Culture, Inc.: The Corporate Takeover of Public Expression

by Herbert Irving Schiller

Book Overview

Most Americans take for granted that they live in an open society with a free market of ideas. But as Herbert Schiller reveals in Culture, Inc., the corporate arm has reached into every corner of daily life, and from the shopping mall to the art gallery, big-business influence has brought about some frightening changes in American culture. Examining the effects of fifty years worth of corporate growth on American culture, Schiller argues that corporate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195067835
• ISBN13: 9780195067835
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Great book, more and more true.

This is an important warning about the corporatization of culture. More and more true as the days go on.

outstanding

oustanding and concise account of how america and amercian corporations are peeling away freedom and free expression creating "an illusion of freedom". i re-read parts of this book on a weekly basis.