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

Author/creator Morgan, Edward P., 1945-
Format Book
Publication InfoLawrence : University Press of Kansas, ©2010.
Descriptionxiii, 405 pages, 26 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Social movements--United States. --History. --20th century.
Counterculture--United States. --History. --20th century.
Democracy--United States. --History. --20th century.
Politics and culture--United States. --History. --20th century.
Mass media--Political aspects. --United States.
Social movements--United States. --Public opinion.
Counterculture--United States. --Public opinion.
Hippies--United States. --Public opinion.
Public opinion--United States.
United States--Social conditions. --1960-1980.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010027342
ISBN9780700617562 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0700617566 (cloth : alk. paper)

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