Culture, Inc. : The Corporate Takeover of Public Expression

by Herbert I. Schiller

• ISBN13: 9780195067835
• ISBN10: 0195067835
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-05-23
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Summary

Most Americans take for granted that they live in an open society with afree market of ideas. But as Herbert Schiller reveals in Culture, Inc., thecorporate arm has reached into every corner of daily life, and from the shoppingmall to the art gallery, big-business influence has brought about somefrightening changes in American culture. Examining the effects of fifty yearsworth of corporate growth on American culture, Schiller argues that corporatecontrol over such arenas of culture as museums, theaters, performing artscenters, and public broadcasting stations has resulted in a broad manipulationof consciousness as well as an insidious form of censorship. A disturbing butenlightening picture of corporate America, Culture, Inc. exposes the agenda andmethods of the corporate cultural takeover, reveals the growing threat to freeaccess to information at home and abroad, shows how independent channels ofexpression have been greatly restricted, and explains how the few keep managingto benefit from the many.

Author Biography

About the Author:
Herbert I. Schiller is Professor of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of a number of books including Information and the Crisis Economy, Who Knows: Information in the Age of the Fortune 500, Communications and Cultural Domination, The Mind Managers, and a co-author of Hope and Folly: The United States and UNESCO, 1945-1985.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 3
Weakening the Democratic Order	p. 11
The Corporation and the Production of Culture	p. 30
The Corporation and the Law	p. 46
Privatization and Commercialization of the Public Sector: Information and Education	p. 66
The Corporate Capture of the Sites of Public Expression	p. 89
The Transnationalization of Corporate Expression	p. 111
Thinking About Media Power: Who Holds It? A Changing View	p. 135
Public Expression in a Crisis Economy	p. 157
Notes	p. 175
Index	p. 191
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