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Network nations : a transnational history of British and American broadcasting /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hilmes, Michele, 1953-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2012.
Subjects:
Television broadcasting > Great Britain > History.
Television broadcasting > United States > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: thinking transnationally: the Anglo-American axis
  • Nations, national identity and the transnational
  • The nations imagine radio, 1922 to 1938. Chaos and control
  • National broadcasting in Britain
  • The "American system"
  • Trans-Atlantic convergence: 1938-1946. Enormous changes at the last minute
  • The politics and poetics of neutrality
  • In it together: wartime radio
  • Conclusion
  • Television, trade, and transculturation, 1946-1975
  • Disentangling and differentiation, 1946-55
  • New directions and disputes, 1955-64
  • Conclusion
  • Towards "globalization."