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A word from our sponsor : admen, advertising, and the golden age of radio /

This book describes how admen, advertising agencies, and sponsors shaped U.S. radio into a commercial entertainment medium from the late 1920s until the early 1950s. The author views the development of twentieth-century popular culture through the lens of the advertising and broadcasting industries,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Meyers, Cynthia B.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, [2013]
Edición:First edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Dramatizing a Bar of Soap : The Advertising Industry before Broadcasting
  • The Fourth Dimension of Advertising : The Development of Commercial Broadcasting in the 1920s
  • They Sway Millions as If by Some Magic Wand : The Advertising Industry Enters Radio in the Late 1920s
  • ''Who Owns the Time?'' : Advertising Agencies and Networks Vie for Control in the 1930s
  • The 1930s' Turn to the Hard Sell : Blackett-Sample-Hummert's Soap Opera Factory
  • The Ballet and Ballyhoo of Radio Showmanship : Young & Rubicam's Soft Sell
  • Two Agencies : Batten Barton Durstine & Osborn, Crafters of the Corporate Image, and Benton & Bowles, Radio Renegades
  • Madison Avenue in Hollywood : J. Walter Thompson and Kraft Music Hall
  • Advertising and Commercial Radio during World War II, 1942-45
  • On a Treadmill to Oblivion : The Peak and Sudden Decline of Network Radio
  • Conclusion.