The Anglo-American Media Connection
Book
Hardback
296 pages
978-0-19-871523-8 (ISBN)
Description
The Anglo-American media constitute one of the world's most familiar, and least analyzed, alliances. For the United States' media, this close connection with Britain is one of several unambiguous American international media trading advantages. For Britain the relationship is more ambiguous: in news and factual media, Britain can realistically see itself as the world media number two, but across the broad range of entertainment Britain is closer to being a colonial dependency of Hollywood. Is Britain a Trojan Horse for American media in Europe? No more so than the other larger European countries, the author of this work argues, which, like Britain, combine media nationalism with dependence on Hollywood. Margaret Thatcher, Francois Mitterrand and Brussels all pursued policies which assisted the American media in Europe. Spanning a broad range from advertising to publishing, pop music and pornography, this book also addresses the media future: does the merger of American TV networks with Hollywood companies constitute a new Hollyweb cartel (of a few companies controlling hundreds of channels) which excludes European companies? Can the BBC survive until 2022?
Can televised sport help to create a European identity? The book is aimed at those interested in current media issues as well as undergraduate students of British and international media.
Can televised sport help to create a European identity? The book is aimed at those interested in current media issues as well as undergraduate students of British and international media.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
figures, tables, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 170 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-19-871523-8 (9780198715238)
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Persons
Content
I: Britain and Other American Media Advantages; 1: The USA as Popular Culture Number One; 2: Brits on the Anglo-American team; 3: Hollywood Genre Menu; 4: Multiplication of Video Channels and Programming; 5: Washington as Media Policy Umpire and Commercial Booster; 6: Bulking up for Digital: the Vertical Imperative; II: Britain as Media Number Two to the USA; 7: Britain as Number Two in the Anglo-American Media; 8: World News Duopoly; 9: Public Service Broadcasting; 10: British Popular Music and the BBC; 11: Book Publishing: US-UK Merger; 12: Advertising Agencies; III: Britain as Film, Television and Press Colony; 13: Hollywood and British Media Subordination; 14: Non-Citizen Press Moguls: Feuds and Foreign Policy; 15: British Broadcasting Containment and Competition; 16: Mrs Thatcher's Farewell Waive, Skys Satellite and Cable Monopoly; 17: Will a British BBC Survive Until 2022?; IV: Europe adds Deregulation to Media Nationalism; 18: France and the Germany Copy Italian Accident: Britain Follows Later; 19: Television Without Frontiers: Brussels Misreads US Satellites and British Privatization; 20: A Policy for Film Auteurs, But None for Hollywood; 21: Sports Media: Advantage Europe, Game USA; 22: Smaller Countries: Media Nationalism Multiplied; V: Conclusions; 23: A Win for US Media, Not USA; 24: Britain's Anglo-American Meda Mirage; 25: Towards Euro- and Anglo-American Media.