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Across the Waves: How the United States and France Shaped the International Age of Radio
Contributor(s): Vaillant, Derek W. (Author)
ISBN: 0252041410     ISBN-13: 9780252041419
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
OUR PRICE:   $108.90  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: October 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Media Studies
- History | United States - 20th Century
- Business & Economics | Industries - Media & Communications
Dewey: 384.540
LCCN: 2017025367
Series: History of Communication
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.10 lbs) 258 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
 
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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 institutions that shaped 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.

A first comparative history of its subject, Across the Waves provocatively examines how different strategic agendas, aesthetic aims and technical systems shaped U.S.-French broadcasting and the cultural politics linking the United States and France.