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Author:
Whittington, Ian, author.
Title:
Writing the radio war : literature, politics and the BBC, 1939-1945 / Ian Whittington.
Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
vii, 220 pages ; 24 cm
Subject:
British Broadcasting Corporation--History.
British Broadcasting Corporation.
World War (1939-1945)
World War, 1939-1945--Great Britain--Radio broadcasting and the war.
World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Great Britain.
Radio broadcasting--History--Great Britain--History--20th century.
Radio broadcasting and war.
Social aspects.
Great Britain.
1939-1945
History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical reference and index.
Summary:
Wartime British writers took to the airwaves to reshape the nation and the Empire'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 reporting by Denis Johnston, and the emergence of a West Indian literary identity in the broadcasts of Una Marson, 'Writing the Radio War' explores how these writers capitalised on the particularities of the sonic medium to communicate their visions of wartime and postwar Britain and its empire. By combining literary aesthetics with the acoustics of space, accent, and dialect, writers created aural communities that at times converged, and at times contended, with official wartime versions of Britain and Britishness.
Series:
Edinburgh critical studies in war and culture
ISBN:
9781474413596
1474413595
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1012636955
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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