Anglo-American Media Interactions, 1850–2000

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: Anglo-American Media Interactions, 1850–2000....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Sensational War Reporting and the Quality Press in Late Victorian Britain and America....Pages 11-31
Embracing Sporting News in England and America: Nineteenth-century Cricket and Baseball News....Pages 32-47
“Get the News! Get the News!” — Speed in Transatlantic Journalism, 1830–1914....Pages 48-66
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
Matt Morgan and Transatlantic Illustrated Journalism, 1850–90....Pages 69-92
James Bryce and the Promise of the American Press, 1888–1921....Pages 93-107
Leslie Howard and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.: Promoting the Anglo-American Alliance in Wartime, 1939–43....Pages 108-126
Front Matter....Pages 127-127
The London Press and the American Civil War....Pages 129-154
World War I and the Anglo-American Imagined Community: Civilization vs. Barbarism in British Propaganda and American Newspapers....Pages 155-175
Red on the Map: Empire and Americanization at the BBC, 1942–50....Pages 176-191
Front Matter....Pages 193-193
Keeping the News British: the BBC, British United Press and Reuters in the 1930s....Pages 195-214
Americanization and its Limits: United Artists in the British Market in the 1930s and 1940s....Pages 215-233
“Typically Anti-American”? The Labour Movement, America and Broadcasting in Britain, from Beveridge to Pilkington, 1949–62....Pages 234-253
Transatlantic Invasions or Common Culture? Modes of Cultural and Economic Exchange between the American and the British Advertising Industries, 1945–2000....Pages 254-274
From High Culture to Hip Culture: Transforming the BBC into BBC America....Pages 275-294
Back Matter....Pages 295-309