The Daily Planet

by Aufderheide, Patricia

• ISBN13: 9780816633425
• ISBN10: 0816633428
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr

Summary

The Daily Planet is a long-awaited selection of Patricia Aufderheide's most important critical essays, updated and organized thematically to demonstrate the breadth of her thinking on media and film, public telecommunications policy, and contemporary society. The result is a pithy and provocative exploration of "the culture of daily life under capitalism".

Here, Aufderheide demonstrates criticism that is both activist and analytical. She probes the processes that shape our culture by examining diverse subjects, including the struggle to create quality children's television programming, the meaning of Paul Harvey, the evolution of the war film over the past thirty years, and the ways journalism is changed by the Internet and other new technologies.

Throughout, Aufderheide foregrounds democratic values, displaying the penetrating insights that have made her a leading public intellectual and commentator on contemporary culture.

Author Biography

Patricia Aufderheide is professor in the School of Communication, American University, and a senior editor of In These Times newspaper.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Part I. Popular Culture in Context
Capitalist Culture and the Left	3	(10)
Growing Up Is Hard to Do in Kidpix	13	(10)
Is Educational Children's TV Possible?	23	(9)
Paul Harvey and the Culture of Resentment	32	(13)
Vietnam Grunts R Us	45	(27)
Black Magic	72	(5)
When Any Alien Looks Good	77	(8)
Part II. Communication and the Public Interest
The What and How of Public Broadcasting	85	(14)
Public Television and the Public Sphere	99	(22)
Access Cable TV as Electronic Public Space	121	(18)
Access Cable in Action	139	(15)
The Missing Space on Satellite TV	154	(19)
After the Fairness Doctrine	173	(12)
Journalism and Public Life Seen through the ``Net''	185	(16)
Beyond Apocalypse and Utopia in Cyberspace	201	(14)
Part III. Independent and International Media
Camcorder Confessions	215	(10)
The Social-Issue Documentary Redux	225	(6)
British Working-Class Films	231	(7)
New Latin American Cinema Reconsidered	238	(19)
Grassroots Video in Latin America	257	(17)
Making Video with Brazilian Indians	274	(15)
Memory and History in Sub-Saharan African Cinema	289	(12)
Part IV. Living with the Media
Why and How to Teach Media Literacy	301	(10)
Does a Librarian Need Multiculturalism?	311	(8)
Conversations in Latin America	319	(12)
Doing Business with the Democrats	331	(3)
Oh, Grow Up	334	(3)
Selections from Interviews	337	(8)
Permissions	345