Media, Education, and America's Counter-Culture Revolution: Lost and Found Opportunities for Media Impact on Education, Gender, Race, and the Arts

by Robert L. Hilliard

Overview

The 1960s and 1970s was a time of repression and a time of freedom, a time of ferment rarely seen before in this country. People marched-in, sat-in, loved-in. The will of the people persuaded one president not to run for reelection, forced another president to resign, and ended an iniquitous war. Social and political revolutions took place: Civil rights, women's liberation, protests against the irrelevancies of education and social norms, a counter-culture revolution on the part of young people. The keys to both protest and change were communications and education.

Dr. Robert L. Hilliard not only observed, but participated in and affected America's counter-culture revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, from the vantage point of several key federal government positions in Washington. Based on his papers and speeches from that period, with current commentary added, this is a revealing look at media and education's lost and found opportunities during that period, and what must be done so that they serve America's needs adequately in the new millennium.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781567505122
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/30/2000
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

ROBERT L. HILLIARD is Professor of Media Arts at Emerson College, Boston. His work, writing, and speeches in several federal government media and education positions in Washington, D.C. between 1964 and 1980 provide the bases for this book. Among his more than 20 books is Waves of Rancor: Turbaning in the Radical Right, with co-author Michael Keith, which was selected last year for President Clinton's annual reading list.

Table of Contents

Motive, Myth, and Media
Tuning in and Turbaning On: The Trouble with Education Is Education
School Work and Homework
An Open University and School
Television and Political Control: A Case for Media Literacy
Communications and Minorities
Education, Media, and The Inner-City Child
Urban Communications: A Plan for Action
Women and Communications
The Art: Stage, Gallery, and Museum (Out of the Tower through the Tube to the Multitude)
A Public Television Alternative to Public Television
An Internationl University of Communications
Involvement
Index

Editorial Reviews

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)

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