Across the Waves

How the United States and France Shaped the International Age of Radio

AvDerek W Vaillant

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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 institutions that shaped 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.

A first comparative history of its subject, Across the Waves provocatively examines how different strategic agendas, aesthetic aims and technical systems shaped U.S.-French broadcasting and the cultural politics linking the United States and France.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-10-18
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:264
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9780252050015
Förlag:University of Illinois Press

Utforska kategorier

Elektronik och kommunikationer inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

Derek W. Vaillant is a professor of communication studies and professor of history, by courtesy, at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Sounds of Reform: Progressivism and Music in Chicago, 1873-1935.

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"Well researched and readable. . . Recommended."--Choice"Vaillant's text is outstanding. The research and reporting are carefully and professionally done, the supporting data enlightening and the story interesting. . . . Across the Waves makes a significant contribution to international media scholarship."--American Journalism "Across the Waves is well argued, thoroughly researched, and culturally conversant." --The Journal of American History

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgmentsList of Acronyms and Abbreviations Introduction: At the Border of U.S. - French Broadcasting PART I: THE RISE OF U.S.-FRENCH BROADCASTING, 1925-441 At the Speed of Sound: Techno-Aesthetic Paradigms in U.S. - French Broadcasting, 1925-392 We Won't Always Have Paris: U.S. Networks in France and Europe, 1932-413 Voices of the Occupation: U.S. Broadcasting to France during World War II PART II: SHAPING A U.S.-FRENCH RADIO IMAGINARY, 1945-744 Served on a Platter: How French Radio Cracked the U.S. Airwaves5 The Air of Paris: Women's Talk Radio, Gender, and the Art of Self-Fashionin6 The Drama of Broadcast History after May 1968Afterword: Radios at the Heart of NationsAppendix: U.S.-French Radio Time LineNotesSelected ResourcesIndex