The Business of America: How Consumers Have Replaced Citizens and How We Can Reverse the Trend

ISBN-13: 9780415944694 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 216 str.

Saul Landau; Landau Landau

Opis

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Recenzje

"The credit card has gradually replaced the voter registration card as a key symbol of civic involvement. Saul Landau takes a fresh and valuable look at how and why -- and what we can do about it. Against the mass-media grain, this book refutes the inevitability of corporate consciousness. Readers will find in Landau's writing an incisive analytical approach combined with an uplifting spirit
." -- Norman Solomon, Syndicated columnist and Author, The Habits of Highly Deceptive Media
"Papers critically examine the vision of President George W. Bush; the national security culture; media in the twenty-first century; some environmental issues; and the Iraqu conundrum." -- Journal of Economic Literature

Spis treści

TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PREFACE FOREWORD: By Marcus Raskin INTRODUCTION I. THE BUSH VISION: A BIPOLAR POLITICAL DISORDER -The Culture of Naked Power -Politics and the Enron Scandal, Part I: The Enron System Works -Well, For Some People! -Enron Part II: Sex and the Enron Scam -A Dialogue About Sex, Violence and the Budget -It's the Budget Stupid! II. CLASSIFY THIS! NATIONAL SECURITY CULTURE SETS THE NORM -The Intelligence Culture in the National Security Age -Our Aging Faust -A Panglossian Conversation -History? What's That? III. SHEEP DON'T NEED WHIPPING: MEDIA IN THE 21ST CENTURY -World News in Shotgun Pellets of Anxiety -Religious Diversion From The Issues In The Age Of Reason And Hi Tech -Review of Pollack -Advertising Can Make You Personally and Politically Crazy -Commercial Messages Produce Advance Scatteration -Television: Democracy at its Ugliest -Clear Channel Fogs the Airwaves -The Film Industry: Business and Technology IV. AHAB CAN BEAT THE WHALE -At Two with Nature -Commuting in Los Angeles -Privatize- the Key to Public Culture -Will the Next War be Against Smog? -A Global Warming Sermon in Dialogue -An Anza Borrego Odyssey -Mount Whitney Towers Over Death Valley, but Death Valley Doesn't Look Up to Whitney -Diseased Meat? - Could be Wurst! -Exporting the Best Chemicals Money Can Absorb -Las Vegas: Bush's America -Cuba is Not Las Vegas: Scenes from a Late Summer Havana Wedding V. THE IRAQ CONNUNDRUM -Bush and King Henry-Similar Birds of Different Feathers -Don't Get Distracted by Cameron Diaz's Acne or Talk of War -How 9/11 Events Helped Democracy to Evolve toward Perfection -Different Worlds -Shiite Happens -The Quiet American Returns on Film -Shopping, the End of the World and G.W. Bush: Part I and II VI. CLOSING REMARKS -There is Life After Shopping-And It Feels Good VII. ENDNOTES VIII. BIBLIOGRAPHY IX. INDEX

O autorze

Saul Landau, an internationally-known scholar, author, commentator, and filmmaker, is the Director of Digital Media Programs and International Outreach at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He has made 40 films, including the recent Syria: Between Iraq and a Hard Place. He received the Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award, the George Polk Award for Investigative Reporting, and the First Amendment Award, as well as an Emmy for Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang. He has written fourteen books including his most recent, The Pre-emptive Empire: A Guide to Bush's Kingdom, and received an Edgar Allen Poe Award for Assassination on Embassy Row, a report on the murder of Orlando Letelier. He is currently working on a detective novel.