Table of Contents:
1. The Past as Prologue: Distorted
History – Declining Democracy
2.
Roots of the Sixties: Contradictions
between Capitalism and Democracy in Postwar America
3. An Awakening Democratic Dialectic:
From Action to Empowerment in the 1960s
4. Race, Class, and Gender: The
Boundaries of Legitimate Media Discourse
5.
Vietnam and the Spheres of Media
Discourse
6. Visual Drama: The Power of the Image
7. System Response: Generational Hype
and Political Backlash
8. Media, Militancy, and Violence: The
Making of the “Bad Sixties”
9. Domesticating the Sixties:
Capitalism’s Cultural Co-optation
10. Reconstructing the Past,
Constructing the Future: Corporate Backlash and the Reagan
Revolution
Revolution
11. The “Sixties” Nostalgia Market and
the Culture of Self-Satire
12. Cultural Politics and Warlike
Discourse
13.
Media Culture and the Future of
Democracy
Reviewer Comments:
“Morgan contends that understanding
how corporate media helped and hindered the democratic movements of the Sixties
will help today’s grassroots movements. He does an excellent job of developing
that understanding…. He presents delightfully vivid discussions of iconic and
not-so-iconic events and people.”
—Counterpunch
“The reality of the Sixties has long
since been supplanted by ‘the Sixties’ –a propaganda fantasy of Our Great
Nation somehow forced into ‘decline’ by a fringe network of hippies and Black
Panthers. This gross distortion of the past has led us to misunderstand the
present, and –far worse—impairs our vision of a better future. We therefore
need to know how such a toxic myth became ‘our’ memory of the Sixties. There is
no better way to grasp that transformation than to read this rich, meticulous,
groundbreaking book.”
—Mark Crispin Miller, author of Boxed
In: The Culture of TV
“Morgan’s highly impressive and
important book provides an extremely comprehensive and penetrating analysis of
the events and aftermath of the 1960s.”
—Douglas Kellner, author of Media
Spectacle and the Crisis of Democracy and Media Culture
“Morgan demonstrates that the
mainstream media has consistently stressed the sensational and violent aspects
of the 1960s while downplaying two of the decade’s most important components: a
sense of hope that society could be changed and the sense that the basic
social, economic, and political structures of American society were at the
heart of our problems…. Sophisticated, provocative, and convincing.”
—Robert Justin Goldstein,
author of Political Repression in
Modern America and Flag Burning and Free Speech
“Morgan has produced a case study of the past that teaches
us a great deal about contemporary political discourse. He shows how the
mainstream mass media, in its norms and practices, simultaneously promotes—but
also limits and contains—democratic engagement.”
—William A. Gamson,
author of The Strategy of Social Protest
“A valuable exploration for anyone
interested in how the workings of mass media and popular culture in America
since the 1960s led us to where we are today.”
—Timothy W. Luke, author of
Screens of Power: Ideology, Resistance, and Domination in Informational Society
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