Programming national identity : the culture of radio in 1930s France / Joelle Neulander.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neulander, Joelle, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Radio programs--France--History--20th century.

Radio programs.

Radio broadcasting--Social aspects--France.

Radio broadcasting.

Radio broadcasting--Economic aspects--France.

Radio broadcasting--France--History--20th century.

Radio broadcasting policy--France--History--20th century.

Radio broadcasting policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 p.)

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Programming National Identity: The Culture of Radio in 1930's France explores the relationship between radio, gender and consumer culture in interwar France, showing how radio became a commercial and political medium integral to French households by the end of the 1930's, and explaining how and why French radio of the 1930's presented a normative view of the French family, even as various cultural forms and ideas flourished in film, theater, art and literature. While entertaining in nature and narrative in structure, French radio programming was grounded in politically and socially conservative

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I. Finding an Audience: Marketing to Families; II. Family Values and French Identity on the Radio; Conclusion; Appendix A: Educational Classes, Week of March 7, 1937; Appendix B: Lectures on Public Stations, Week of March 7, 1937; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8071-3674-3

OCLC:

528423468