As part of a forthcoming history of the radio feature Michele Hilmes shares her discovery of the supposedly lost Langston Hughes radio play, "The Man Who Went to War."
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Tags: Alan Lomax, ballad opera, BBC, D.G. Bridson, Langston Hughes, Library of Congress, media history, media studies, Michel Foucault, Network Nations, Norman Corwin, Paul Robeson, radio, Radio Feature, Radio Preservation Task Force, soundwork, The Man Who Went to War, Transatlantic Call, World War II
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Through a case study of the British ITV series "Strange Report" (1969-70), Jonathan Bignell exhibits how Michele Hilmes' example has taught him that when we look closely at the detail of history, there are always more complex and more interesting things to discover.
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Tags: 1960s, British television, co-production, globalization, ITV, Michele Hilmes, NBC, Network Nations, Strange Report, television, transnational media
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Michael Curtin contributes the eighth post in our "Honoring Hilmes" series, saluting Michele Hilmes on her sterling leadership and professionalism as well as her pioneering intellectual contributions to the media studies field.
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Tags: collegiality, cultural history, globalization, Hollywood and Broadcasting, media studies, mentorship, Michele Hilmes, Network Nations, Only Connect, radio voices, synergy
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Josh Shepperd provides Part 1 of 2 to his final entry in the "On (the) Wisconsin Discourses" series with an examination of Michele Hilmes' contributions to discursive analysis.
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Tags: Birmingham School, communication arts, consumer activism, cultural theory, Discourse, discursive analysis, Douglas Gomery, drift literacy, Habermas, hegemony, historiography, John Fiske, Julie D'Acci, madison mafia, Media and Cultural Studies, media literacy, media studies, Michele Hilmes, Network Nations, public, public sphere, publics, radio voices, Richard Hoggart, sound studies, Stuart Hall, transnational
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Continuing our "Honoring Hilmes" series, Jason Jacobs describes his use of Michele Hilmes’ work in his career, demonstrating her unique capacity to work across national borders both in her thinking and interpersonally.
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Tags: BBC, broadcasting, Charles Barr, Charlotte Brunsdon, Hollywood and Broadcasting, media history, media studies, Michele Hilmes, NBC, Network Nations, television drama, television history, transnationalism
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