...Stephen Vlastos Copyright © September, 1986 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1986 HISTORY THE MEDIA Television Wars: Representations...

...David Marc The following, with a bit of editing, is a talk I gave at the American Studies Association convention in a session entitled “New York Naked: The City and Commercial Culture.” My subject, the portrayal of New York City on television sitcoms, intersects with two other important themes...

..., produced by commercial, non-governmental agencies, is the equivalent of cultural democracy. In the case of television espe- cially, the viewing of spectacles has come to be equated with social and political participation. For historians, Wolpefs arguments, and indeed the existence of the mass...

...Thomas Riegler The article explores the general theme of historization in regard to the visual representation of 9/11 in U.S. popular culture. The main thesis is that Hollywood and U.S. television were the foremost cultural apparatuses for coping with 9/11—an event that had effectively shattered...

...Allison Perlman Abstract This article investigates the history of the International Television Federation, or Intertel. A collaboration between telecasters from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, Intertel throughout the 1960s produced and distributed public affairs...

... infrastructure must be in the hands of the people. With regard to the kinds of media platforms that can be best used to advance social justice, the interviewees note that digital media is tremendously important, but other preexisting media platforms, such as low-power FM radio and community access TV, are still...

...Sonia Baelo-Allué The 9/11 terrorist attack on the United States has become one of the most represented disasters in history since it produced an unprecedented visual impact on those around the world who watched the second plane crash into the South Tower live on television. In an atmosphere...

... Latin America and North Africa. 5. A number of Iranian television programs, magazines, and Web sites in the diaspora have invested in the mission of “saving Iran” from the Muslim fundamentalists, often using gender signifiers as a site of distinction between the “oppressed Iran...

... it as a profitable commodity for a public au- dience, however, is a relatively recent phenomenon-a product of nineteenthcentury industrial capitalism. Today, the means of produc- ing historical illusion are not limited to giant paintings. Theatrical mo- tion pictures and television carry...

... coverage corresponds with a growing presence of black players in the NFL and expresses the racial politics of an emerging neoliberal order. © 2016 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2016 US football television race neoliberalism gambling REFLECTIONS Race, Economics...

... to this moment, who was involved, or how they produced the television segments. Pablo Larraín’s succinctly titled filmNo , winner of the Art Cinema Award at Cannes in 2012 and nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2013, recalls the dramatic events that unfolded when...

... learned their place from) the mid- century explosion of the nuclear family as content and target of that new mass technology, television.ll As historians and critics like Lynn Spigel, Jane Feuer, and Ella Taylor have argued, TV was from the first a fundamentally domestic medium, a ”familial...

... and news poverty across diverse regions in the global South. At a bare minimum, UNESCO officials suggested that for every hundred citizens, each nation should have ten copies of daily newspapers, five radio receivers, two seats in a cinema, and two television receivers. This was altogether a low bar...

... that any pleasure might be derived from 9/11 an obscene suggestion. If people lost loved ones or colleagues in the disaster, they almost certainly have no place for such a reaction. But for those who witnessed the attacks from a distance, via a television screen, the feelings of dread and sadness...

... "recreation" of the Grand Federal Parade of 3787? In what ways does its accuracy or inaccuracy matter? Davis suggests answers to these questions by offering both a detailed review of the parade and its coverage and more general theoretical reflections on the historical "spectacle" as a television...

..., including women’s magazines, film, television, romance fiction, and advertising. This article outlines several of the significant questions we addressed, my pedagogical approach to teaching popular culture, and some tentative conclusions about the course. I alternate writing this piece with grad...

... for Herman Gray, Watching Race: Television and the Struggle "Blackness. " Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995. $22.95 Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White. New York: Routledge, 1995. $16.95 (paper); $25.00 (cloth). Gail Bederman, Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural...

... technology, the lifting of an embargo on video technology to make way for the establishment of a national television service in 1976, and the introduction of film and television studies courses at some universities during the mid- 1970~~One should add to this the development of a local film...

... of Karbala is enacted) in cinema and television. These arenas include the Iran-Iraq war films in cinema verité style, processions of ashura (the street festival during the month of Muharram), and neighborhood organizations (moludis and hayats) formed around the themes of Karbala. Cinema, particularly...

..., Black Looks: Race and Representation (1992). J. Fred MacDonald, Blacks and White TV: Afro-Americans in Television Since 1948 (1983). Coursepack-available at Michigan Documents Services. (Appropriate articles from the coursepack are listed below under ”assigned readings...