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Media, Education, And America's Counter-Culture Revolution »

Authors: Robert L. Hilliard
ISBN-13: 9781567505122, ISBN-10: 1567505120
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Date Published: November 2000
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Robert L. Hilliard

ROBERT L. HILLIARD is Professor of Media Arts at Emerson College, Boston.

Book Synopsis

Discusses the use and misuse of media and its impact--or lack of it--on our country's political, cultural, and educational development.

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During the 1960s and 1970s, Hilliard (media arts, Emerson College, Boston) was serving in a number of US government media and education positions in Washington, and participated in the counter-culture revolution that encompassed the civil rights and women's liberation movements and protests against the irrelevancies of education and social norms. Here he compiles and comments on some of the hundred of speeches and papers advocating education and media reform that he delivered at the time. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	Motive, Myth, and Media	1
2	Tuning In and Turning On: The Trouble with Education Is Education	17
3	School Work and Homework	33
4	An Open University and School	51
5	Television and Political Control: A Case for TV Literacy	67
6	Communications and Minorities	79
7	Education, Media, and the Inner-city Child	97
8	Urban Communications: A Plan for Action	109
9	Women and Communications	125
10	The Arts: Stage, Gallery, and Museum (Out of the Tower through the Tube to the Multitude)	141
11	A Public Television Alternative to Public Television	151
12	An International University of Communications	163
13	Involvement	175
	Index	181