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Radio Goes to War: The Cultural Politics of Propaganda During World War II

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-520-24061-2
Verlag: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR
Erscheinungstermin: 31.10.2003
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Radio Goes to War is the first comprehensive and in-depth look at the role of domestic radio in the United States during the Second World War. As this study convincingly demonstrates, radio broadcasting played a crucial role both in government propaganda and within the context of the broader cultural and political transformations of wartime America. Gerd Horten's absorbing narrative argues that no medium merged entertainment, propaganda, and advertising more effectively than radio. As a result, America's wartime radio propaganda emphasized an increasingly corporate and privatized vision of America's future, with important repercussions for the war years and the postwar era. Examining radio news programs, government propaganda shows, advertising, soap operas, and comedy programs, Horten situates radio wartime propaganda in the key shift from a Depression-era resentment of big business to the consumer and corporate culture of the postwar period.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9780520240612
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-520-24061-2
  • Verlag: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR
  • Erscheinungstermin: 31.10.2003
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2003
  • Produktform: Kartoniert, Trade Paperback
  • Gewicht: 354 g
  • Seiten: 232
  • Format (B x H x T): 154 x 228 x 17 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Radio and the Privatization of War

PART I. RADIO NEWS, PROPAGANDA, AND POLITICS DURING WORLD WAR II
Chapter 1: Radio News, Propaganda, and Politics: From the New Deal to World War II

Chapter 2: Uneasy Persuasion: Government Radio Propaganda, 1941-1943

Chapter 3: Closing Ranks: Propaganda, Politics, and Domestic Foreign-Language Radio

PART II. SELLING THE WAR TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE: RADIO ENTERTAINMENT AND ADVERTISING
Chapter 4: The Rewards of Wartime Radio Advertising

Chapter 5: "Radio Propaganda Must Be Painless": The Comedians Go to War

Chapter 6: "Twenty Million Women Can't Be Wrong": Wartime Soap Operas

Epilogue: The Privatization of America

Notes

Index