1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996404445303316

Titolo

Storia delle donne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Firenze : , : Firenze University Press, , [2005]-

ISSN

1826-7505

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

[E]

Soggetti

Women

Periodicals.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed

"Concepire, generare, nascere."

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2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790678403321

Autore

Meyers Cynthia B

Titolo

A word from our sponsor : admen, advertising, and the golden age of radio / / Cynthia B. Meyers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Fordham University Press, , [2013]

©2014

ISBN

0-8232-6893-4

0-8232-5371-6

0-8232-5523-9

0-8232-5377-5

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (404 p.)

Disciplina

659.14/2097309041

Soggetti

Radio advertising - United States - History - 20th century

Radio programs - United States - History - 20th century

Radio broadcasting - United States - History - 20th century

Advertising in popular culture - United States - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Dramatizing a Bar of Soap -- 2. The Fourth Dimension of Advertising -- 3. They Sway Millions as If by Some Magic Wand -- 4. ‘‘Who Owns the Time?’’ -- 5. The 1930's Turn to the Hard Sell -- 6. The Ballet and Ballyhoo of Radio Showmanship -- 7. Two Agencies -- 8. Madison Avenue in Hollywood -- 9. Advertising and Commercial Radio during World War II, 1942–45 -- 10. On a Treadmill to Oblivion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

During the “golden age” of radio, from roughly the late 1920's until the late 1940's, advertising agencies were arguably the most important sources of radio entertainment. Most nationally broadcast programs on network radio were created, produced, written, and/or managed by advertising agencies: for example, J. Walter Thompson produced “Kraft Music Hall” for Kraft; Benton & Bowles oversaw “Show Boat” for Maxwell House Coffee; and Young & Rubicam managed “Town Hall Tonight” with comedian Fred Allen for Bristol-Myers. Yet this fact has



disappeared from popular memory and receives little attention from media scholars and historians. By repositioning the advertising industry as a central agent in the development of broadcasting, author Cynthia B. Meyers challenges conventional views about the role of advertising in culture, the integration of media industries, and the role of commercialism in broadcasting history. Based largely on archival materials, A Word from Our Sponsor mines agency records from the J. Walter Thompson papers at Duke University, which include staff meeting transcriptions, memos, and account histories; agency records of BBDO, Benton & Bowles, Young & Rubicam, and N. W. Ayer; contemporaneous trade publications; and the voluminous correspondence between NBC and agency executives in the NBC Records at the Wisconsin Historical Society. Mediating between audiences’ desire for entertainment and advertisers’ desire for sales, admen combined “showmanship” with “salesmanship” to produce a uniquely American form of commercial culture. In recounting the history of this form, Meyers enriches and corrects our understanding not only of broadcasting history but also of advertising history, business history, and American cultural history from the 1920's to the 1940's.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910769127403321

Titolo

Artes (Bologna)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dipartimento delle arti DAR, Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna

ISSN

2974-7287

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico