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Through a Screen Darkly - Popular Culture, Public Diplomacy, and America's Image Abroad (Hardcover)
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Through a Screen Darkly - Popular Culture, Public Diplomacy, and America's Image Abroad (Hardcover)
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Why it is a mistake to let commercial entertainment serve as
America's de facto ambassador to the world What does the world
admire most about America? Science, technology, higher education,
consumer goods-but not, it seems, freedom and democracy. Indeed,
these ideals are in global retreat, for reasons ranging from
ill-conceived foreign policy to the financial crisis and the
sophisticated propaganda of modern authoritarians. Another reason,
explored for the first time in this pathbreaking book, is the
distorted picture of freedom and democracy found in America's
cultural exports. In interviews with thoughtful observers in eleven
countries, Martha Bayles heard many objections to the violence and
vulgarity pervading today's popular culture. But she also heard a
deeper complaint: namely, that America no longer shares the best of
itself. Tracing this change to the end of the Cold War, Bayles
shows how public diplomacy was scaled back, and in-your-face
entertainment became America's de facto ambassador. This book
focuses on the present and recent past, but its perspective is
deeply rooted in American history, culture, religion, and political
thought. At its heart is an affirmation of a certain ethos-of hope
for human freedom tempered with prudence about human nature-that is
truly the aspect of America most admired by others. And its
author's purpose is less to find fault than to help chart a
positive path for the future.
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