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What really happened to the 1960s : how mass media culture failed American democracy / Edward P. Morgan

Author
Morgan, Edward P., 1945-
Published
Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, [2010]
Copyright Date
©2010
Physical Description
xiii, 405 pages, 26 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents
The past as prologue : distorted history, declining democracy -- Roots of the sixties : contradictions between capitalism and democracy in postwar America -- An awakening democratic dialectic : from action to empowerment in the 1960s -- Race, class, and gender : the boundaries of legitimate media discourse -- Vietnam and the spheres of media discourse -- Visual drama : the power of the image -- System response : generational hype and political backlash -- Media, militancy, and violence : the making of "bad sixties" icons -- Domesticating the sixties : capitalism's cultural co-optation -- Reconstructing the past, constructing the future : corporate backlash and the Reagan revolution -- The "sixties" nostalgia market and the culture of self-satire -- Cultural politics and warlike discourse -- Media culture and the future of democracy.
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ISBN
9780700618224
9780700617562 (cloth : alk. paper)
0700617566 (cloth : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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