LEADER 05216nam 2200565 450 001 9910734339403321 005 20200406192754.0 010 $a0-252-05663-9 010 $a0-252-05001-0 035 $a(CKB)4100000001040090 035 $a(OCoLC)1005186255 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse59628 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5124749 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000001040090 100 $a20171205h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAcross the waves $ehow the United States and France shaped the international age of radio /$fDerek W Vaillant 210 1$aUrbana, [Illinois] ;$aChicago, [Illinois] ;$aSpringfield, [Illinois] :$cUniversity of Illinois Press,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 239 pages) 225 1 $aHistory of Communication 311 $a0-252-08293-1 311 $a0-252-04141-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAt the speed of sound : techno-aesthetic paradigms in U.S.-French broadcasting, 1925-39 -- We won't always have Paris : U.S. networks in France and Europe, 1932-41 -- Voices of the Occupation : U.S. broadcasting to France during World War II -- Served on a platter : how French radio cracked the U.S. airwaves -- The air of Paris : women's talk radio, gender, and the art of self-fashioning -- The drama of broadcast history after May 1968. 330 $a"This book is the first comparative history of 20th-century U.S.-French radio broadcasting and its consequences for cultural politics and international/global communication. As U.S. electronics firms raced into Europe, a succession of French governments cautiously participated in U.S.-French broadcast experiments. The first "transatlantics" revealed disparate national visions of radio's place in the emerging international/global arena. During World War II, however, and continuing into the Cold War years, U.S.-French broadcasting and statecraft wove tightly together, with tangible consequences for how Americans and the French learned to listen to each other. Radio became a projection space of U.S.-French national identity and difference, shaping culture and politics in an international/global media age. This book studies the period from 1931--when live, two-way programs first linked Paris and New York--to 1974, when France disassembled its state media system and the curtain fell on almost a half century of close and continuing radio association. This book uses extensive research in U.S. and French archives to analyze the work of transnational cooperative enterprises, notably among them an initiative to bring a torrent of French-produced, English-language content onto U.S. airwaves after World War II. It shows how a mobile cohort of U.S. and French nationals and expatriates created radio's transnational/global technical structures and aesthetic possibilities, and analyzes how different aesthetic aims and technical systems shaped cultural politics between us. This book brings the history of radio squarely into scholarly conversations about the root formations and tendencies of contemporary global media"--$cProvided by publisher. 330 $a"In 1931, the United States and France embarked on a broadcasting partnership built around radio. Over time, the transatlantic sonic alliance came to personify and to shape American-French relations in an era of increased global media production and distribution. Drawing on a broad range of American and French archives, Derek Vaillant joins textual and aural materials with original data analytics and maps to illuminate U.S.-French broadcasting's political and cultural development. Vaillant focuses on the period from 1931 until France dismantled its state media system in 1974. His analysis examines mobile actors, circulating programs, and shifting governmental and other institutions shaping international radio's use in times of war and peace. He explores the extraordinary achievements, the miscommunications and failures, and the limits of cooperation between America and France as they shaped a new media environment. Throughout, Vaillant explains how radio's power as an instantaneous mass communications tool produced, legitimized, and circulated various notions of states, cultures, ideologies, and peoples as superior or inferior"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aHistory of communication. 606 $aRadio broadcasting$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aRadio broadcasting$zFrance$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zFrance 607 $aFrance$xForeign relations$zUnited States 615 0$aRadio broadcasting$xHistory 615 0$aRadio broadcasting$xHistory 676 $a384.540973/0944 686 $aSOC052000$aHIS036060$aBUS070060$2bisacsh 700 $aVaillant$b Derek$01115649 702 $aMcChesney$b Robert Waterman$f1952- 702 $aNerone$b John C. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910734339403321 996 $aAcross the waves$93401482 997 $aUNINA