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Title: Emergency Broadcasting and 1930s American Radio by Edward D. Miller ISBN: 1-56639-993-9 Publisher: Temple Univ Press Pub. Date: December, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Uncanny Pleasures: Review of Miller's Emergency Broadcasting
Comment: Informed, stylishly written, and fun to read, Edward D. Miller's book Emergency Broadcasting is a must -- especially for anyone interested in a new take on the history of American radio.
Miller skillfully connects radio's "intimate otherness" to various manifestations of the Uncanny (including Hamlet's Ghost, the delusions of paranoids and schizophrenics, and the voices of presidents). He does a close reading of three major broadcasting events of the '30s -- the reporting of the Hindenberg disaster; President Roosevelt's "Fireside Chats"; and Orson Welles's famous "War of the Worlds" broadcasts -- to show how radio both reassures and frightens the listener. A reinterpretation of the classical Echo and Narcissus myth in another chapter stretches his analogy about vocal disembodiment a bit too far into the ether. But Miller returns to earth to show the relevance of the myth to today's media landscape.
The book concludes with a chapter drawing parallels between 1930s American radio and the Internet, which will, I'm sure, surprise and delight many students as well as critics of "the virtual community."
-- Reviewed by Sumitra Mukerji
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Title: Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America by Jesse Walker ISBN: 0814793819 Publisher: New York University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness by Virginia Postrel ISBN: 0060186321 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken ISBN: 0525947647 Publisher: E P Dutton Pub. Date: 29 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Hello World: A Life in Ham Radio by Danny Gregory, Paul Sahre ISBN: 156898281X Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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