Watching America
- ISBN-10
- 0130268240
- ISBN-13
- 9780130268242
- Category
- Performing Arts / Television / General
- Pages
- 322
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1991
- Publisher
- Prentice Hall
- Authors
- S. Robert Lichter, Stanley Rothman, Linda S. Lichter
Description
Examines how social issues have been presented in television programs from the 1950s to the present
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