The sirens of wartime radio: an analysis of the media coverage of five legendary female propaganda broadcasters

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dc.contributorLamme, Margot Opdycke
dc.contributorCooper, Caryl A.
dc.contributorPeacock, Margaret
dc.contributorGower, Karla K.
dc.contributorZhou, Shuhua
dc.contributor.advisorLamme, Margot Opdycke
dc.contributor.advisorCooper, Caryl A.
dc.contributor.authorMorton, Scott Ashley
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Alabama Tuscaloosa
dc.date.accessioned2017-07-28T14:12:39Z
dc.date.available2017-07-28T14:12:39Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.descriptionElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US
dc.description.abstractThis study seeks to understand how the media constructed the images of Tokyo Rose, Axis Sally, Seoul City Sue, and Hanoi Hannah, and to shed more light on why they are remembered more than their male counterparts. In exploring how the American media covered them, it was found that it essentially constructed the images that defined these women’s legacies. As such, the current study explores how the press covered them. In doing so, the study analyzes four primary research inquiries. First, the study seeks to analyze how American newspapers and magazines portrayed each woman to American readers. Secondly, this study considers how the American mass media’s portrayal of these women evolved over time from the mid 1940s through the present. Third, the study explores how press coverage of male radio propagandists differed from the five female propagandists. The fourth inquiry considered in this study consists of ways in which the American mass media responded to these five female propagandists either directly or indirectly through print, radio, and visual media. Lastly the study analyzes how each of these women have been kept alive in popular culture over the ensuing decades since their last broadcasts. For the most part, the print media covered these women out of fascination and aversion. Fascination came from the novelty of having women acting as high profile agents of enemy propaganda organizations in a time when women were mostly homemakers and caretakers. Aversion came from the potential power they had over U.S. servicemen and the fact that they were viewed as traitors to the U.S. Furthermore, they were femme fatales, radio sirens whose main mission was to demoralize servicemen and hamper the Allied mission to defeat the Axis Powers.en_US
dc.format.extent260 p.
dc.format.mediumelectronic
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.otheru0015_0000001_0002660
dc.identifier.otherMorton_alatus_0004D_13068
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir.ua.edu/handle/123456789/3256
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Alabama Libraries
dc.relation.hasversionborn digital
dc.relation.ispartofThe University of Alabama Electronic Theses and Dissertations
dc.relation.ispartofThe University of Alabama Libraries Digital Collections
dc.rightsAll rights reserved by the author unless otherwise indicated.en_US
dc.subjectCommunication
dc.titleThe sirens of wartime radio: an analysis of the media coverage of five legendary female propaganda broadcastersen_US
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etdms.degree.departmentUniversity of Alabama. College of Communication and Information Sciences
etdms.degree.disciplineCommunication & Information Sciences
etdms.degree.grantorThe University of Alabama
etdms.degree.leveldoctoral
etdms.degree.namePh.D.
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