Radio Goes to War
Subtitle: The Cultural Politics of Propaganda during World War II
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: February 6, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780520207837
Subjects: Media studies; Propaganda; Radio; Radio & television industry; World history: Second World War; Second World War, 1939-1945; Military - World War II; History - Military / War; United States; History: World; USA; Political aspects; Mass Media - General; United States - General; History / General; History; General; 20th century; Radio broadcasting; Radio in propaganda
First sentence: In the late 1930s, radio was no longer young.
Description: "Radio Goes to War is the first comprehensive and in-depth look at the role of domestic radio in the United States during World War II. 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 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."--BOOK JACKET.