This volume reveals the complicated ways in which British and American media have influenced each other over the past two centuries. In doing so, it adds an important transatlantic dimension to media scholarship, while demonstrating the crucial and varied ways in which media have helped build an Anglo-American 'special relationship'.

Topical: investigates the relationship between Britain and the US through the Media

Introduction PART I: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES Sensational War Reporting and the Quality Press in Late Victorian Britain and America; D.Fulton Embracing Sporting News in England and America: Nineteenth-Century Cricket and Baseball News; M.McIntire Get the News! Get the News! Speed in Transatlantic Journalism, 1830-1914; J.H. Wiener PART II: ANGLO-AMERICAN PERSONALITIES Matt Morgan and Trans-Atlantic Illustrated Journalism, 1850-1890; C.Kent James Bryce and the Promise of the American Press, 1888-1921; J.D. Startt Leslie Howard and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.: Promoting the Anglo-American Alliance in Wartime, 1939-1943; F.M. Leventhal PART III: ANGLO-AMERICAN IDENTITIES The London Press and the American Civil War; M.de Nie World War I, the American Press, and the Construction of Anglo-American Identity; J.Bennett and M.Hampton Red on the Map: Empire and Americanization at the British Broadcasting Corporation, 1942 -1950; T.Hajkowski PART IV: AMERICAN IZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS? Keeping the news British: the BBC, British United Press and Reuters in the 1930s; S.Nicholas Americanization and its Limits: United Artists in the British Market in the 1930s and 1940s; P.Miskell 'Typically anti-American'? The Labour Movement, America and Broadcasting in Britain, from Beveridge to Pilkington, 1949-62; T.O'Malley Transatlantic Invasions or Common Culture? Modes of Cultural and Economic Exchange between the American and British Advertising Industries, 1951-1989; S.Schwarzkopf From High Culture to Hip Culture: Transforming the BBC Into BBC America; C.Becker