American Protestants and TV in the 1950s : responses to a new medium / Michele Rosenthal
- 作者： RosenthalMich獺ele
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- 出版： New York : Palgrave Macmillan 2007
- 叢書名： Religion/culture/critique
- 主題： Television broadcasting--Religious aspects--Protestant churches , Television broadcasting--United States--Religious aspects--Protestant churches
- 版本：1st ed.
- ISBN： 9780230609211 、 023060921X
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- 書目註：While television today is taken for granted, Americans in the 1950s faced the challenge of negotiating the new medium's place in the home and in American culture in general. Protestant leaders--both mainstream and evangelical--began to think carefully about what television meant for their communities and its potential impact on their work. Using the American Protestant experience of the introduction of television, Rosenthal illustrates the importance of the interplay between a new medium and its users in an engaging book suitable for general readers and students alike Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-170) and index
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館藏資訊
Americans in the 1950s faced the challenge of negotiating the new medium's place in the home and in American culture in general. Using the American Protestant experience of the introduction of television, Rosenthal illustrates the importance of the interplay between a new medium and its users.
內容註
Introduction: The triumph of televangelism and the decline of mainline religious broadcasting-- American Protestantism and the television : a paradoxical relationship -- 'Turn it off' : the liberal Protestant critique of television -- Mainline religious broadcasting : a failure? -- 'Preserving our American heritage' : television and the constructionof evangelical identity -- 'The age of space requires space age teaching tools' : technology on evangelical terms -- Protestants and the television : the paradox reassessed