Through a Screen Darkly: Popular Culture, Public Diplomacy, and America's Image Abroad

by Martha Bayles

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300123388
• ISBN13: 9780300123388
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"