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Radio's America: The Great Depression and the Rise of Modern Mass Culture
University of Chicago Press, 2007 eISBN: 978-0-226-47193-8 | Paper: 978-0-226-47192-1 | Cloth: 978-0-226-47191-4 Library of Congress Classification PN1991.3.U6L46 2007 Dewey Decimal Classification 302.234409730904
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Orson Welles’s greatest breakthrough into the popular consciousness occurred in 1938, three years before Citizen Kane, when his War of the Worlds radio broadcast succeeded so spectacularly that terrified listeners believed they were hearing a genuine report of an alien invasion—a landmark in the history of radio’s powerful relationship with its audience. In Radio’s America, Bruce Lenthall documents the enormous impact radio had on the lives of Depression-era Americans and charts the formative years of our modern mass culture. See other books on: Great Depression | Radio | Radio broadcasting | Rise | Technology & Engineering See other titles from University of Chicago Press |
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Radio's America: The Great Depression and the Rise of Modern Mass Culture
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University of Chicago Press, 2007
eISBN: 978-0-226-47193-8
Paper: 978-0-226-47192-1
Cloth: 978-0-226-47191-4
eISBN: 978-0-226-47193-8
Paper: 978-0-226-47192-1
Cloth: 978-0-226-47191-4
Orson Welles’s greatest breakthrough into the popular consciousness occurred in 1938, three years before Citizen Kane, when his War of the Worlds radio broadcast succeeded so spectacularly that terrified listeners believed they were hearing a genuine report of an alien invasion—a landmark in the history of radio’s powerful relationship with its audience. In Radio’s America, Bruce Lenthall documents the enormous impact radio had on the lives of Depression-era Americans and charts the formative years of our modern mass culture.
Many Americans became alienated from their government and economy in the twentieth century, and Lenthall explains that radio’s appeal came from its capability to personalize an increasingly impersonal public arena. His depictions of such figures as proto-Fascist Charles Coughlin and medical quack John Brinkley offer penetrating insight into radio’s use as a persuasive tool, and Lenthall’s book is unique in its exploration of how ordinary Americans made radio a part of their lives. Television inherited radio’s cultural role, and as the voting tallies for American Idol attest, broadcasting continues to occupy a powerfully intimate place in American life. Radio’s America reveals how the connections between power and mass media began.
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