Vike Martina Plock

Bio

Vike Martina Plock is Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Exeter. She is the author of Joyce, Medicine, and Modernity (University Press of Florida, 2010) and Modernism, Fashion and Interwar Women Writers (Edinburgh University Press, 2017). Her next monograph, which deals with the history of the BBC German Service during WWII, is forthcoming in the Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media Series.

Contributions

Erika Mann, the BBC German Service, and Foreign-Language Broadcasting during WWII

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From the Print Journal

© 2019 Johns Hopkins University Press Foreign-language broadcasting projects in the United Kingdom and the United States faced momentous challenges during World War II, a time when totalitarian regimes had successfully appropriated wireless technology for propaganda purposes. As Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer would argue, countries such as Nazi Germany had turned radio into an agent of political repression by creating passively receptive audiences who uncritically absorbed fascist doctrines....

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