American Media And Mass Culture

Download American Media And Mass Culture full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online American Media And Mass Culture ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

American Media and Mass Culture

Author : Donald Lazere
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520044951
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (449 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis American Media and Mass Culture by : Donald Lazere

Download or read book American Media and Mass Culture written by Donald Lazere and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On subjects from Superman to rock 'n' roll, from Donald Duck to the TV news, from soap operas and romance novels to the use of double speak in advertising, these lively essays offer students of contemporary media a comprehensive counterstatement to the conservatism that has been ascendant since the seventies in American politics and cultural criticism. Donald Lazere brings together selections from nearly forty of the most prominent marxist, feminist, and other leftist critics of American mass culture--from a dozen academic disciplines and fields of media activism. The collection will appeal to a wide range of students, scholars, and general readers." -- Book Jacket.

The Republic of Mass Culture

Author : James L. Baughman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Republic of Mass Culture by : James L. Baughman

Download or read book The Republic of Mass Culture written by James L. Baughman and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his highly praised Republic of Mass Culture, James L. Baughman offers a lively analysis of the impact that the advent of television has had on America's media industries. He contends that because television had captured the largest share of the mass audience by the late 1950s, rival media were forced to target smaller, "sub-group" markets with novel content that ranged from rock 'n' roll for teenage radio listeners in the 1950s to the more sexually explicit films that began to appear in the 1960s. For this updated edition, Baughman includes in his discussion the effects of the new competitive realities of the 1990s on journalism, filmmaking, and broadcasting. The dominance of marketplace values, he argues, has further fragmented the mass audience, encouraged record-breaking mergers between media companies, and precipitated a steady and alarming decline in the quality of and public interest in journalism, a trend that may ultimately threaten American democracy.

The Republic of Mass Culture

Author : James L. Baughman
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801883156
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (831 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Republic of Mass Culture by : James L. Baughman

Download or read book The Republic of Mass Culture written by James L. Baughman and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carefully drawing on interdisciplinary communication research, The Republic of Mass Culture presents a lively analysis of the shifting objectives and challenges of the media industries.

Media, Popular Culture, and the American Century

Author : Kingsley Bolton
Publisher : JOHN LIBBEY PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 9780861966981
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (669 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Media, Popular Culture, and the American Century by : Kingsley Bolton

Download or read book Media, Popular Culture, and the American Century written by Kingsley Bolton and published by JOHN LIBBEY PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2010 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: Mediated America: Americana as Hollywoodiana / Jan Olsson, Kingsley Bolton -- Italian marionettes meet cinematic modernity / Jan Olsson -- "A red-blooded romance"; or Americanizing early multi-reel feature cinema: the case of The spoilers / Joel Frykholm -- Song of the sonic body: noise, the audience, and early American moving picture culture / Meredith C. Ward -- Constructing the global vernacular: American English and the media / Kingsley Bolton -- You only live once: repetitions of crime as desire in the films of Sylvia Sidney, 1930-1937 / Esther Sonnet -- Punks! Topicality and the 1950s gangster bio-pic cycle / Peter Stanfield -- Importing evil: the American gangster, Swedish cinema, and anti-American propaganda / Ann-Kristin Wallengren -- Sun Yu and the early Americanization of Chinese cinema / Corrado Neri -- If America were really China or how Christopher Columbus discovered Asia / Gregory Lee -- Civil rights on the screen / Michael Renov -- Goodbye rabbit ears: visualizing and mapping the U.S. Digital TV transition / Lisa Parks -- Archival transitions: some digital propositions / Pelle Snickars -- Are Americans human? / Evelyn Ch'ien -- Afterword: Rethinking the American century / William Uricchio.

Mass Culture

Author : B. Rosenberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780029270806
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (78 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Mass Culture by : B. Rosenberg

Download or read book Mass Culture written by B. Rosenberg and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pop Culture Wars

Author : William D. Romanowski
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1597525774
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (975 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Pop Culture Wars by : William D. Romanowski

Download or read book Pop Culture Wars written by William D. Romanowski and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2006-02-15 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entertainment has long been a source of controversy in American life. On the one hand, American popular culture is enormously desired, captivating audiences around the world. On the other hand, more and more critics blame it for the breakdown of morals and even civilizations itself. Surely Christians and other religious citizens have something to contribute to what is, after all, a discussion of morality. But too often their contributions have been ill-informed, unreflective and reactionary. In this groudbreaking book, William Romanowski brings something desperately needed to the discussion: an informed, systematic and challenging Christian perspective. Comprehensive and historically revealing, Pop Culture Wars bids to accomplish nothing less than to reframe and render more constructive a crucial but angry cultural debate.

Popular Culture and Political Change in Modern America

Author : Ronald Edsforth
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 143840185X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Popular Culture and Political Change in Modern America by : Ronald Edsforth

Download or read book Popular Culture and Political Change in Modern America written by Ronald Edsforth and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1991-10-25 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of essays dealing with the ways in which specific popular entertainment media, mass consumer products, and popular movements affect politics and political culture in the United States. It seeks to present a range of possibilities that reflect the dimensions of the current debate and practice in the field. Some of the contributions to this volume place popular culture media such as films, music, and books in a broad social context, and several articles deal with the historical roots of twentieth-century American popular culture. Popular culture is treated as categorically neither good nor bad, in either political or aesthetic terms. Instead, the essays reflect the editors' convictions that popular culture is simply too important to be ignored by those academics who treat politics and its history seriously. The collection also shows that studying popular or mass culture in a historical way illuminates a variety of possible relationships between popular culture and politics.

American Cultural History: A Very Short Introduction

Author : Eric Avila
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019020060X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis American Cultural History: A Very Short Introduction by : Eric Avila

Download or read book American Cultural History: A Very Short Introduction written by Eric Avila and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The iconic images of Uncle Sam and Marilyn Monroe, or the "fireside chats" of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the oratory of Martin Luther King, Jr.: these are the words, images, and sounds that populate American cultural history. From the Boston Tea Party to the Dodgers, from the blues to Andy Warhol, dime novels to Disneyland, the history of American culture tells us how previous generations of Americans have imagined themselves, their nation, and their relationship to the world and its peoples. This Very Short Introduction recounts the history of American culture and its creation by diverse social and ethnic groups. In doing so, it emphasizes the historic role of culture in relation to broader social, political, and economic developments. Across the lines of race, class, gender, and sexuality, as well as language, region, and religion, diverse Americans have forged a national culture with a global reach, inventing stories that have shaped a national identity and an American way of life. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

American Media and Mass Culture

Author : Donald Lazere
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520044968
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (449 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis American Media and Mass Culture by : Donald Lazere

Download or read book American Media and Mass Culture written by Donald Lazere and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1987-12-07 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On subjects from Superman to rock 'n' roll, from Donald Duck to the TV news, from soap operas and romance novels to the use of double speak in advertising, these lively essays offer students of contemporary media a comprehensive counterstatement to the conservatism that has been ascendant since the seventies in American politics and cultural criticism. Donald Lazere brings together selections from nearly forty of the most prominent Marxist, feminist, and other leftist critics of American mass culture-from a dozen academic disciplines and fields of media activism. The collection will appeal to a wide range of students, scholars, and general readers.

Television and American Culture

Author : Jason Mittell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Television and American Culture by : Jason Mittell

Download or read book Television and American Culture written by Jason Mittell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Television and American Culture: An Overview introduces students to the study of television by looking at American television from a cultural perspective. The book is written for intermediate undergraduate and beginning graduate students for a range of television studies courses. Specifically, Mittell discusses television within the following contexts: the economics of the television industry, television's role within American democracy, the formal attributes of a variety of television genres, television as a site of gender and racial identity formation, television's role in everyday life, and the medium's technological and social impacts. The topical arrangement and comprehensive scope of the book differs from other television textbooks, arguing that we must incorporate a range of economic, political, aesthetic, and sociological perspectives to fully comprehend the medium of television.

With Amusement for All

Author : LeRoy Ashby
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813123976
Total Pages : 713 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis With Amusement for All by : LeRoy Ashby

Download or read book With Amusement for All written by LeRoy Ashby and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2006-05-12 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Amusement for All contextualizes what Americans have done for fun since 1830, showing the reciprocal nature of the relationships among social, political, economic, and cultural forces and the ways in which the entertainment world has reflected, changed, or reinforced the values of American society.

Media & Culture

Author : Richard Campbell
Publisher : Bedford Books
ISBN 13 : 9780312390709
Total Pages : 613 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Media & Culture by : Richard Campbell

Download or read book Media & Culture written by Richard Campbell and published by Bedford Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rev. ed. of: Media and culture. 2nd ed. c2000. Includes bibliographical references (p. 575-582) and index.

American Mass Media and Popular Culture

Author : Qingwen Dong
Publisher : University Readers
ISBN 13 : 9781935551751
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (517 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis American Mass Media and Popular Culture by : Qingwen Dong

Download or read book American Mass Media and Popular Culture written by Qingwen Dong and published by University Readers. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Mass Media and Popular Culture addresses the impact mass media have on American popular culture, and exposes the reader to a range of voices and perspectives on media issues and effects. The anthology helps students examine popular culture from both critical and empirical perspectives. In particular, students explore the persuasive effects of various new media. The 26 essays are organized into three parts. The first part of the text provides guiding principles, theories and perspectives that can be used to examine the power of American mass media. The second section covers topics in popular culture such as romance, love, and sex, and examines how the socialization effects of television shape viewers' attitudes, values, and ideals towards these topics. The third part of the book focuses on new media and their impacts, which range from teen emancipation to romantic communication through social media such as MySpace and Facebook. American Mass Media and Popular Culture effectively supplements main texts in mass media and mass communication courses. The material empowers readers to become more than passive users and consumers of mass media, and helps them gain true awareness of how they as individuals, and society as a whole, are influenced by these important social forces.

Media and Society

Author : John Ryan
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Media and Society by : John Ryan

Download or read book Media and Society written by John Ryan and published by Allyn & Bacon. This book was released on 1999 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this large-scale, postindustrial society, the mass media has become deeply embedded into the lifestyles of everyday citizens. People are lured by television ratings, celebrity-sponsored products, and high-profile crimes and scandals, all finding their way into living rooms across America by satellites, cable wires, and modems. This book examines the real, imagined, and potential effects of the mass media on individuals and society. The book explores the processes through which the mass media is enabled and constrained by such factors as technology, law, industry structure, and occupational careers, accounting for the vast changes that have developed in recent years. This book is divided into two parts. Part I defines mass communication and locates its role in social life. Part II considers the factors which influence media content, providing insight into how the industry operates. Sociologists, Communication and Mass Media specialists, film, music, and pop culture critics, and enthusiasts of these fields.

Disconnected America: The Future of Mass Media in a Narcissistic Society

Author : Ed Shane
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317473035
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Disconnected America: The Future of Mass Media in a Narcissistic Society by : Ed Shane

Download or read book Disconnected America: The Future of Mass Media in a Narcissistic Society written by Ed Shane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ed Shane here traces a change in the American pervasive mass media that once disseminated information quickly and stimulated mass cultural response, to a de-massified individual media that incubate a new electronic narcissicism, producing an inwardly-focused society.

Everything Was Better in America

Author : David Welky
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252092813
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Everything Was Better in America by : David Welky

Download or read book Everything Was Better in America written by David Welky and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a counterpart to research on the 1930s that has focused on liberal and radical writers calling for social revolution, David Welky offers this eloquent study of how mainstream print culture shaped and disseminated a message affirming conservative middle-class values and assuring its readers that holding to these values would get them through hard times. Through analysis of the era's most popular newspaper stories, magazines, and books, Welky examines how voices both outside and within the media debated the purposes of literature and the meaning of cultural literacy in a mass democracy. He presents lively discussions of such topics as the newspaper treatment of the Lindbergh kidnapping, issues of race in coverage of the 1936 Olympic games, domestic dynamics and gender politics in cartoons and magazines, Superman's evolution from a radical outsider to a spokesman for the people, and the popular consumption of such novels as the Ellery Queen mysteries, Gone with the Wind, and The Good Earth. Through these close readings, Welky uncovers the subtle relationship between the messages that mainstream media strategically crafted and those that their target audience wished to hear.

Radio's America

Author : Bruce Lenthall
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226471934
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Radio's America by : Bruce Lenthall

Download or read book Radio's America written by Bruce Lenthall and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orson Welles’s greatest breakthrough into the popular consciousness occurred in 1938, three years before Citizen Kane, when his War of the Worlds radio broadcast succeeded so spectacularly that terrified listeners believed they were hearing a genuine report of an alien invasion—a landmark in the history of radio’s powerful relationship with its audience. In Radio’s America, Bruce Lenthall documents the enormous impact radio had on the lives of Depression-era Americans and charts the formative years of our modern mass culture. Many Americans became alienated from their government and economy in the twentieth century, and Lenthall explains that radio’s appeal came from its capability to personalize an increasingly impersonal public arena. His depictions of such figures as proto-Fascist Charles Coughlin and medical quack John Brinkley offer penetrating insight into radio’s use as a persuasive tool, and Lenthall’s book is unique in its exploration of how ordinary Americans made radio a part of their lives. Television inherited radio’s cultural role, and as the voting tallies for American Idol attest, broadcasting continues to occupy a powerfully intimate place in American life. Radio’s America reveals how the connections between power and mass media began.