Advocacy Groups and the Entertainment Industry

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Michael Suman, Gabriel Rossman

ISBN: 0-275-96885-5

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-96885-4

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192 pages

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 6/30/2000

List Price: $95.00 (UK Sterling Price: £65.95)

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Description: 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.

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

About the Author: 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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