
By Kathryn C. Montgomery
ISBN-10: 0195049640
ISBN-13: 9780195049640
ISBN-10: 0195063201
ISBN-13: 9780195063202
ISBN-10: 0198021658
ISBN-13: 9780198021650
Providing the 1st book-length exploration of community television's relatives with advocacy teams, Kathryn C. Montgomery provides a finished photograph of the impression of equipped strain on prime-time television. She vividly describes, for instance, how the Catholic Church campaigned opposed to Maude's abortion at the television exhibit, Maude; how outraged actors mobilized a countrywide protest opposed to the portrayal of blacks within the television miniseries, Beulah Land; and the way the ethical Majority waged a worldly crusade to "clean up TV," via threatening to boycott advertisers. Exposing the interior workings of community tv as no different ebook has performed, Montgomery's examine demonstrates how behind-the-scenes struggles have formed the photographs, messages, and values that input people's houses each evening. The e-book additionally increases serious questions on television's function in our society and its accountability to the yank public.