It's Show Time (Politics, Media, and Popular Culture, Vol. 2) [Paperback]

David A. Schultz (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 5, 2000 | ISBN-10: 082044135X | ISBN-13: 978-0820441351

It's Show Time! Media, Politics, and Popular Culture is an exciting collection of original essays introducing undergraduate students and interested readers to the important role that the media and popular culture have in shaping their lives and views on politics. Written by both political scientists and journalists, this book looks at the diverse ways television, movies, the Internet, and even soap operas mold public opinion and define how we view political reality. However, as these essays will reveal, this socialization is not all benign. Instead, this book reveals a corporate media increasingly trapped by the demands to inform, entertain, and make a profit--often at times distorting reality by transforming criminals into heroes, assassination theories into fact, and participatory government into a spectator sport. Overall, It's Show Time! explores the limits and possibilities of the media and emerging information technologies as they shape political perceptions and politics into the twenty-first century.

Product Details

• Paperback: 291 pages
• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing (April 5, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 082044135X
• ISBN-13: 978-0820441351
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,044,521 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

David Schultz is professor in the School of Business at Hamline University and at the University of Minnesota Law School where he is a Senior Fellow at the Institute on Law and Politics. Professor Schultz is the author/editor of 25 books and more than 80 articles on topics including election law, American politics, eminent domain, constitutional law, public policy, legal and political theory, and the media and politics. David is a former host of "Minnesota Matters," on Air America Minnesota Radio, and he is a nationally-recognized expert on political ethics, money and politics, political participation, and land use law. He has been a frequent commentator on television, radio, and in over 100 domestic and international newspapers and periodicals, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Today Show (NBC), MSNBC, ABC News, CBS News, Fox News, Cox News Service,, Time, Newsweek, Radio Free Europe, National Journal, Congressional Quarterly, La Nouvelle Observateur, L'Express, National Public Radio Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, and the Chicago Tribune. David blogs at http://schultzstake.blogspot.com/ .