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  • Radio Rides the Range

    A Reference Guide to Western Drama on the Air, 1929-1967

    Edited by Jack French, David S. Siegel ...
    This is a comprehensive encyclopedia to the more than 100 radio programs portraying the American West, in fact and fiction, heard by generations of listeners from the Great Depression through the Cold War era. The book includes both the popular and lesser known series, as well as would-be offerings that never made it past the audition stage. Each entry describes the series, the extent to which it ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Radio for the Millions

    Hindi-Urdu Broadcasting Across Borders

    Co-winner, 2023 AIPS Book Prize, American Institute of Pakistan StudiesFrom news about World War II to the broadcasting of music from popular movies, radio played a crucial role in an increasingly divided South Asia for more than half a century. Radio for the Millions examines the history of Hindi-Urdu radio during the height of its popularity from the 1930s to the 1980s, showing how it created ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Radio Empire

    The BBC’s Eastern Service and the Emergence of the Global Anglophone Novel

    Series series Modernist Latitudes
    Initially created to counteract broadcasts from Nazi Germany, the BBC’s Eastern Service became a cauldron of global modernism and an unlikely nexus of artistic exchange. Directed at an educated Indian audience, its programming provided remarkable moments: Listeners in India heard James Joyce reading from Finnegans Wake on the eve of independence, as well as the literary criticism of E. M. Forster ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Podcasting in a Platform Age

    From an Amateur to a Professional Medium

    Series series Bloomsbury Podcast Studies
    Podcasting in a Platform Age explores the transition underway in podcasting by considering how the influx of legacy and new media interest in the medium is injecting professional and corporate logics into what had been largely an amateur media form.Many of the most high-profile podcasts today, however, are produced by highly-skilled media professionals, some of whom are employees of media ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Matador

    Mennesker, myter og minder

    by Per Kuskner ...
    Matador – mennesker, myter & minder samler, 30 år efter seriens sidste afsnit blev optaget, hele det store tv-univers i én og samme bog. Journalisten Per Kuskner har interviewet et væld af folk foran og bag kameraet for at få den komplette og samlede historie om dette stykke unik danmarks-historie, der stadig fascinerer og flittigt bliver set i mange danske hjem – bl.a. takket være over 3 mio. ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Selling the Silver Bullet

    The Lone Ranger and Transmedia Brand Licensing

    by Avi Santo ...
    Series series Texas Film and Media Studies Series
    Originating as a radio series in 1933, the Lone Ranger is a cross-media star who has appeared in comic strips, comic books, adult and juvenile novels, feature films and serials, clothing, games, toys, home furnishings, and many other consumer products. In his prime, he rivaled Mickey Mouse as one of the most successfully licensed and merchandised children’s properties in the United States, while ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Golden Age of Boxing on Radio and Television

    A Blow-by-Blow History from 1921 to 1964

    Radio and television broadcasting were as important to the growth and popularity of boxing as it was to the reshaping of our very culture. In The Golden Age of Boxing on Radio and Television, Frederick V. Romano explores the many roles that each medium played in both the development and the depiction of the sport. Principal among the topics covered are the ever-changing role of technology during ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Spørge Jørgen

    Jørgen Leth svarer på alt

    Hvad synes du om at hedde Jørgen? Det er et godt navn. Jeg kan godt lide det. Og navnlig den måde, det udtales på i Haiti. Monsieur Jorgen. Med Jorgen udtalt i to tydelige stavelser. Præmissen i Spørge Jørgen er simpel. Danskerne kan stille et hvilket som helst spørgsmål til Jørgen Leth, der lover ”at svare på alt”. Hvornår har du sidst grædt? Hvordan forholder du dig til at blive ældre? Hvordan ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Sounds of Change

    A History of FM Broadcasting in America

    When it first appeared in the 1930s, FM radio was a technological marvel, providing better sound and nearly eliminating the static that plagued AM stations. It took another forty years, however, for FM's popularity to surpass that of AM. In Sounds of Change, Christopher Sterling and Michael Keith detail the history of FM, from its inception to its dominance (for now, at least) of the airwaves ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Feminista Frequencies

    Community Building through Radio in the Yakima Valley

    Series series Decolonizing Feminisms
    Beginning in the 1970s Chicana and Chicano organizers turned to community radio broadcasting to educate, entertain, and uplift Mexican American listeners across the United States. In rural areas, radio emerged as the most effective medium for reaching relatively isolated communities such as migrant farmworkers. And in Washington’s Yakima Valley, where the media landscape was dominated by ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Archers Archives

    The Archers Archives celebrates 60 years of the nation's favourite radio drama - looking back at the most dramatic events to happen over 16,000 episodes, complete with cast and crew interviews. Relive the defining moments in Archers history, from the devastating 1955 stables fire and the 1957 Tom Forrest manslaughter charge to the shocking imprisonment of Susan Carter in the early 1990s, the ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Spørge Jørgen 2

    Jørgen Leth svarer på alt - igen

    Hvad betyder dans for dig? Det er vidunderligt. Jeg føler mig draget af den følelse, der kommer over mig, når jeg ikke kan holde mig tilbage fra at danse. Det sker stadig for mig her på mit hjemsted, resortet Cormier Plage i Haiti, når de spiller såkaldte kompasange, haitiansk dansemusik. Så tager jeg lige et par trin i baren. Det er bartenderne vilde med. Danskerne har spurgt Jørgen Leth om alt. ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Rebels on the Air

    An Alternative History of Radio in America

    by Jesse Walker ...
    Explores the alternative radio that refuses to succumb to the big business that monopolizes the airwavesBoring DJs who never shut up, and who don't even pick their own records. The same hits, over and over. A constant stream of annoying commercials. How did radio get so dull?Not by accident, contends journalist and historian Jesse Walker. For decades, government and big business have colluded to ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Shooting Women

    Behind the Camera, Around the World

    Shooting Women takes readers around the world to explore the lives of camerawomen working in features, TV news, and documentaries. From pioneers like African American camerawoman Jessie Maple Patton who got her job only after suing the union – to China’s first camerawomen – who travelled with Mao – to rural India where women in poverty have learned camerawork as a means of empowerment, Shooting ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Broadcasting the Civil War in El Salvador

    A Memoir of Guerrilla Radio

    Series series LLILAS Translations from Latin America Series
    During the 1980s war in El Salvador, Radio Venceremos was the main news outlet for the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN), the guerrilla organization that challenged the government. The broadcast provided a vital link between combatants in the mountains and the outside world, as well as an alternative to mainstream media reporting. In this first-person account, "Santiago," ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Radio

    Essays in Bad Reception

    by John Mowitt ...
    In a wide-ranging, cross-cultural, and transhistorical assessment, John Mowitt examines radio’s central place in the history of twentieth-century critical theory. A communication apparatus that was a founding technology of twentieth-century mass culture, radio drew the attention of theoretical and philosophical writers such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Lacan, and Frantz Fanon, who ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy

    The king of radio comedy from the Great Depression through the early 1950s, Jack Benny was one of the most influential entertainers in twentieth-century America. A master of comic timing and an innovative producer, Benny, with his radio writers, developed a weekly situation comedy to meet radio’s endless need for new material, at the same time integrating advertising into the show’s humor. Through ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Anatomy of Sound

    Norman Corwin and Media Authorship

    Edited by Jacob Smith, Neil Verma ...
    This collection examines the work of Norman Corwin—one of the most important, yet understudied, media authors of all time—as a critical lens to view the history of multimedia authorship and sound production. Known as the “poet laureate” of radio, Corwin is most famous for his radio dramas, which reached millions of listeners around the world and contributed to radio’s success as a mass media form ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Podcasting

    The Audio Media Revolution

    Born out of interviews with the producers of some of the most popular and culturally significant podcasts to date (Welcome to Night Vale, Radiolab, Serial, The Black Tapes, We're Alive, The Heart, The Truth, Lore, Love + Radio, My Dad Wrote a Porno, and others) as well as interviews with executives at some of the most important podcasting institutions and entities (the BBC, Radiotopia, Gimlet ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • A Companion to Sound in German-Speaking Cultures

    Series Book 237 - Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
    Explores sonic events and auditory experiences in German-speaking contexts from the Middle Ages to the digital age, opening up new understandings.As a sub-discipline of cultural studies, sound studies is a firmly established field of inquiry, examining how sonic events and auditory experiences unfold in culturally and historically contingent life situations.Responding to new questions in sound ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Radiophilia

    Series series The Study of Sound
    A century ago, the emergence of radio, along with organized systems of broadcasting, sparked a global fascination with the 'wonder' of sound transmission and reception. The thrilling experience of tuning in to the live sounds of this new medium prompted strong affective responses in its listeners.This book introduces a new concept of radiophilia, defined as the attachment to, or even a love of ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Radio's Second Century

    Past, Present, and Future Perspectives

    Winner of the 2022 Broadcast Education Association Book AwardOne of the first books to examine the status of broadcasting on its one hundredth anniversary, Radio’s Second Century investigates both vanguard and perennial topics relevant to radio’s past, present, and future. As the radio industry enters its second century of existence, it continues to be a dominant mass medium with almost total ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Radio Plays

    The Wasted Years; Crossing the River; The Prince of Africa; Writing Fiction; A Kind of Home: James Baldwin in Paris; Hotel Cristobel; A Long Way from Home; Dinner in the Village; Somewhere in England

    Caryl Phillips is one of the most respected writers of his generation. An award-winning author best known for his fiction, essays and stage plays, he is also the author of radio plays, nine of which were broadcast by the BBC between 1984 and 2016. Previously locked away in Phillips's archives, housed at the Beinecke Library at Yale University, these hidden gems are now published in Caryl Phillips ... Read more

    $28.99 USD