In relation to the reading, The Surround by Fred Turner, the after-war period and particularly the 1950s are frequently a highly defamed, or at least misunderstood, time in American culture. I like the reading and it has interesting points. With this work, Fred Turner does much to adjust this observation as he demonstrates that it was a significantly more convincing point in history than researchers as much as readers frequently expect and, more particularly, how this time and the media shapes it brought forth arranged the ground for surely, and the radical sight and sound vehicles that directed the culture and sociopolitical messages of the 1960s. Turner thoroughly maps out the courses in which American intellectuals, psychologists, social scientists and artists, together with their European partners, attempted to think of new types of media what he calls ‘the democratic surround’ that would work as a reaction to Nazi propaganda techniques. Turner portrays these “surrounds” as varieties of pictures and words incorporated with conditions that their gatherings of people could enter openly, act suddenly inside, and leave freely. Through these sight and sound conditions, subjects could be shielded from any government’s or, perhaps, even their own totalitarian impulses and practice the skills needed to develop a democratic personality. …show more content…
They would function in a patriotic, community-building manner by simultaneously boosting morale and ‘urging’ citizens to join the war effort overseas, in the process fostering a specific kind of emphatically democratic national