Television and the crisis of democracy / Douglas Kellner

Toward a critical theory of television, 1. -- Theorizing television, 2. -- The politics of theory, 3. -- The logic accumulation and exclusion, 6. -- Critical theory, the culture industries, and the public sphere, 10. -- Contested terrain and the hegemony of capital, 14. -- Hegemony, counterhegemony, and instrumentalist theories, 16. -- Gramsci and hegemony, 17. -- Critical theory and television, 20. -- Broadcasting and the rise of network television, 25. -- The origins of broadcasting, 26. -- The triumph of the commercial system, 34. -- Monopoly capitalism, struggles for corporate hegemony, and the war, 37. -- The coming of television, 41. -- Television and the affluent society, 41. -- Television and the cold war, 46. -- Television in the 1960s, 48. -- Contested terrain : The television in the 1970s, 54. -- Conservative hegemony : Television in the 1980s, 60. -- Reaganite entretainment, 60. -- Deregulation and corporate hegemony, 63. -- Television, government, and business : Toward a critical - institutional theory, 71. -- Toward a theory of network television, 73. -- Television, politics, and the making of conservative hegemony, 133. -- alternatives, 179