| Description |
viii, 260 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-256) and index. |
| Contents |
Of happiness and of despair we have no measure / Ernest van den Haag -- Theory of mass culture / Dwight MacDonald -- Mass culture in America : another point of view / David Manning White -- Some effects of mass media / C. Wright Mills -- New languages / Edmund Carpenter -- Media hot and cold / Marshall McLuhan -- Against McLuhan / Benjamin DeMott -- Stereotyping on television / T. W. Adorno -- In defense of television / Henry M. Pachter -- Television and the American character : a psychiatrist looks at television / Eugene David Glynn -- Nature of radio and television / Philip Abrams -- Roles of radio / Harold Mendelsohn -- Witness point in the film / Vernon Young -- Film generation / Stanley Kauffmann -- Road beyond neorealism / Federico Fellini -- TV western : debasement of a tradition / T. J. Ross -- Deception as a TV comedy tool / Glenn E. Reddick -- Comics : middle against both ends / Leslie A. Fiedler -- Science fiction films : the imagination of disaster / Susan Sontag -- One-eyed Jacks and psychodrama / Parker Tyler -- Jules and Jim / Pauline Kael -- Robert Rossen's The hustler / Alan Casty -- Variable influence of communication / Bernard Berelson -- Nature of news / Wilbur Schramm -- Social responsibility theory of the press / Theodore Peterson -- Pause, now, and consider some tentative conclusions about the meaning of this mass perversion called pornoviolence / Tom Wolfe -- Power of the press / T. S. Matthews -- Need for interpretive reporting / Elmer Davis -- Impact of TV on American politics / Emmet John Hughes -- Riot on TV / John Gregory Dunne -- Effects of radio / Paul Lazarsfeld -- Dark areas of ignorance / Martin Kreisberg -- China's strategy : a critique / Donald S. Zagoria -- Why we are fighting in Asia / Francis Vivian Drake -- Contaminated news of the Dominican Republic / Theodore Draper -- U.S. tries to bar pro-Reds from Dominican control / Tad Szulc -- Anarchy in Domingo / Paul Bethel -- Power, and the ticking of the clock : how did it happen? / Newsweek -- How Reds plotted a take-over / U.S. News & World Report -- Slanted coverage of Japanese-American news / Martin Grodzins -- Effects of the televised Army-McCarthy hearings / Gerhart D. Wiebe -- Labor in the radio news / Leila A. Sussmann. |
| Subject |
Mass media.
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Content analysis (Communication)
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Popular culture.
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| Added Author |
Casty, Alan.
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