Anglo-American Media Interactions, 1850-2000

JOEL WIENER is Emeritus Professor of History at City University of New York. MARK HAMPTON is Associate Professor of History at Lingnan University, Hong Kong.

Introduction * PART I: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES * Sensational War Reporting and the Quality Press in Late Victorian Britain and America–D.Fulton * Embracing Sporting News in England and America: Nineteenth-Century Cricket and Baseball News–M.McIntire * Get the News! Get the News! Speed in Transatlantic Journalism, 1830-1914–J.H. Wiener * PART II: ANGLO-AMERICAN PERSONALITIES * Matt Morgan and Trans-Atlantic Illustrated Journalism, 1850-1890–C.Kent * James Bryce and the Promise of the American Press, 1888-1921–J.D. Startt * Leslie Howard and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.: * Promoting the Anglo-American Alliance in Wartime, 1939-1943–F.M. Leventhal * PART III: ANGLO-AMERICAN IDENTITIES * The London Press and the American Civil War–M.de Nie * World War I, the American Press, and the Construction of Anglo-American Identity–J.Bennett and M.Hampton * Red on the Map: Empire and Americanization at the British Broadcasting Corporation, 1942 -1950–T.Hajkowski * PART IV: AMERICAN IZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS? * Keeping the news British: the BBC, British United Press and Reuters in the 1930s–S.Nicholas * Americanization and its Limits: United Artists in the British Market in the 1930s and 1940s–P.Miskell * ‘Typically anti-American’? The Labour Movement, America and Broadcasting in Britain, from Beveridge to Pilkington, 1949-62–T.O’Malley * Transatlantic Invasions or Common Culture? Modes of Cultural and Economic Exchange between the American and British Advertising Industries, 1951-1989–S.Schwarzkopf * From High Culture to Hip Culture: Transforming the BBC Into BBC America–C.Becker