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.

• 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