Cultural politics in contemporary America - Angus, Ian H. (New York, NY Routledge, 1989)
Requiem for the American empire / Gore Vidal -- Imperial cannibal / Bill Livant -- American empire and global communication / Eileen Mahoney -- Power, hegemony, and communication theory / Leslie Good -- Political economy of culture / Sut Jhally -- Advertising and the development of consumer society / Stuart Ewen -- Circumscribing postmodern culture / Ian H. Angus -- In living color / Michael Omi -- Cultural conundrums and gender / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- Working class culture in the electronic age / Stanley Aronowitz -- Nature in industrial society / Neil Evernden -- Sexual politics / Ellen Willis -- Action-adventure as ideology / Gina Marchetti -- Vehicles for myth / Andrew Wernick -- Advertising as religion / Sut Jhally -- Importance of shredding in earnest / James Der Derian -- Television and democracy / Michael Morgan -- MTV / Lawrence Grossberg -- Decline of American intellectuals / Russell Jacoby -- Myth of the information society / William Leiss -- Limits to the imagination / Stephen Kline -- Privatization of culture / Herbert Schiller -- Media beyond representation / Ian H. Angus -- Postmodernism / Todd Gitlin.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-385) and index.
Keywords: Mass media -- United States; Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century