The whole world is watching : mass media in the making & unmaking of the New Left
- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, 1980
Originally published: 1980
pt. I. Images of a Movement -- 1. Preliminaries -- 2. Versions of SDS, Spring 1965 -- 3. SDS in the Spotlight, Fall 1965 -- pt. II. Media in the Making and Unmaking of the Movement -- 4. Organizational Crisis, 1965 -- 5. Certifying Leaders and Converting Leadership to Celebrity -- 6. Inflating Rhetoric and Militancy -- 7. Elevating Moderate Alternatives: The Moment of Reform -- 8. Contracting Time and Eclipsing Context -- 9. Broadcasting and Containment -- pt. III. Hegemony, Crisis, and Opposition -- 10. Media Routines and Political Crises -- 11. Seventies Going on Eighties.
The whole World is watching: Mass media in the making and unmaking of the new left. Is an intricate and fascinating story. In Gitlin's sustained, rich narrative of the events as lived by the movement and the events as imagined by the media-his prose supple, his style of thought humane, his frame of reference capacious - he has given us an original and unique set of insights into a relationship of obvious importance and continuing strain for mass democracy in the era of mass communications.
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Politics and government--United States Mass media--Political aspects New Left--United States