Cold War, cool medium: television, McCarthyism, and American culture

"Conventional wisdom holds that television was a coconspirator in the repressions of Cold War America, that it was a facilitator to the blacklist and handmaiden to McCarthyism. But Thomas Doherty argues that, through the influence of television, America actually became a more open and tolerant...

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1. Verfasser: Doherty, Thomas Patrick 1952- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Columbia Univ. Press 2003
Schriftenreihe:Film and culture
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Zusammenfassung:"Conventional wisdom holds that television was a coconspirator in the repressions of Cold War America, that it was a facilitator to the blacklist and handmaiden to McCarthyism. But Thomas Doherty argues that, through the influence of television, America actually became a more open and tolerant place. Although many books have been written about this period, Cold War, Cool Medium is the only one to examine it through the lens of television programming."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:IX, 305 S. Ill.
ISBN:0231129521
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