Conflict

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Caricatures of sixties television--called a vast wasteland by the FCC president in the early sixties--continue to dominate our perceptions of the era and cloud popular understanding of the relationship between pop culture and larger social forces. Opposed to these conceptions,
The Revolution Wasn't Televised
explores the ways in which prime-time television was centrally involved in the social conflicts of the 1960s. It was then that television became a ubiquitous element in American homes. The contributors in this volume argue that due to TV's constant presence in everyday life, it became the object of intense debates over childraising, education, racism, gender, technology, politics, violence, and Vietnam. These essays explore the minutia of TV in relation to the macro-structure of sixties politics and society, attempting to understand the struggles that took place over representation the nation's most popular communications media during the 1960s.

Language: English

Pages: 368

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Routledge

Release: April 04, 1997

ISBN: 0415911222

ISBN 13: 9780415911221

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