It's Show Time!

By: David A. Schultz (Editor)

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New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien, XIV, Politics, Media, and Popular Culture. Vol. 2. General Editor: David A. Schultz. It's Show Time! Media, Politics, and Popular Culture is an exciting 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.

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Preface: Kenny Meets George Washington or, "Come on Down, Your 15 Minutes of Fame Are Now!"	p. xi
American as Baseball and Apple Pie	p. 1
The Cultural Contradictions of the American Media	p. 13
The Protest Paradigm and News Coverage of the "Right to Party" Movement	p. 29
Mass Media, Citizenship, and Democracy: Revitalizing Deliberation?	p. 51
Mirror, Mirror? The Politics of Television Science Fiction	p. 73
Political Cynicism and Its Contradictions in the Public, News, and Entertainment	p. 101
Criminals and Buffoons: The Portrayal of Elected Officials on Entertainment Television	p. 117
As Brave as Stallone, as Beautiful as Brooke Shields" POW Rathbun-Nealy and American Military Women in the Gulf War	p. 133
"Mr. Smith Tells Congress to Go to Hell": Celebrity and Performance in the Iran-Contra Affair	p. 151
Synthetic History and Subjective Reality: The Impact of Oliver Stone's Film, JFK	p. 171
C-SPAN: A Window on the Political Process	p. 197
Democracy's Rebirth or Demise? The Influence of the Internet on Political Attitudes	p. 209
The Incendiary Internet: Hate Speech and the Public Good	p. 229
Going Online: The Future of the News Media	p. 245
About the Authors	p. 265
Index	p. 271
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