Medal!!
How did the development of mass entertainment affect American culture?

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Medal!!
How did the development of mass entertainment affect American culture?

anonymous · Answer

It affected American culture by the invention of televisions and radios.

praetorian.10 · Answer

it made them fat, seriously, tv dinners, sigh, americans

praetorian.10 · Answer

c;

praetorian.10 · Answer

think about it, you mass produce tvs and everyone gets lazy, you mas produce cars and no one walks, thus they get fat

anonymous · Answer

culture PRA not physical appearance. It gave Americans a excuse to not play or read to there children. as well as making many people have jobs. It also gives some people things to do

e.mccormick · Answer

Pre-TV, the national opinion was pretty diversified and war was pretty supported. TV changed this. There is a homogenization of the Dominant American Culture and bringing the Viet Nam war into homes via TV made it very unpopular. Here are some scholarly texts related to ideas like this: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08838158609386615 http://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/papers/SAGEcs.htm http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8811511&fileId=S1049096500058856 http://www.englishstudentsforum.com/uploads/English%20related/Media_Culture.pdf And this might help too: http://www.shmoop.com/1950s/culture.html