It's Show Time!
Subtitle: Media, Politics, and Popular Culture (Politics, Media, and Popular Culture, Vol. 2)
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Published: March 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780820441351
Subjects: General; Civilization; Media Studies; History Of Civilization And Culture (General); Mass Communication Media And Society; Social Science; 1970-; Mass media; Mass media and culture; Political aspects; United States; Performing Arts/Dance; Sociology
Description: "It's Show Time! Media, Politics, and Popular Culture is a collection of original essays introducing undergraduate students and interested readers to the important role that the media and popular culture have in shaping their lives and views on politics. Written by both political scientists and journalists, this book looks at the diverse ways television, movies, the internet, and even soap operas mold public opinion and define how we view political reality.

However, as these essays will reveal, this socialization is not all benign. Instead, this book reveals a corporate media increasingly trapped by the demands to inform, entertain, and make a profit - often at times distorting reality by transforming criminals into heroes, assassination theories into fact, and participatory government into a spectator sport.

Overall, It's Show Time! explores the limits and possibilities of the media and emerging information technologies as they shape political perceptions and politics into the twenty-first century."--BOOK JACKET.