Description
Product ID: | 9780719079443 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Studies in Popular Culture |
Title: | The BBC and National Identity in Britain, 1922–53 |
Authors: | Author: Thomas Hajkowski |
Page Count: | 264 |
Subjects: | Television, Television, Social and cultural history, Social & cultural history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1945 to c 1960 |
Description: | This book is the first study of how the BBC, through radio, tried to represent what it meant to be British. The book combines an examination of the BBC''s desire to construct a strong, unitary sense of Britishness (through empire and the monarchy) with a thorough consideration of the broadcasting in the non-English parts of the United Kingdom. This book is the first study of how the BBC, through radio, tried to represent what it meant to be British. The book combines an examination of the BBC's desire to construct a strong, unitary sense of Britishness (through empire and the monarchy) with a thorough consideration of the broadcasting in the non-English parts of the United Kingdom. -- . |
Imprint Name: | Manchester University Press |
Publisher Name: | Manchester University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2010-06-01 |