Radio Goes to War: The Cultural Politics of Propaganda during World War II - Softcover

Horten, Gerd

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520240618 ISBN 13: 9780520240612

Verlag: University of California Press, 2003

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Book by Horten Gerd

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"As we enter what is sure to be another era of contested claims of government control over freedom of speech...the alliance of big business, advertising, and wartime propaganda that Horten so convincingly illuminates takes on a heightened significance.... This is cautionary reading for our new century."

Reseña del editor:

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.

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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0520240618
• ISBN 13: 9780520240612
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 232