Citizen Machine
Governing the Television in 1950s America
Will be published approx. on 26. August 2010
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-1-59558-498-4 (ISBN)
Description
The Citizen Machine is the untold political history of television's formative era. Historian Anna McCarthy goes behind the scenes of early television programming, revealing that long before the age of PBS, leaders from business, philanthropy, and social reform movements as well as public intellectuals were all obsessively concerned with TV's potential to mold the right kind of citizen. Based on years of path-breaking archival work, The Citizen Machine sheds new light on the place of television in the postwar American political landscape.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
640 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59558-498-4 (9781595584984)
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07/2010
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Person
Anna McCarthy is an associate professor in the department of Cinema Studies at New York University. She is the co-editor of the noted journal Social Text, as well as the author of Ambient Television.