A professor of journalism, cultural studies, and sociology explores how individuals contend with the onslaught of advertising and media messages attacking from all sides. With constant information streaming through American culture, via radio, movies, newspapers, magazines, Muzak, billboards, Websites, and video games, Todd Gitlin illuminates the ...
With verve and brilliance, Gitlin vividly brings to life the years when an entire generation revelled in its power to shape history and society, as the New Left emerged from the disaffection of the '50s to take a powerful stand in the activism and violent upheavals of the '60s. Completely updated.
In this collection of related essays, historian Todd Gitlin, known for his work on the 1960s, says that the intellectual Left in America has surrendered too much ground to conservatives. Here he writes about how they can recapture the debate--in his view, by taking the high ground and eschewing anti-Bush rhetoric, which he sees as unhelpful. ...
In a classic indictment of American individualism and isolationism, Philip Slater analyzes the great ills of modern society--violence, competitiveness, inequality, and the national "addiction" to technology.
With verve and brilliance, The Sixties traces the rise of the youth movement and its political core--the New Left--from the disaffection of the '50s to the activism of the early '60s and the violent upheavals in the last years of the decade.
In the spirit of '60s activism, one of our era's most influential advocates of social and political change teaches protesters and dissenters how it was done, and how to keep doing it today. "Be original. See what happens." So Todd Gitlin advises the young mind burning to take action to right the wrongs of the world but also looking for bearings, ...
While other writers contemplated the events of the 1968 Chicago riots from the safety of their hotel rooms, John Schultz was in the city streets, being threatened by police, choking on tear gas, and listening to all the rage, fear, and confusion around him. The result, "No One Was Killed", is his account of the contradictions and chaos of ...
"This book, by one of America's most intelligent and decent political writers, tells liberals how the conservative movement rose and fell, and how they could emulate its successes while avoiding its failures." --George Packer, author of Blood of the Liberals and The Assassins' Gate "No one is better than Todd Gitlin at describing the crucial ...
An examination of the effects of conglomerate ownership of the main organs of communications--the press, television and radio stations, publishing houses--by a leading group of media critics and insiders. Essays by journalists and analysts such as Erik Barnouw, Mark Crispin Miller, Todd Gitlin, and Gene Roberts consider the state of the ...
Teenagers of the 1960s were not isolated from the political and social turmoil of their day. The civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, and the antiauthoritarian spirit so pervasive on college campuses also infiltrated American public high schools. Challenging their relegation to the world of children, students demanded the right to express their ...
Mills refleja los problemas tericos, prcticos y morales de las ciencias sociales y de las escuelas de sociologa estadounidenses, que al mismo tiempo resulta una nueva formulacin y una defensa del anlisis sociolgico clsico que da orientacin cultural a nuestros estudios humanos.
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