LEADER 00000cam a2200673 i 4500 001 ocn895030504 003 OCoLC 005 20160412023914.0 008 141107s2015 nyuaf b 001 0 eng 010 2014040510 019 889165124|a908282665|a910654678|a935949900 020 0809031612|q(hardcover) 020 9780809031610|q(hardcover) 020 |z9780809031634|q(e-book) 040 DLC|beng|erda|cDLC|dIG#|dYDXCP|dBTCTA|dBDX|dJAI|dABG|dCDX |dUOK|dIH9|dLF3|dVP@|dILM|dMOF|dINR|dIUL|dNDS|dOCLCQ 042 pcc 043 n-us--- 049 RIDM 050 00 PN1991.77.W3|bS48 2015 082 00 791.44/72|223 090 PN1991.77.W3|bS48 2015 100 1 Schwartz, A. Brad|q(Austin Bradley),|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/names/no2013111594|eauthor. 245 10 Broadcast hysteria :|bOrson Welles's War of the Worlds and the art of fake news /|cA. Brad Schwartz. 250 First edition. 264 1 New York :|bHill and Wang, A division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux,|c2015. 264 4 |c©2015 300 337 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :|billustrations ; |c24 cm 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-317) and index. 505 0 Introduction -- Journalism and showmanship -- Winged Mercury -- Martians of the mind's eye -- Yours in terror - - Public frightener no. 1 -- Air racketeers -- The public interest -- The story of the century -- A matter of psychology -- The horror man -- Conclusion. 520 On the evening of October 30, 1938, radio listeners across the United States heard a startling report of a meteor strike in the New Jersey countryside. With sirens blaring in the background, announcers in the field described mysterious creatures, terrifying war machines, and thick clouds of poison gas moving toward New York City. As the invading force approached Manhattan, some listeners sat transfixed, while others ran to alert neighbors or to call the police. Some even fled their homes. But the hair- raising broadcast was not a real news bulletin-it was Orson Welles's adaptation of the H.G. Wells classic The War of the Worlds. In Broadcast Hysteria, A. Brad Schwartz boldly retells the story of Welles's famed radio play and its impact. Did it really spawn a "wave of mass hysteria," as The New York Times reported? Schwartz is the first to examine the hundreds of letters sent to Orson Welles himself in the days after the broadcast, and his findings challenge the conventional wisdom. Few listeners believed an actual attack was under way. But even so, Schwartz shows that Welles's broadcast became a major scandal, prompting a different kind of mass panic as Americans debated the bewitching power of the radio and the country's vulnerability in a time of crisis. When the debate was over, American broadcasting had changed for good, but not for the better. As Schwartz tells this story, we observe how an atmosphere of natural disaster and impending war permitted broadcasters to create shared live national experiences for the first time. We follow Orson Welles's rise to fame and watch his manic energy and artistic genius at work in the play's hurried yet innovative production. And we trace the present-day popularity of "fake news" back to its source in Welles's show and its many imitators. 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