Across the Waves

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

Derek W Vaillant (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

258 Seiten

2017
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-04141-9 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Acknowledgments
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations

Introduction: At the Border of U.S. - French Broadcasting

PART I: THE RISE OF U.S.-FRENCH BROADCASTING, 1925-44
1   At the Speed of Sound: Techno-Aesthetic Paradigms in U.S. - French Broadcasting, 1925-39
2   We Won't Always Have Paris: U.S. Networks in France and Europe, 1932-41
3   Voices of the Occupation: U.S. Broadcasting to France during World War II

PART II: SHAPING A U.S.-FRENCH RADIO IMAGINARY, 1945-74
4   Served on a Platter: How French Radio Cracked the U.S. Airwaves
5   The Air of Paris: Women's Talk Radio, Gender, and the Art of Self-Fashionin
6   The Drama of Broadcast History after May 1968
Afterword: Radios at the Heart of Nations
Appendix: U.S.-French Radio Time Line
Notes
Selected Resources
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	29.01.2018
Reihe/Serie	The History of Media and Communication
Zusatzinfo	12 black & white photographs, 3 maps, 2 charts
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	481 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
	Technik ► Nachrichtentechnik
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	0-252-04141-0 / 0252041410
ISBN-13	978-0-252-04141-9 / 9780252041419
Zustand	Neuware