The Revolution Wasn't Televised: Sixties Television and Social Conflict

by Lynn Spigel and Michael Curtin

Book Overview

Caricatures of sixties television--called a "vast wasteland" by the FCC president in the early sixties--continue to dominate our perceptions of the era and cloud popular understanding of the relationship between pop culture and larger social forces. Opposed to these conceptions, The Revolution Wasn't Televised explores the ways in which prime-time television was centrally involved in the social conflicts of the 1960s...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415911222
• ISBN13: 9780415911221
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"