What really happened to the 1960s
Subtitle: how mass media culture failed American democracy
By: Edward P. Morgan
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lawrence, Kan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 405
ISBN-13: 9780700617562
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The past as prologue : distorted history, declining democracy; title: Roots of the sixties : contradictions between capitalism and democracy in postwar America; title: An awakening democratic dialectic : from action to empowerment in the 1960s; title: Race, class, and gender : the boundaries of legitimate media discourse; title: Vietnam and the spheres of media discourse; title: Visual drama : the power of the image; title: System response : generational hype and political backlash; title: Media, militancy, and violence : the making of "bad sixties" icons; title: Domesticating the sixties : capitalism's cultural co-optation; title: Reconstructing the past, constructing the future : corporate backlash and the Reagan revolution; title: The "sixties" nostalgia market and the culture of self-satire; title: Cultural politics and warlike discourse; title: Media culture and the future of democracy.