Radio Reader
Essays in the Cultural History of Radio
Routledge (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 29. November 2001
Book
Hardback
448 pages
978-0-415-92820-5 (ISBN)
Description
Radio was the medium which "defined and defied" American culture in the early 20th century, setting patterns for all media that followed. Topics include 1940s radio suspense drama, quiz shows, American propogandists for Axis Powers, The Green Hornet and race, black liberation radio, and NPR.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
25 farbige Abbildungen
25 b&w photographs
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-92820-5 (9780415928205)
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10/2001
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Content
Re-Thinking Radio, Michele Hilmes; Radio and Political Transition - Public Service, Propaganda and Promotional Culture, Kate Lacey; Critical Reception: Public Intellectuals Dercry Depression-era Radio, Mass Culture and Modern America Bruce Lenthall, Retuning the Farm - Rural Radio Listening and the State in Wisconsin, 1920-1932, Derek Vaillant; Vox Pop: Network Radio and the Voice of the People, Jason Loviglio; The Tendency to Deprave and Corrupt - Regulation and Irregular Sexuality in Golden Age Radio Comedy Matthew Murray, Man of the Hour, Walter A. Maier and the Religion by Radio on the Lutheran Hour, Tona Hangen; Scary Women and Scarred Men - Radio Suspense Drama, Gender Trouble and Postwar Change (1943-1948), Allison McCracken; Radio's "Cultural Front" 1938-1948, Judith E. Smith; Radio and the Political Discourse of Racial Equality, Barbara Savage; A Dark(ened) Figure on the Airwaves - Radio, Racial Representation and The Green Hornet, Alexander Russo; American Radio Propogandists for the Axis Powers, William F.O'Connor; Bells of Freedom - American Influenced Radio Programming during the Allied Occupation of Japan, Susan Smulyan; Before the Scandals - The Radio Precedents of the Quiz Show Genre, Jason Mittell; The "Radio-Active Housewife" - Suburban Consumers, Cold War Homes, and the Demise of Daytime Serials in the Age of Television, Jennifer Wang; Radio, Music, Culture and Business in Transition - 1947-1962, Eric Rothenbuhler; Turn On ... Tune In - The Rise and Demise of Commercial Underground Radio, Michael Keith; National Public Radio and the Idea of Public Service, Jack Mitchell; The Alienation fo the Public from Public Radio - The Low-Power Alternative, Paul Riismandel; Scanning the "Stations of the Cross" - Christian Right Radio in Post-Fordist Society, Paul Apostolidis, Black Liberation Radio, John Fiske; Talk Talk, Susan Douglas; Radio's Digital Future - Preserving the Public Interest in the Age of New Media, Michael McCauley.