The citizen machine : governing by television in 1950s America / Anna McCarthy.

Author/Creator:

McCarthy, Anna, 1967-

Publication:

New York : New Press, 2010.

Format/Description:

Book
xv, 334 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subjects:

Television and politics -- United States.
Television broadcasting -- Social aspects -- United States.
Television broadcasting -- Philosophy.
Political culture -- United States.
Advocacy advertising -- United States.
Television advertising -- United States.
Television viewers -- United States -- Attitudes.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781595584984 (hc. : alk. paper)
1595584986 (hc. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

435419373

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