American Protestants and TV in the 1950s

Responses to a New Medium
2007. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4039-6573-8
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 179 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 331 g

Reihe: Religion/Culture/Critique

Americans in the 1950s faced the challenge of negotiating the new medium's place in the home and in American culture in general. Using the American Protestant experience of the introduction of television, Rosenthal illustrates the importance of the interplay between a new medium and its users.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rosenthal, M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

American Protestantism and the Television: Toward a Dialogical Approach to Media, Religion, and Culture "Turn It Off!:" The Liberal Protestant Critique of Television Mainline Religious Broadcasting: A Failure? Television and the Construction of Evangelical Identity "The Age of Space Requires Space Age Teaching Tools:" Technology on Evangelical Terms Epilogue: Protestants in the Age of Electronic Media

Über Autor(innen)

MICHELE ROSENTHAL is Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Haifa, Israel.