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Cinema and Radio in Britain and America, 1920-60
Jeffrey Richards
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Description for Cinema and Radio in Britain and America, 1920-60
Paperback. The book charts the evolving relationship between cinema and radio during the heyday of the two media and compares and contrasts their development in Britain and America Series Editor(s): Richards, Jeffrey. Series: Studies in Popular Culture. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 3JJ; APF; APW; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
Cinema and radio in Britain and America, 1920-60 charts the evolving relationship between the two principal mass media of the period. It explores, for the first time in print, the creative symbiosis that developed between the two, including regular film versions of popular radio series as well as radio versions of hit films. This fascinating volume, now available in paperback, examines specific genres (comedy and detective stories) to identify similarities and differences in their media appearances, and in particular issues arising from the nature of film as predominantly visual and radio as exclusively aural. Richards also ... Read more
Cinema and radio in Britain and America, 1920-60 charts the evolving relationship between the two principal mass media of the period. It explores, for the first time in print, the creative symbiosis that developed between the two, including regular film versions of popular radio series as well as radio versions of hit films. This fascinating volume, now available in paperback, examines specific genres (comedy and detective stories) to identify similarities and differences in their media appearances, and in particular issues arising from the nature of film as predominantly visual and radio as exclusively aural. Richards also ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Studies in Popular Culture
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784991104
SKU
V9781784991104
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About Jeffrey Richards
Jeffrey Richards is Professor of Cultural History at Lancaster University -- .
Reviews for Cinema and Radio in Britain and America, 1920-60
A wide-ranging, informative, engagingly written, comparative media history. J.E. Smyth, University of Warwick, Twentieth Century British History, vol 23, no 3, , 01/09/2012, J.E. Smyth, University of Warwick, Twentieth Century British History, vol 23, no 3,, 1 September 2012|This fascinating book looks at the parallel histories of cinema and radion on both sides of the Atalntic . . . ... Read more