Across the waves : : how the United States and France shaped the international age of radio / / Derek W Vaillant.

"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 br...

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Superior document:History of Communication
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Place / Publishing House:Urbana, [Illinois] ;, Chicago, [Illinois] ;, Springfield, [Illinois] : : University of Illinois Press,, 2017.
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:History of communication.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 239 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • At 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.