Network nations
Subtitle: a transnational history of British and American broadcasting
By: Michele Hilmes
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780415883849; 9780415883856; 9780203843208
Subjects: Television broadcasting; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [334]-348) and index. .
Table of contents: title: Introduction: thinking transnationally: the Anglo-American axis; title: Nations, national identity and the transnational; title: The nations imagine radio, 1922 to 1938.  Chaos and control; title: National broadcasting in Britain; title: The "American system"; title: Trans-Atlantic convergence: 1938-1946. Enormous changes at the last minute; title: The politics and poetics of neutrality; title: In it together: wartime radio; title: Conclusion; title: Television, trade, and transculturation, 1946-1975; title: Disentangling and differentiation, 1946-55; title: New directions and disputes, 1955-64; title: Conclusion; title: Towards "globalization".