The Anglo-American Media Connection

by Tunstall, Jeremy; MacHin, David

• ISBN13: 9780198715221
• ISBN10: 0198715226
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-13
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The Anglo-American media constitute one of the world's most familiar, and least analysed, alliances. Spanning a broad range from advertising to publishing, pop music and pornography, this book addresses this alliance and its future.

Author Biography

Jeremy Tunstall is Professor of Sociology at City University, London. He is the author of numerous books including Media Mogules (with Michael Palmer, 1991), Television Producers (1993), and Newspaper Power (1996).

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	xiv
Introduction	1	(12)
PART I Britain and Other American Media Advantages
The USA as Popular Culture Number One	13	(3)
Brits on the Anglo-American team	16	(6)
Hollywood Genre Menu	22	(10)
Multiplication of Video Channels and Programming	32	(8)
Washington as Media Policy Umpire and Commercial Booster	40	(13)
Bulking up for Digital: The Vertical Imperative	53	(18)
Part II Britain as Media Number Two to the USA
Britain as Number Two in the Anglo-American Media	71	(6)
World News Duopoly	77	(14)
Public Service Broadcasting	91	(6)
British Popular Music and the BBC	97	(8)
Book Publishing: US-UK Merger	105	(8)
Advertising Agencies	113	(16)
PART III Britain as Film, Television, and Press Colony
Hollywood and British Media Subordination	129	(11)
Non-citizen Press Moguls: Feuds and Foreign Policy	140	(12)
British Broadcasting Containment and Competition	152	(10)
Mrs Thatcher's Farewell Waive, Sky's Satellite and Cable Monopoly	162	(12)
Will a British BBC Survive until 2022?	174	(15)
PART IV Europe Adds Deregulation of Media Nationalism
France and Germany Copy Italian Accident: Britain Follows Later	189	(11)
Television without Frontiers: Brussels Misreads US Satellites and British Privatization	200	(15)
A Policy for Film Auteurs, but None for Hollywood	215	(13)
Sports Media: Advantage Europe, Game USA	228	(19)
Smaller Countries: Media Nationalism Multiplied	247	(12)
PART V Conclusions
A Win for US Media, not USA	259	(5)
Britain's Anglo-American Media Mirage	264	(5)
Towards Euro-and Anglo-American Media	269	(7)
Select Bibliography	276	(5)
Index	281