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Equal Time: Television and the Civil Rights Movement
Aniko Bodroghkozy
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Description for Equal Time: Television and the Civil Rights Movement
Hardback. Details the televising of the revolution in American civil rights Series: The History of Communication. Num Pages: 280 pages, 38 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFD; JFF; JPWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 243 x 17. Weight in Grams: 620.
Equal Time: Television and the Civil Rights Movement explores the crucial role of network television in reconfiguring new attitudes in race relations during the civil rights movement. Due to widespread coverage, the civil rights revolution quickly became the United States' first televised major domestic news story. This important medium unmistakably influenced the ongoing movement for African American empowerment, desegregation, and equality. Aniko Bodroghkozy brings to the foreground network news treatment of now-famous civil rights events including the 1965 Selma voting rights campaign, integration riots at the University of Mississippi, and the March on Washington, including Martin Luther King's "I Have a ... Read more
Equal Time: Television and the Civil Rights Movement explores the crucial role of network television in reconfiguring new attitudes in race relations during the civil rights movement. Due to widespread coverage, the civil rights revolution quickly became the United States' first televised major domestic news story. This important medium unmistakably influenced the ongoing movement for African American empowerment, desegregation, and equality. Aniko Bodroghkozy brings to the foreground network news treatment of now-famous civil rights events including the 1965 Selma voting rights campaign, integration riots at the University of Mississippi, and the March on Washington, including Martin Luther King's "I Have a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Series
The History of Communication
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252036682
SKU
V9780252036682
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About Aniko Bodroghkozy
Aniko Bodroghkozy is an associate professor of media studies at the University of Virginia and the author of Groove Tube: Sixties Television and the Youth Rebellion.
Reviews for Equal Time: Television and the Civil Rights Movement
"Acute insight into the complex interaction between social change and television programming during the 1960s."
American Journalism "Equal Time goes beyond news coverage and explores the portrayal of black and white characters in television dramas and comedies. . . . A readable and enjoyable book."
The Ottawa Citizen "Thoughtful, provocative, and well-researched. . . . This is an important book."
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American Journalism "Equal Time goes beyond news coverage and explores the portrayal of black and white characters in television dramas and comedies. . . . A readable and enjoyable book."
The Ottawa Citizen "Thoughtful, provocative, and well-researched. . . . This is an important book."
Journalism ... Read more