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Title Broadcast hysteria : Orson Welles's War of the worlds and the art of fake news / A. Brad Schwartz.
Publisher New York : Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2015]
Copyright ©2015
Description 337 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : facsimile, portraits, photographs ; 24 cm
Edition First edition.


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BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-317) and index.
Summary "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." -- From publisher's description.
Subject Welles, Orson, 1915-1985 -- Criticism and interpretation.
War of the worlds (Radio program)
Science fiction radio programs -- Psychological aspects.
Radio broadcasting -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Other title Orson Welles's War of the worlds and the art of fake news.
ISBN 9780809031610
0809031612