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Radio Goes to War: The Cultural Politics of Propaganda During World War II

Radio Goes to War: The Cultural Politics of Propaganda During World War II

Horten, Gerd

Paperback

General SociologyGeneral United States HistoryWorld War II

ISBN10: 0520240618
ISBN13: 9780520240612
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Oct 1 2003
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.08 Depth: 8.96
Language: English
Radio Goes to War is the first comprehensive and in-depth look at the role of domestic radio in the United States during the Second World War. As this study convincingly demonstrates, radio broadcasting played a crucial role both in government propaganda and within the context of the broader cultural and political transformations of wartime America. Gerd Horten's absorbing narrative argues that no medium merged entertainment, propaganda, and advertising more effectively than radio. As a result, America's wartime radio propaganda emphasized an increasingly corporate and privatized vision of America's future, with important repercussions for the war years and the postwar era. Examining radio news programs, government propaganda shows, advertising, soap operas, and comedy programs, Horten situates radio wartime propaganda in the key shift from a Depression-era resentment of big business to the consumer and corporate culture of the postwar period.

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