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- Title
This is War! Network Radio and World War II Propaganda in America.
- Authors
Spiller, James
- Abstract
War-boosting radio programs during the Second World War had an effective propaganda model in the early 1942 series "This is War!" Proposed by the federal Office of Facts and Figures and sponsored by all four networks, it was the first dramatic and didactic series or, America's war effort, and it wove dry statistics on military production and conscription into moving tales of global war and national mobilization. By using conventional discourse about gender, pressing mildly for racial tolerance, and casting the United States as the bulwark of an international community of liberal nations, "This is War!" employed rhetoric subsequently used in other wartime radio, film, and print media campaigns.
- Subjects
UNITED States; RADIO programs; WORLD War II; RADIO broadcasting &; war; RADIO in propaganda; UNITED States armed forces
- Publication
Journal of Radio Studies, 2004, Vol 11, Issue 1, p55
- ISSN
1095-5046
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1207/s15506843jrs1101_6