03673nam 22006735 450 99624820090331620220923211853.00-585-46837-097866123573431-59734-848-10-520-93073-81-282-35734-410.1525/9780520930735(CKB)1000000000006611(EBL)223310(OCoLC)475927576(SSID)ssj0000232242(PQKBManifestationID)11220546(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000232242(PQKBWorkID)10209499(PQKB)10961688(MiAaPQ)EBC223310(OCoLC)53023206(MdBmJHUP)muse30518(DE-B1597)519301(DE-B1597)9780520930735(dli)HEB08260(MiU)MIU01000000000000009855033(EXLCZ)99100000000000661120200424h20022002 fg 0engurun#---|u||utxtccrRadio goes to war the cultural politics of propaganda during World War II /Gerd HortenBerkeley, CA :University of California Press,[2002]©20021 online resource (247 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-20783-1 0-520-24061-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Abbreviations --Introduction: Radio And The Privatization Of War --1. Radio News, Propaganda, And Politics: From The New Deal To World War II --2. Uneasy Persuasion: Government Radio Propaganda, 1941- 1943 --3. Closing Ranks: Propaganda, Politics, And Domestic Foreign- Language Radio --4. The Rewards Of Wartime Radio Advertising --5. "Radio Propaganda Must Be Painless": The Comedians Go To War --6. "Twenty Million Women Can't Be Wrong": Wartime Soap Operas --Epilogue: The Privatization Of America --Notes --IndexRadio 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.Radio broadcastingUnited StatesHistory20th centuryRadio in propagandaUnited StatesHistory20th centuryRadio broadcastingPolitical aspectsUnited StatesRadio broadcastingHistoryRadio in propagandaHistoryRadio broadcastingPolitical aspects940.54/88973Horten Gerdauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1020852DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK996248200903316Radio Goes to War2416367UNISA