Research Catalog

Title

The media were American : U.S. mass media in decline / Jeremy Tunstall.

Author

Tunstall, Jeremy.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Details

Description

xiv, 465 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Subject

• Mass media > History > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Anglo-American, global, and Euro-American media versus media nationalism -- 2. Television soap operas, Telenovelas, Brazil -- 3. From B2B to bedroom and from the United States to the world -- 4. Freakish media finances benefit number one -- 5. Media moguls are national -- 6. Anglo-American world news, public relations, and unreported mass killings -- 7. U.S. world media peak around 1950 -- 8. Since 1950 : the United States looking superlative while losing world media market share -- 9. Decline : U.S. media, moral authority, "sole superpower" -- 10. The rise of big-population nations and their media -- 11. India's multi-ring media circus -- 12. China : capitalist-communist media stir-fry -- 13. World media pecking order -- 14. Europe and Euro-American media -- 15. Africa : bottom of the media pecking order -- 16. National media system as lead player -- 17. A separate Arab media bloc -- 18. Spanish-language media in Latin America -- 19. Twenty-one new media nations replace communist media empire -- 20. American media decline to continue?

ISBN

• 9780195181463 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0195181468 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780195181470 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0195181476 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006053274

OCLC

• ocm77520509
• 77520509
• SCSB-5325215

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries