Böcker av Michele Hilmes

Suitable for both scholars and students this title places film, radio, and television within the context of the national cultural experience.

Traces the history of broadcasting and the infludence developments in broadcasting have had over our social, cultural and economic practices. Examining the broadcasting traditions of the UK and USA, "The Television History Book" make connections between events and tendencies that both unite and differentiate these national broadcasting traditions.

An overview of radio's impact on American culture from the 1920s through the 1940s, incorporating discussion of programmes and their relations to popular cultural understandings of race, ethnicity and gender in the United States of this era.