Overview

Michael Suman has brought together wide-ranging viewpoints of media advocates, media lawyers, academics, and entertainment industry representatives who examine the important public policy issue of how advocacy groups affect the entertainment industry. In the first part of the book, representatives from media advocacy groups, including Action for Children's Television and Population Communications International, look at their efforts to utilize the media for policy purposes. In the second part, attorneys specializing in communications look at the ways advocacy groups have been aided as well as hindered by changes in the laws and public policy. Changes in advocacy groups as well as the entertainment industry in general are examined by various scholars in the third section. Representatives of the entertainment industry look at the impact of advocacy groups in the fourth section of the book. Scholars as well as public policy makers and those involved in entertainment oversight will find this a provocative analysis.

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Author:   Michael Suman ,  Gabriel Rossman
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Praeger Publishers Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780275968854

ISBN 10:   0275968855
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   30 June 2000
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction Articles by Advocates The Harvard Alcohol Project: Promoting the ""Designated Driver"" by Jay A. Winsten Principles for Effective Advocacy from the Founder of Action for Children's Television by Peggy Charren Using Soap Operas to Confront the World's Population Problem by Irwin Sonny Fox A Catholic Look at the Entertainment Industry by William A. Donohue The Proactive Strategy of GLAAD by William Horn, as interviewed by Gabriel Rossman Strategies of the Media Action Network for Asian Americans by Guy Aoki How Church Advocacy Groups Fostered the Golden Age of Hollywood by Ted Baehr Articles by Lawyers Influencing Media Content Through the Legal System: A Less Than Perfect Solution for Advocacy Groups by Rex S. Heinke and Michelle H. Tremain Public Policy Advocacy: Truant Independent Producers in a Federal City Fixated on a ""Values Agenda"" by Mickey R. Gardner Articles by Academics Gatekeeping in the Neo-Network Era by Michael Curtin What Is an Advocacy Group, Anyway? by Thomas Streeter Holistic and Cooperative Advocacy Groups: Ideal-Typical Analysis by Gabriel Rossman Interest Groups and Public Debate by Michael Suman Advocacy Groups in the Age of Audience Fragmentation: Thoughts on a New Strategy by Robert Pekurny Articles by Industry Representatives Advocacy Groups Confront CBS: Problems or Opportunities? by Carol Altieri Dealing with Advocacy Groups at ABC by Alfred R. Schneider Television and Pressure Groups: Balancing the Bland by Lionel Chetwynd Epilogue A Millenarian View of Artists and Audiences by Nicholas Johnson Selected Bibliography Index"

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MICHAEL SUMAN is Research Director of the UCLA Center for Communication Policy. He has served as project coordinator of the Center's television violence monitoring project and has coauthored several nationwide surveys. Among Professor Suman's earlier publications is Religion and Prime Time Television (Praeger, 1997). GABRIEL ROSSMAN formerly researcher at the UCLA Center for Communication Policy, where he coauthored the Center's panel survey on the social impact of the Internet. He is currently a graduate student in the Princeton University Department of sociology where he studies the sociology of culture.

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