See it now confronts McCarthyism : television documentary and the politics of representation

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See it now confronts McCarthyism : television documentary and the politics of representation

Thomas Rosteck

(Studies in rhetoric and communication)

University of Alabama Press, c1994

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-242) and index

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ISBN 9780817307059

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Analyses the medium of documentary and an era in US history. This cultural study considers four ""See It Now"" programmes on the abuses of McCarthyism, originally broadcast in 1953-54, illuminating the structure, content, assumptions and rhetoric of the genre and its impact on the TV industry.
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: pbk ISBN 9780817351915

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Rostock's history offers insight into the relationship between Cold War ideology, television documentary, the tactics of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, and their overall impact on political culture. There are illuminating readings of the documentary texts in this case study of the rhetoric of television documentary.

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