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The Sirens of Wartime Radio and How the American Print Media Presented Them
The Stories, the Intrigue, and the Evolving Coverage of Their Legacies
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2020
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The Sirens of Wartime Radio and How the American Print Media Presented Them: The Stories, the Intrigue, and the Evolving Coverage of Their Legacies analyzes press coverage from the American print media that helped construct popular images of Tokyo Rose, Axis Sally, Seoul City Sue, and Hanoi Hannah. Coverage of these “radio sirens” essentially constructed and defined these women’s legacies for an American audience. Scott A. Morton examines newspaper and magazine coverage from the periods of each broadcaster, and in doing so, analyzes four primary research inquires. Morton discusses how American newspapers and magazines portrayed each woman to American readers, how the American mass media’s portrayal of them evolved overtime from the mid-1940s through the present, the ways in which the American mass media responded to these five female propagandists—either directly or indirectly—through print, radio, and visual media, and how the legacy of each woman has been kept alive in popular culture in the decades since their last broadcasts. Morton argues that for the most part, coverage of the sirens was borne out of fascination and aversion, fascination stemming from the novelty of women acting as high-profile agents of enemy propaganda organizations and aversion stemming from the potential power they had over U.S. servicemen and the fact that they were viewed as traitors to the U.S. Scholars of media studies, history, and international relations will find this book particularly useful.
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Copyright year
2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-0145-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-0146-9
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
187
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Contents No access
List of Abbreviations No access
Acknowledgments No access
Preface No access
1 Introduction No access Pages 1 - 14
2 The Power of Radio and Femme Fatales No access Pages 15 - 28
3 The Siren of Radio Tokyo No access Pages 29 - 70
4 The Siren of Radio Rome No access Pages 71 - 80
5 The Siren of Radio Berlin No access Pages 81 - 104
6 The Siren of Radio Pyongyang No access Pages 105 - 128
7 The Siren of Radio Hanoi No access Pages 129 - 162
8 Conclusion No access Pages 163 - 172
References No access Pages 173 - 178
Index No access Pages 179 - 186
About the Author No access Pages 187 - 187
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