Cultural Politics in Contemporary America
- ISBN-10
- 0415900093
- ISBN-13
- 9780415900096
- Category
- Psychology / Social Psychology
- Pages
- 388
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1989
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Authors
- Sut Jhally, Ian H. Angus
Description
The media, American culture and political power are bound together in an association in which the stakes increase daily. This book is a radical attempt to lay out the complex ways in which the American media and American culture are powerfully interlocked.
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