Target, prime time : advocacy groups and the struggle over entertainment television / Kathryn C. Montgomery.
Offering the first book-length exploration of network television's relations with advocacy groups, Kathryn C. Montgomery presents a comprehensive picture of the impact of organized pressure on prime-time TV. She vividly describes, for example, how the Catholic Church campaigned againstMaude...
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| Other title: | Advocacy groups and the struggle over entertainment television. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1990.
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| Edition: | [1st pbk. ed.] |
| Series: | Communication and society (New York, N.Y.)
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| Summary: | Offering the first book-length exploration of network television's relations with advocacy groups, Kathryn C. Montgomery presents a comprehensive picture of the impact of organized pressure on prime-time TV. She vividly describes, for example, how the Catholic Church campaigned againstMaude's abortion on the TV show, Maude; how outraged actors mobilized a national protest against the portrayal of blacks in the TV miniseries, Beulah Land; and how the Moral Majority waged a sophisticated campaign to "clean up TV," by threatening to boycott advertisers. Exposing the inner workings of networ. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 272 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-262) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780198021650 0198021658 0195063201 9780195063202 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |