Michele Hilmes
I recently retired from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where I taught Media and Cultural Studies for twenty-two years. Most of my research and publication has centered around media history, with an emphasis on radio and sound studies and on transnational media flows.
My books include Radio Voices: American Broadcasting 1922-1952 (1997), Network Nations: A Transnational History of British and American Broadcasting (2011), Only Connect: A Cultural History of Broadcasting in the United States (4th edition, 2013), Hollywood and Broadcasting (1990), and most recently Radio’s New Wave: Global Sound in the Digital Era (2013), co-edited with Jason Loviglio (University of Maryland-Baltimore County). Other edited volumes include NBC: America's Network (2007), The Television History Book (2003), and The Radio Reader (2001), co-edited with Jason Loviglio. I have also published many journal articles and book chapters; see my CV.
With Dr. Mia Lingren (Monash University) I am co-editor of The Radio Journal: International Studies in Radio and Audio Media, a journal publishing scholarly work and reviews on radio and sound media.
I was lucky enough to spend 2013-14 as a Fulbright Research Scholar at the University of Nottingham, England, working on the subject of British/American television co-production. And, recently, I was honored to be the recipient of the University of Texas-Austin’s Wayne Danielson Award for outstanding contributions to the field of communication study.
My current projects include:
-- a forthcoming co-edited volume, Contemporary Transatlantic Television Drama, with Dr. Roberta Pearson (University of Nottingham) and Dr. Matt Hills (University of Aberystwyth) to be published in 2017 by Oxford University Press;
-- a history of the American radio feature, from Corwin to Serial, in the research stage;
-- and continuing to work with the Radio Preservation Task Force, a joint project of the Library of Congress and the National Recording Preservation Board, to preserve, protect, and promote the world's sound heritage.
My books include Radio Voices: American Broadcasting 1922-1952 (1997), Network Nations: A Transnational History of British and American Broadcasting (2011), Only Connect: A Cultural History of Broadcasting in the United States (4th edition, 2013), Hollywood and Broadcasting (1990), and most recently Radio’s New Wave: Global Sound in the Digital Era (2013), co-edited with Jason Loviglio (University of Maryland-Baltimore County). Other edited volumes include NBC: America's Network (2007), The Television History Book (2003), and The Radio Reader (2001), co-edited with Jason Loviglio. I have also published many journal articles and book chapters; see my CV.
With Dr. Mia Lingren (Monash University) I am co-editor of The Radio Journal: International Studies in Radio and Audio Media, a journal publishing scholarly work and reviews on radio and sound media.
I was lucky enough to spend 2013-14 as a Fulbright Research Scholar at the University of Nottingham, England, working on the subject of British/American television co-production. And, recently, I was honored to be the recipient of the University of Texas-Austin’s Wayne Danielson Award for outstanding contributions to the field of communication study.
My current projects include:
-- a forthcoming co-edited volume, Contemporary Transatlantic Television Drama, with Dr. Roberta Pearson (University of Nottingham) and Dr. Matt Hills (University of Aberystwyth) to be published in 2017 by Oxford University Press;
-- a history of the American radio feature, from Corwin to Serial, in the research stage;
-- and continuing to work with the Radio Preservation Task Force, a joint project of the Library of Congress and the National Recording Preservation Board, to preserve, protect, and promote the world's sound heritage.
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An oldie, from Tino Balio's anthology Hollywood in the Age of Television (Unwin Hyman 1990).
My contribution to this excellent collection of original essays on propaganda theory, history, and practice. Focuses on British and American uses of radio for propaganda during World War II, and the impact of that relationship on the structures of broadcast media employed in the international projection of national interests and culture, otherwise known as "external broadcasting."
Published in Planet Television. Eds. Lisa Parks and Shanti Kumar. New York University Press, 2003.
Published in Media Industries Journal, 1:2, Fall 2014.
Published in Blackwell’s History of American Film, ed.
Cynthia A. Lucia et al., 2010.
show clearly how notions of ‘quality’ and public service were both gendered and linked to notions of national identity, and, conversely, how a popular yet ‘feminine’ and ‘American’ form like the domestic serial drama challenged those important cornerstones of the BBC ethos.
Media, Culture & Society Vol. 29(1): 5–29
Published in Cinema Journal 45:1, Fall 2005
An oldie, from Tino Balio's anthology Hollywood in the Age of Television (Unwin Hyman 1990).
My contribution to this excellent collection of original essays on propaganda theory, history, and practice. Focuses on British and American uses of radio for propaganda during World War II, and the impact of that relationship on the structures of broadcast media employed in the international projection of national interests and culture, otherwise known as "external broadcasting."
Published in Planet Television. Eds. Lisa Parks and Shanti Kumar. New York University Press, 2003.
Published in Media Industries Journal, 1:2, Fall 2014.
Published in Blackwell’s History of American Film, ed.
Cynthia A. Lucia et al., 2010.
show clearly how notions of ‘quality’ and public service were both gendered and linked to notions of national identity, and, conversely, how a popular yet ‘feminine’ and ‘American’ form like the domestic serial drama challenged those important cornerstones of the BBC ethos.
Media, Culture & Society Vol. 29(1): 5–29
Published in Cinema Journal 45:1, Fall 2005