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Network Nations: A Transnational History of British and American Broadcasting book cover

1st Edition

Network Nations A Transnational History of British and American Broadcasting

By Michele Hilmes Copyright 2012
376 Pages
by Routledge

388 Pages
by Routledge

376 Pages
by Routledge
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In Network Nations , Michele Hilmes reveals and re-conceptualizes the roots of media globalization through a historical look at the productive transnational cultural relationship between British and American broadcasting. Though frequently painted as opposites--the British public service tradition contrasting with the American commercial system--in fact they represent two sides of the same coin.... Read more
Introduction: Thinking Transnationally: The Anglo-American Axis  I. The Nations Imagine Radio, 1922 to 1938  1. Chaos and Control  2. National Broadcasting in Britain  3. The "American System"  II. Trans-Atlantic Convergence, 1938 to 1946  4. Enormous Changes at the Last Minute  5. The Politics and Poetics of Neutrality  6. In It Together: Wartime Radio III. Television, Trade, and Transculturation, 1946 to 1975  7. Disentangling and Differentiation, 1946 to 1955  8. New Directions and Disputes, 1955 to 1964  9. Transatlantic Partnerships, 1964 to 1980  10. Toward "Globalization"

Biography

Michele Hilmes is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author or editor of several books on media history, including Hollywood and Broadcasting: From Radio to Cable (1990), Radio Voices: American Broadcasting 1922-1952 (1997); Only Connect: A Cultural History of Broadcasting in the United States (3rd ed. 2010); The Radio Reader: Essays in the Cultural History of Radio (2001), The Television History Book (2003), and NBC: America’s Network (2007).

"Michele Hilmes, a leading media historian in the USA, has made an important contribution to the comparative study of the development of radio and television in America and Britain. The British public service tradition and the American commercial model have had more in common than is generally supposed, as Hilmes demonstrates in her clear and readable account of their intertwined histories." --Professor Paddy Scannell, Department of Communication Studies, University of Michigan

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