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Stacy Zellmann <[log in to unmask]>
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The Daily Planet is a long-awaited selection of Patricia Aufderheide¹s
most important critical essays, updated and organized thematically to
demonstrate the breadth of her thinking on media and film, public
telecommunications policy, and contemporary society. The result is a pithy
and provocative exploration of ³the culture of daily life under capitalism.²

Check out Patricia Aufderheide¹s new book, The Daily Planet: A Critic on
the Capitalist Culture Beat at:
http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/A/aufderheide_planet.html


$19.95 paperback
$49.95 hardcover
368 pages
Available now!


CONTENTS

Introduction ix

Part I. Popular Culture in Context

Capitalist Culture and the Left 3
Growing Up Is Hard to Do in Kidpix 13
Is Educational Children's TV Possible? 23
Paul Harvey and the Culture of Resentment 32
Vietnam Grunts R Us 45
Black Magic 72
When Any Alien Looks Good 77

Part II. Communication and the Public Interest

The What and How of Public Broadcasting 85
Public Television and the Public Sphere 99
Access Cable TV as Electronic Public Space 121
Access Cable in Action 139
The Missing Space on Satellite TV 154
After the Fairness Doctrine 173
Journalism and Public Life Seen through the "Net" 185
Beyond Apocalypse and Utopia in Cyberspace 201

Part III. Independent and International Media

Camcorder Confessions 215
The Social-Issue Documentary Redux 225
British Working-Class Films 231
New Latin American Cinema Reconsidered 238
Grassroots Video in Latin America 257
Making Video with Brazilian Indians 274
Memory and History in Sub-Saharan African Cinema 289

Part IV. Living with the Media

Why and How to Teach Media Literacy 301
Does a Librarian Need Multiculturalism? 311
Conversations in Latin America 319
Doing Business with the Democrats 331
Oh, Grow Up 334
Selections from Interviews 337
Permissions 345


Published by the University of Minnesota Press. Available online and at
your local bookstore.

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