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Exploring the relationship between the growth of global media and Cold War tensions and resolutions

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments   xi
Abbreviations   xiii

Introduction   1
PART 1: THE FIRST STRAND
1. "A Facet of East-West Problems"   17
2. "A Western Mind Would Consider This Kind of Spectacle as Stupid"   31
3. "The Key to Many of These Countries Is Not the Mud Hut Population"   43
4. "A Group of Angry Young Intellectuals"   61

PART 2: THE SECOND STRAND
5. "We Can Give the World a Vision of America"   79
6. "A Record of Some Kind in the History of International Communication"   94
7. "Something of That Sense of World Citizenship"   118
8. "A New Idea Capable of Uniting the Thoughts of People All Over the Earth"   139
Epilogue: "To Speak with a Single Voice Abroad"   157

Notes   175
Selected Bibliography   207
Index   213

Illustrations follow pages 76 and 138

About the Author

James Schwoch is an associate professor of communication studies at Northwestern University and the coeditor, with Mimi White, of Questions of Method in Cultural Studies.

Reviews

"A wholly original, well-researched, and superbly written account of the development of global television set within the intertwined contexts of American foreign policy, psychological warfare, and information diplomacy. Stimulating and enjoyable." John T. Caldwell, author of Production Culture: Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film and Television "The sheer joy that Schwoch takes in hauling curiosities out of the archives is contagious. The result provides serious food for thought in considering current U.S. policy about international media and goodwill building." John Durham Peters, author of Courting the Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition