Entangled Media Histories: A Response

Hilmes, Michele

doi:10.1080/13688804.2016.1270753

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“…Michele Hilmes maintained that a biographical, ‘ground level’ perspective of broadcasting history is a useful approach to take, to re-contextualise the powerful undercurrents of transnational systems (Hilmes, 2017). Biography has proven useful in identifying the macro dynamics of BBC-led broadcasting networks; these women’s experiences subsequently reveal new perspectives of the dominant dynamics, circulations, and flows between the BBC and its dominion progeny between the 1950s and 1970s.…”

Section: Approaching Women At the Abcmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sheilas and the Beeb: How the BBC provided liberating pathways for ABC women in the early years of television

Andrews

2022

Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Te

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This article discusses the important role the BBC played in advancing the careers of ABC women in the post-war era. Adopting an integrated, transnational approach, it revisualises the British broadcasting empire from a dominion perspective, a gendered perspective. This research follows ABC television producers as they undertook transformative, transnational excursions and recognises the necessary mobility, flexibility and ingenuity women activated in order to succeed. It identifies how they exploited the imbalanced dominion dynamic and strategically used their BBC experiences to counteract the compromising gender constraints of their local production environments.

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Section: Approaching Women At the Abcmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sheilas and the Beeb: How the BBC provided liberating pathways for ABC women in the early years of television

Andrews

2022

Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Te

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“…“Look for key individuals, people whose careers make them “cultural translators” as they actively move from one national setting to another,” Michelle Hilmes suggests. “Though it might seem to risk enforcing the ‘great man’ mode of history, in fact most of the time such individuals are themselves rather obscure” (Hilmes, , 142‐3). In the early days of the PBS, BBC officials (who seem to have been all male) were brought to Jerusalem to help launch and then direct the station.…”

Section: Entangled Media Histories: Crossing Borders and Media Formsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Hilmes has also proposed that historians trace the histories of “specific texts that have been particularly significant in crossing media platforms and national contexts”, to identify how, where, and when these texts (or “texts”) traveled and to analyze how they were adopted and adapted (Hilmes, ,p. 143).…”

Section: Entangled Media Histories: Crossing Borders and Media Formsmentioning

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Can imperial radio be transnational? British‐affiliated Arabic radio broadcasting in the interwar period

Stanton

2020

History Compass

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This media history article uses the development of the British Broadcasting Corporation's Arabic radio broadcasting service in 1938 as a case study for considering the intersections and overlaps between transnationalism and imperialism in the early mid-20th century. Archival evidence suggests that the British Broadcasting Corporation's Arabic broadcasting service, which was based in London, relied for human resources, programming, and other forms of expertise on the Palestine Broadcasting Service in Jerusalem and the Egyptian State Broadcasting Service in Cairo-as well as on British government officials in those countries. Yet scholarly literature on these stations tends to treat them as free-standing institutions with minimal interaction. How might recent scholarship on entangled media histories productively problematize the treatment of radio histories as institutional histories within nation-state boundaries? How might it capture both the transnational and the colonial or imperial connections of these stations? It closes by suggesting how this case study might be useful for scholars working in other arenas.

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“…Participants in EMHIS are aware of the challenges of ‘doing’ transborder history, led by sources and scholarship in diverse languages. Digital resources also tend to be created and funded nationally (Cronqvist and Hilgert, 2017: 130–141; Hilmes, 2017: 142–144; Griffen-Foley, 2017: 145–147), 46 although Europeana (which has, perhaps inevitably, a complex governance model) poses a possible model for the Asia Pacific region (Ayres, 2015). 47 As the editors of History Australia noted, ‘European institutions have been at the forefront of scholarly digitisation for some time, reflecting both the region’s strong sense of the global importance of its history and culture and its commitment to transnational cooperation within its borders and beyond’ (Akami et al, 2014: 4).…”

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Inaugural KS Inglis address: making Australian media history

Griffen‐Foley

2018

Media International Australia

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This address considers the development of media history as a field of research in Australia. It takes the form of a historiographical excursion, beginning with a focus on the press, and then extending to broadcasting, and touching on the work of KS Inglis as a through line. After considering what I identify as a historiographical blossoming since the 1980s, I extend my gaze to the tools and institutions for media history that have emerged, including online resources, a conference series and a research centre. Finally, I use my own 1990s research into the Packer empire to illustrate how some of the techniques for doing media history have changed in the past 20 years. In doing so, I reflect on both the benefits, and the limitations, of digital tools and techniques for Australian media historians.

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Entangled Media Histories: A Response

Cited by 12 publications

References 2 publications

Sheilas and the Beeb: How the BBC provided liberating pathways for ABC women in the early years of television

Sheilas and the Beeb: How the BBC provided liberating pathways for ABC women in the early years of television

Can imperial radio be transnational? British‐affiliated Arabic radio broadcasting in the interwar period

Inaugural KS Inglis address: making Australian media history

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