Now in its second edition Entertainment & Politics is an essential text for understanding how
young people acquire and hold political beliefs over time. In this updated and expanded edition
the author reaches beyond the U.S. including research on Canada Great Britain and Ireland to
investigate a broader international picture of the effect the entertainment media has on the
socio-political beliefs of young people. The book examines the many ways that the entertainment
media influence young people and the extent to which young people's beliefs differ from those
of their parents teachers and peers. Findings indicate that media's influence does not fit
into neat conservative and left liberal patterns but interacts with parental and peer
influence in heretofore unexamined ways. This up-to-date text is designed for undergraduates
graduate students professors and interested lay readers.
