Conservative Convergence

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The Daily Mail and the Making of Modern Media

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Conservative Convergence highlights and examines the integral role of British newspapers in the development of media technologies across the 20th century, from early radio to commercial television, from newsreels to educational filmstrips.The newspaper today is an intermedial enterprise, circulating news and generating revenues through its websites, videos, podcasts, and events. This is not a new phenomenon. In foregrounding the work of the Daily Mail since its establishment in 1896, Tom Rice reveals how conservative newspapers pioneered, produced, and progressively adopted new technological innovations and new forms of media to boost their readership and revenue and to consolidate, project, and extend their own broadly conservative values. Rice uncovers surprising episodes across the 20th century, whether exploring early film screenings through the Daily Mail cinema van, the journey of the Daily Mail broadcasting yacht to seaside towns in the 1920s, or the newspaper’s foray into cable television in the 1990s. This expansive, often messy, history positions the newspaper beyond the printed page—reaching audiences in schools, exhibitions, and overseas through loudspeakers, election screens, or 16mm projectors—and, through extensive archival research, invites us to reexamine how these related media technologies came to be. In illuminating the historical connections between the Daily Mail and new forms of media, Conservative Convergence ultimately charts the emergence, evolution, and endurance of Britain’s modern media system.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-09-03
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor272
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9798765188217

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List of Illustrations AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Hold the Big Screen: Selling Newspapers through Film, 1896-1922 2. Radio, Public Broadcasting and the Sounds of the Daily Mail, 1920-1932 3. Mobile Media: Wireless, Film, and the Transatlantic Circulation of News, 1920-19324. The Talkie Newspaper: The Daily Mail, British Movietone News, and the Rise of Fascism, 1929-1939 5. Amateur Film for the Ideal Home: New Media, Old Values, 1920-19396. Learn All About It: The Daily Mail, Filmstrips, and Post-War Visual Education, 1946-19557. Conservative with a Small Screen: The Daily Mail and Commercial Television, 1955-20008. How to do Business on Film: The British Newspaper and Portable Film, 1960-2000And Finally…Bibliography Index

Conservative Convergence shows how the U.K.’s Daily Mail has always deployed other media to engage its readers. For over a century, from its origins in 1896, Britain’s highest-circulation paper has gone “beyond the newspaper” with a “media ensemble” of film, radio, television—and more! Tom Rice redefines the history of Fleet Street by focusing on the paper’s audio-visual tactics, rather than its journalism and politics. In Harmsworth’s Daily Mail, Rice spotlights the historical precedent for news barons like Murdoch and Berlusconi, the U.K. peer of America’s Wm. R. Hearst, who tapped the power of moving pictures and broadcasting to transform the printed page into “a coordination of media forms and technologies.”