Anglo-American Media Connection

Name: Anglo-American Media Connection
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ISBN: 9780198715221

ISBN-10: 0198715226

ISBN-13: 9780198715221

Edition: 1999

Authors: Jeremy Tunstall, David Machin

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The Anglo-American media constitute one of the world's most familiar, and least analysed, alliances. For the United States media, this close connection with Britain is one of several unambiguous American international media trading advantages. For Britain the relationship is more ambiguous: in news and factual media Britain can realistically see itself as the world media number two, but across the broad range of entertainment Britain is closer to being a colonial dependency of Hollywood. Is Britain a Trojan Horse for American media in Europe? No more so than the other larger European countries which, like Britain, combine media nationalism with dependence on Hollywood. Margaret Thatcher,…

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List price: $62.50
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/13/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Introduction



Britain and Other American Media Advantages



The USA as Popular Culture Number One



Brits on the Anglo-American team



Hollywood Genre Menu



Multiplication of Video Channels and Programming



Washington as Media Policy Umpire and Commercial Booster



Bulking up for Digital: the Vertical Imperative



Britain as Media Number Two to the USA



Britain as Number Two in the Anglo-American Media



World News Duopoly



Public Service Broadcasting



British Popular Music and the BBC



Book Publishing: US-UK Merger



Advertising Agencies



Britain as Film, Television and Press Colony



Hollywood and British Media Subordination



Non-Citizen Press Moguls: Feuds and Foreign Policy



British Broadcasting Containment and Competition



Mrs Thatcher's Farewell Waive, Skys Satellite and Cable Monopoly



Will a British BBC Survive Until 2022?


IV: Europe adds Deregulation to Media Nationalism



France and the Germany Copy Italian Accident: Britain Follows Later



Television Without Frontiers: Brussels Misreads US Satellites and British Privatization



A Policy for Film Auteurs, But None for Hollywood



Sports Media: Advantage Europe, Game USA



Smaller Countries: Media Nationalism Multiplied


V: Conclusions



A Win for US Media, Not USA



Britain's Anglo-American Meda Mirage



Towards Euro- and Anglo-American Media


Bibliography


Index