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Waging The war of the worlds : a history of the 1938 radio broadcast and resulting panic, including the original script / John Gosling ; radio script by Howard Koch.

Title
  1. Waging The war of the worlds : a history of the 1938 radio broadcast and resulting panic, including the original script / John Gosling ; radio script by Howard Koch.
Published by
  1. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2009.
Author
  1. Gosling, John, 1967-

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Additional authors
  1. Koch, Howard.
Description
  1. x, 237 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
Summary
  1. "This book examines the historic broadcast in-depth. Chapters also look at later broadcasts in the United States, Latin America, Brazil and Portugal, and address the likelihood that a similar panic could happen again. The original script of the 1938 The War of the Worlds radio broadcast, written by Howard Koch, is included"--Provided by publisher.
Subject
  1. Radio audiences
  2. Science fiction radio programs > Psychological aspects
  3. War of the worlds (Radio program)
  4. Welles, Orson, 1915-1985 > Criticism and interpretation
Contents
  1. God of war : a brief history of Mars in the mind of man -- Mars attacks : H.G. Wells declares war -- Orson Welles : larger than life -- Preparing to end the world : the making of the broadcast -- War : 8 p.m., October 30, 1938 -- "It's just a radio show" : dispatches from the front lines -- The fog of war : what really happened? -- Smoke and mirrors : why the panic? -- Animosities and rapprochements : the aftermath of war -- The Latin American front : the Martians return -- SOS from Caratinga : Brazil battles the Martians -- The European theater of operations : paralysis in Portugal -- "It's not a meteor, Henry" : the second American campaign -- Mars 2, Brazil 0 : the siege of São Luís -- Peril in Providence : the last American campaign -- The final campaigns : Portugal 1988 and 1998 -- Remembering 1938 : an American myth -- Envious eyes : could it happen again?
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain