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Cold War, Cool Medium : Television, Mccarthyism, and American Culture
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Cold War, Cool Medium : Television, Mccarthyism, and American Culture Hardcover - 2003

by Doherty, Thomas

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Conventional wisdom holds that television was coconspirator in the repressions of Cold War America, but Doherty argues that it was through television that America actually became a more open and tolerant place.

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  • Title Cold War, Cool Medium : Television, Mccarthyism, and American Culture
  • Author Doherty, Thomas
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Printing
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Columbia University Press, New York
  • Date 2003-10-22
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 352393-6
  • ISBN 9780231129527 / 0231129521
  • Weight 1.23 lbs (0.56 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.24 x 6.32 x 0.95 in (23.47 x 16.05 x 2.41 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1950-1999
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Politics and government -, United States - Social life and customs -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003051501
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.456

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Citations

  • Choice, 03/01/2004, Page 1290
  • Library Journal, 09/01/2003, Page 184
  • Publishers Weekly, 07/28/2003, Page 85

About the author

Thomas Doherty is a professor in the American studies department and chair of the film studies program at Brandeis University. 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 Cinaste.

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