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The republic of mass culture : journalism, filmmaking, and broadcasting in America since 1941 / James L. Baughman.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The American momentPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1992.Description: xvii, 257 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 080184276X (alk. paper)
  • 9780801842764 (alk. paper)
  • 0801842778 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780801842771 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • P92.U5 B345 1992
Contents:
1. The Voluntary Propagandists -- 2. Americans and Their Mass Media in 1945 -- 3. Test Patterns: Television Comes to America, 1945-1955 -- 4. The War for Attention: Responding to Television, 1947-1958 -- 5. Evenings of Avoidance: Television in the 1960s -- 6. Competing for the Marginal: Television's Rivals, 1958-1970 -- 7. Network Television Triumphant, 1970-1981 -- 8. The Babel Builders: Television's Rivals, 1970-1990 -- 9. The Shrinking Mass: Television and Mass Culture in the 1980s.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks P92.U5B345 1992 1 Available 33710001058499

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The Voluntary Propagandists -- 2. Americans and Their Mass Media in 1945 -- 3. Test Patterns: Television Comes to America, 1945-1955 -- 4. The War for Attention: Responding to Television, 1947-1958 -- 5. Evenings of Avoidance: Television in the 1960s -- 6. Competing for the Marginal: Television's Rivals, 1958-1970 -- 7. Network Television Triumphant, 1970-1981 -- 8. The Babel Builders: Television's Rivals, 1970-1990 -- 9. The Shrinking Mass: Television and Mass Culture in the 1980s.