《Radio to War》首次全面深入地介绍了美国国内电台在第二次世界大战期间的作用。这项研究令人信服地表明，无线电广播在政府宣传和战时美国更广泛的文化和政治变革中发挥了关键作用。格尔德·霍顿（Gerd Horten）引人入胜的叙述认为，没有一种媒体能比广播更有效地融合娱乐、宣传和广告。因此，美国战时的无线电宣传强调了对美国未来日益企业化和私有化的愿景，对战争年代和战后时代产生了重要影响。通过对广播新闻节目、政府宣传节目、广告、肥皂剧和喜剧节目的研究，霍顿将战时广播宣传定位于从大萧条时期对大企业的怨恨向战后时期的消费者和企业文化的关键转变。
Radio Goes to War: The Cultural Politics of Propaganda during World War II
Radio Goes to War is the first comprehensive and in-depth look at the role of domestic radio in the United States during the Second World War. As this study convincingly demonstrates, radio broadcasting played a crucial role both in government propaganda and within the context of the broader cultural and political transformations of wartime America. Gerd Horten’s absorbing narrative argues that no medium merged entertainment, propaganda, and advertising more effectively than radio. As a result, America’s wartime radio propaganda emphasized an increasingly corporate and privatized vision of America’s future, with important repercussions for the war years and the postwar era. Examining radio news programs, government propaganda shows, advertising, soap operas, and comedy programs, Horten situates radio wartime propaganda in the key shift from a Depression-era resentment of big business to the consumer and corporate culture of the postwar period.
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