Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture (Film and Culture)
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (900 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 023112953X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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He is the author of Projections of War: Hollywood, American Culture, and World War II; PreCode Hollywood: Sex, Immorality and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934; and Teenagers and Teenpics: The Juvenilization of American Movies in the 1950s, and is associate editor of the film journal Cinéaste.. Thomas Doherty is a professor in the American studies department and chair of the film studies program at Brandeis University
A Customer said Terrific. Cold War, Cool Medium is a terrific and compulsively readable study of McCarthyism in the context of the early history of television. Doherty astutely establishes the way televison worked in its formative days. Then he shows how its weaknesses aided i. Brilliant Analysis of Cold War Culture In his 2003 book, "Cold War, Cool Medium," author Thomas Doherty brings together all of the most interesting media stories of the early Cold War. From HUAC to The Defenders, it is all here and written in an extremely engaging and frequently amusing st. Deftly weaves a thread of McCarthyism through the fabric of early television This is an insightful and elegantly-written book about a period of time in American history where popular myth often trumps actual events. The author sets the record straight in a painstakingly-researched work, bolstered by expert prose which is extre
For the study of this awkward period in America's television culture, it is hard to imagine a better text for discussions with students. (Library Journal)Cold War, Cool Medium, by Thomas Doherty, ranks as one of the seminal books ever written about the history of television and politics in the USADoherty brilliantly challenges this conventional wisdom and indeed turns it upside down. this volume carefully examines the often-overlooked political side of 1950s television. Adams Film & History)Thomas Doherty's groundbreaking new volume, Cold War, Cool Medium, is a sweeping examination of the collision of television and McCarthyism, and one of the most searching looks at the intersection
Sheen on Life Is Worth Living; the anticommunist series I Led 3 Lives; the legendary jousts between Edward R. Conventional wisdom holds that television was a co-conspirator in the repressions of Cold War America, that it was a facilitator to the blacklist and handmaiden to McCarthyism. But Thomas Doherty argues that, through the influence of television, America actually became a more open and tolerant place. Although many books have been written about this period, Cold War, Cool Medium is the only one to examine it through the lens of television programming. Doherty not only details how the blacklist operated within the television industry but also how the shows themselves struggled to defy it, arguing that television was preprogrammed to reinforce the very freedoms that McCarthyism attempted to curtail.. By rerunning the programs, freezing the frames, and reading between the lines,