Across the Waves: How the United States and France Shaped the International Age of Radio

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Synopsis
In 1931, the United States and France embarked on a broadcasting partnership built around radio. Over time, the transatlantic sonic alliance came to personify and to shape American-French relations in an era of increased global media production and distribution. Drawing on a broad range of American and French archives, Derek Vaillant joins textual and aural materials with original data analytics and maps to illuminate U.S.-French broadcasting's political and cultural development. Vaillant focuses on the period from 1931 until France dismantled its state media system in 1974. His analysis examines mobile actors, circulating programs, and shifting governmental and other institutions shaping international radio's use in times of war and peace. He explores the extraordinary achievements, the miscommunications and failures, and the limits of cooperation between America and France as they shaped a new media environment. Throughout, Vaillant explains how radio's power as an instantaneous mass communications tool produced, legitimized, and circulated various notions of states, cultures, ideologies, and peoples as superior or inferior.
Copyright:
2017

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
264 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780252050015
Related ISBNs:
9780252041419, 9780252082931
Publisher:
University of Illinois Press
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Copyrighted By:
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Social Studies, Communication
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Bookshare Staff
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