Writing the radio war : literature, politics and the BBC, 1939-1945 /

Writing the Radio War positions the Second World War as a critical moment in the history of cultural mediation in Britain. Through chapters focusing on the middlebrow radicalism of J.B. Priestley, ground-breaking works by Louis MacNeice and James Hanley at the BBC Features Department, frontline repo...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Whittington, Ian (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]
Collection:Edinburgh critical studies in war and culture.
Sujets:
British Broadcasting Corporation > History.
British Broadcasting Corporation
1936-1945
World War, 1939-1945 > Great Britain > Radio broadcasting and the war.
World War, 1939-1945 > Social aspects > Great Britain.
World War, 1939-1945 > Great Britain > Literature and the war.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Aspect social > Grande-Bretagne.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Grande-Bretagne > Littérature et guerre.
ARCHITECTURE > History > General.
Politics and government
Radio broadcasting and war
Social aspects
War and literature
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1936-1945.
Grande-Bretagne > Politique et gouvernement > 1936-1945.
Great Britain
Electronic books.
History
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction : Projecting Britain
  • Out of the people : J.B. Priestley's broadbrow radicalism
  • James Hanley and the shape of the Wartime Features Department
  • To build the falling castle : Louis MacNeice and the drama of form
  • Versions of neutrality : Denis Johnston's War Reports
  • Calling the West Indies : Una Marson's wireless Black Atlantic
  • Coda : Coronation.

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