Anglo-American Media Interactions, 1850-2000

CHRISTINE BECKER Assistant Professor, Department of Film, Television, and Theatre, the University of Notre Dame, USA JESSICA BENNETT Postgraduate in Public Administration, the University of Maryland University College Europe MICHAEL DE NIE Assistant Professor of History, the University of West Georgia, USA RICHARD FULTON Vice President for Instruction, Whatcom Community College, Washington, USA THOMAS HAJKOWSKI Assistant Professor of History, College Misericordia in Dallas, Pennsylvania, USA MARK HAMPTON Associate Professor of History, Lingnan University in Hong Kong, China CHRISTOPHER KENT Professor of History, the University of Saskatchewan, Canada FRED LEVENTHAL Professor Emeritus of History, Boston University, USA MATT MCINTIRE Ph.D graduate, the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center, USA PETER MISKELL Lecturer in Business History, the University of Reading, UK SIAN NICHOLAS Senior Lecturer in History, the University of Wales Aberystwyth, UK TOM O'MALLEY Professor of Media Studies, the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK STEFAM SCHWARZKOPF Lecturer in Marketing, Queen Mary College, University of London, UK JAMES D. STARTT Senior Research Professor in History, Valparaiso University, USA JOEL H. WIENER Professor Emeritus of History, The City University of New York, USA

This volume reveals the complicated ways in which British and American media have influenced each other over the past two centuries. In doing so, it adds an important transatlantic dimension to media scholarship, while demonstrating the crucial and varied ways in which media have helped build an Anglo-American 'special relationship'.This volume reveals the complicated ways in which British and American media have influenced each other over the past two centuries. In doing so, it adds an important transatlantic dimension to media scholarship, while demonstrating the crucial and varied ways in which media have helped build an Anglo-American 'special relationship'.