New preface for this classic of media studies. One of the founders of SDS describes the response of the various news organizations and arrives at the way the New Left came to be characterized.

This is an anatomy and analysis of the television entertainment industry: how it thinks, how it makes decisions, and why it is what it is.

Part critical history, part personal memoir, part celebration, and part meditation, this critically acclaimed work resurrects a generation on all its glory and tragedy.

A classic study of the workings of the Hollywood television industry. The reader is taken behind the scenes to see how shows get their air time and how they are shaped by the political and cultural climate of the time.

The second half of the volume focuses on the political climate in Western Europe, Russia, India, and China.

"--San Francisco Chronicle In this original look at our electronically glutted, speed-addicted world, Todd Gitlin evokes a reality of relentless sensation, instant transition, and nonstop stimulus, which he argues is anything but progress.

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 1995

Informed by Gitlin's own history in the 60s protest movement—but written with both eyes aimed at the future—Occupy Nation is the key book for anyone looking to understand the revolution playing out before our eyes.

7 essays by leading media critics explore the politics and social implications of television. "...An important step into the past wasteland era of writing about the tube." - NYT Book Review