Sartre and the Media - Michael

This study offers a systematic account of Jean-Paul Sartre's involvement in press publications, and radio and television broadcasting in post-war France. Sartre's awareness of the growing power of the media to shape and influence public opinion was the motivating force underlying his interventions in the press from "Combat" and "Le Figaro" in 1944-45 to "La Cause du Peuple", "J'Accuse" and "Liberation" in 1970-74, and in the French state-controlled radio and television network, from the "Tribune des Temps Modernes" radio series of 1947 to the aborted Antenne 2 television history series of 1974-75.;Focused principally on the nature of relations between intellectuals and the media, this book should appeal to those interested in the issues of freedom of expression and censorship in contemporary France. Michael Scriven is the author of "Sartre's Existential Biographies" and "Paul Nizan Communist Novelist", and co-editor of "European Socialist Realism" and "War and Society in Twentieth-Century France".