Background
Gitlin, Todd was born on January 6, 1943 in New York City. Son of Max and Dorothy (Siegel) Gitlin.
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"The whole world is watching!" chanted the demonstrators in the Chicago streets in 1968, as the TV cameras beamed images of police cracking heads into homes everywhere. In this classic book, originally published in 1980, acclaimed media critic Todd Gitlin first scrutinizes major news coverage in the early days of the antiwar movement. Drawing on his own experiences (he was president of the Students for a Democratic Society in 1963-64) and on interviews with key activists and news reporters, he shows in detail how the media first ignore new political developments, then select and emphasize aspects of the story that treat movements as oddities. He then demonstrates how the media glare made leaders into celebrities and estranged them from their movement base; how it inflated the importance of revolutionary rhetoric, destabilizing the movement, then promoted "moderate" alternatives--all the while spreading the antiwar message. Finally, Gitlin draws together a theory of news coverage as a form of anti-democratic social management--which he sees at work also in media treatment of the anti-nuclear and other later movements. Updated for 2003 with a new preface, The Whole World Is Watching is a subtle and sensitive book, true to the passions and ironic reversals of its subject, and filled with provocative insights that apply to the media's relationship with all activist movements.
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Whole World Is Watching, The: Mass Media In The Making & Unmaking, by Gitlin, Todd
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With a New Introduction Unsurpassed since its first publication, Inside Prime Time is the only book to take us behind the scenes to reveal how prime-time shows get on the air, stay on the air, and are shaped by the political and cultural climate of their times. Using more than 200 interviews with network executives, producers, writers, agents, and actors, as well as months of on-set investigation during the networks' more prosperous years, sociologist and critic Todd Gitlin takes us into a frantic world searching for hit shows. The result is both a lucid picture of the mechanics of prime time and a series of vivid stories of what succeeded or failed, and why. His analysis includes a blow-by-blow account of how the exceptional police series Hill Street Blues succeeded against all odds before eventually succumbing to formula itself. No one else has analyzed, as Gitlin has, the inside track that links executives and producers, or the efforts of worried advertisers, hopeful writers, and the lobbyists of the fundamentalist right to shape America's waking hours. In a new introduction, Gitlin describes the elements of the new television order, and argues that the proliferation of cable channels and the decline of the old networks have not fundamentally changed the business mentality that guides decisions about the entertainment that will fill Americans' leisure time.
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Jeff Greenfield, Syndicated Columnist: "An extraordinary blend of vivid recollection and brilliant, relentlessly honest analysis. It ought to be the bench mark against wich all future accounts of 'the movement' will be measured." Carl Oglesby, Former President, Students for a Democratic Society: "The Sixties... has the narrative power of a fine novel and is at the same time a cogent work of historical analysis. In the first book about the Movement to be written by one of its leaders, Todd Gitlin brings together the seemingly diverse themes of that decade - civil rights, the Vietnam War, women's liberation, the revolution in Western culture - and shows how they came together to produce an experience unprecedented in American life. Gitlin's command of these themes is unexcelled; his ability to make the period live again, from tear gas to rock and roll, is masterful."
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A glitzy TV news anchor gets involved in a search for Albert Einstein's killer after her mentor--a cult novelist and connoisseur of conspiracy--tips her off to the alleged crime that occurred forty years earlier. A first novel.
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7 essays by leading media critics explore the politics and social implications of television. "...An important step into the past wasteland era of writing about the tube." - NYT Book Review
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Prime time: those precious few hours every night when the three major television networks garner millions of dollars while tens of millions of Americans tune in. Inside Prime Time is a classic study of the workings of the Hollywood television industry, newly available with an updated introduction. Inside Prime Time takes us behind the scenes to reveal how prime-time shows get on the air, stay on the air, and are shaped by the political and cultural climate of their times. It provides an ethnography of the world of American commercial television, an analysis of that world's unwritten rules, and the most extensive study of the industry ever made.
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Takes us into the frantic world madly searching for an unpredictable commodity - the hit show. Uses 200 interviews with producers, writers and agents.
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Gitlin, Todd was born on January 6, 1943 in New York City. Son of Max and Dorothy (Siegel) Gitlin.
Bachelor, Harvard University, 1963; Master of Arts, University of Michigan, 1966; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, 1977.
Freelance writer, Chicago, San Francisco, 1965-1970;
lecturer New College, San Jose (California) State University, 1970-1976;
with, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1974-1977;
assistant professor sociology, director mass committee program, University of California, Berkeley, 1978-1983;
associate professor sociology, director mass committee program, University of California, Berkeley, 1983-1987;
professor sociology, director mass committee program, University of California, Berkeley, 1987-1994;
professor American civilization, Ecole des Hautes Etudes Social Sciences, Paris, 1994-1995;
professor culture, journalism and sociology, New York University, New York City, since 1995. Member editorial board Critical Studies in Mass Communication, Philadelphia, since 1984. Correspondent editor Theory and Society, St. Louis, since 1980.
Contributing editor Tikkun magazine, 1986-1992. Member editorial board Dissent magazine, since 1989. Co-chairman Pen-American Center West, San Francisco, 1987-1988, Executive Committee, 1988-1991.
( With a New Introduction Unsurpassed since its first pu...)
(A glitzy TV news anchor gets involved in a search for Alb...)
( "The whole world is watching!" chanted the demonstrator...)
(Prime time: those precious few hours every night when the...)
(Jeff Greenfield, Syndicated Columnist: "An extraordinary ...)
(Takes us into the frantic world madly searching for an un...)
(7 essays by leading media critics explore the politics an...)
(Whole World Is Watching, The: Mass Media In The Making & ...)
Board of directors Campaign for Peace and Democracy, New York City, 1986-1995.
