Anglo-American Media Interactions, 1850-2000

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction: Anglo-American Media Interactions, 1850–2000

   1. Introduction: Anglo-American Media Interactions, 1850–2000

      • Joel H. Wiener, Mark Hampton

      Pages 1-8

3. Comparisons

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. Sensational War Reporting and the Quality Press in Late Victorian Britain and America

      • Richard D. Fulton

      Pages 11-31

   3. Embracing Sporting News in England and America: Nineteenth-century Cricket and Baseball News

      • Matt McIntire

      Pages 32-47

   4. “Get the News! Get the News!” — Speed in Transatlantic Journalism, 1830–1914

      • Joel H. Wiener

      Pages 48-66

4. People

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67

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   2. Matt Morgan and Transatlantic Illustrated Journalism, 1850–90

      • Christopher Kent

      Pages 69-92

   3. James Bryce and the Promise of the American Press, 1888–1921

      • James Startt

      Pages 93-107

   4. Leslie Howard and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.: Promoting the Anglo-American Alliance in Wartime, 1939–43

      • Fred M. Leventhal

      Pages 108-126

5. Anglo-American Identities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127

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   2. The London Press and the American Civil War

      • Michael de Nie

      Pages 129-154

   3. World War I and the Anglo-American Imagined Community: Civilization vs. Barbarism in British Propaganda and American Newspapers

      • Jessica Bennett, Mark Hampton

      Pages 155-175

   4. Red on the Map: Empire and Americanization at the BBC, 1942–50

      • Thomas Hajkowski

      Pages 176-191

6. Americanization and its Discontents

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193

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   2. Keeping the News British: the BBC, British United Press and Reuters in the 1930s

      • Siân Nicholas

      Pages 195-214

   3. Americanization and its Limits: United Artists in the British Market in the 1930s and 1940s

      • Peter Miskell

      Pages 215-233

   4. “Typically Anti-American”? The Labour Movement, America and Broadcasting in Britain, from Beveridge to Pilkington, 1949–62

      • Tom O’Malley

      Pages 234-253

   5. Transatlantic Invasions or Common Culture? Modes of Cultural and Economic Exchange between the American and the British Advertising Industries, 1945–2000

      • Stefan Schwarzkopf

      Pages 254-274

   6. From High Culture to Hip Culture: Transforming the BBC into BBC America

      • Christine Becker

      Pages 275-294

This volume reveals the complicated ways in which British and American media have influenced each other over the past two centuries. In doing so, it adds an important transatlantic dimension to media scholarship, while demonstrating the crucial and varied ways in which media have helped build an Anglo-American 'special relationship'.

• Anglo-American
• Civil war
• Empire
• England
• labour movement
• media
• Victorian era

• The City University of New York, USA

  Joel H. Wiener

• Lingnan University, Hong Kong

  Mark Hampton

CHRISTINE BECKER Assistant Professor, Department of Film, Television, and Theatre, the University of Notre Dame, USA JESSICA BENNETT Postgraduate in Public Administration, the University of Maryland University College Europe MICHAEL DE NIE Assistant Professor of History, the University of West Georgia, USA RICHARD FULTON Vice President for Instruction, Whatcom Community College, Washington, USA THOMAS HAJKOWSKI Assistant Professor of History, College Misericordia in Dallas, Pennsylvania, USA MARK HAMPTON Associate Professor of History, Lingnan University in Hong Kong, China CHRISTOPHER KENT Professor of History, the University of Saskatchewan, Canada FRED LEVENTHAL Professor Emeritus of History, Boston University, USA MATT MCINTIRE Ph.D graduate, the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center, USA PETER MISKELL Lecturer in Business History, the University of Reading, UK SIAN NICHOLAS Senior Lecturer in History, the University of Wales Aberystwyth, UK TOM O'MALLEY Professor of Media Studies, the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK STEFAM SCHWARZKOPF Lecturer in Marketing, Queen Mary College, University of London, UK JAMES D. STARTT Senior Research Professor in History, Valparaiso University, USA JOEL H. WIENER Professor Emeritus of History, The City University of New York, USA.

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