Matthew A Killmeier
Biographic Data
| ID | 4117636 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew A Killmeier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew A |
| FAMILY NAME | Killmeier |
| SIGNATURE | KILLMEIER M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern Maine |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1269-1286 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Peter Quill
This article assesses Peter Quill, a radio thriller drama that aired on WGN (1938–1940) and evinces the early multimedia interaction of newspaper-owned radio stations through a tie-up with the Chicago Tribune, its owner. The paper condensed each week’s program with a visual summary, while the program dramatically echoed and amplified the paper’s anticommunist stance and rightist ideology through another mode and medium. Peter Quill aided US autho…
Decoding the Message
This article examines “The Message,” a 2015 audio drama science fiction podcast with a verisimilar narrative that led some listeners to interpret it as nonfiction. It argues the podcast’s use of nonfiction genre conventions, web paratexts, and its reception context contributed to such misinterpretations. It situates “The Message” in context with “The War of the Worlds” and a contemporaneous audio text that similarly duped listeners, and explores …
The Family Nagashi
This article provides a cultural history of The Family Nagashi, a 1945 propaganda play by Arch Oboler focused on combatting racism against Japanese Americans returning home from the wartime internment camps and military service. It situates the play in the historical contexts of wartime US racism towards Japanese Americans, the collaborative nature of US wartime propaganda and the uses of ethnic soldiers in wartime propaganda to promote tolerance…
"The Biosphere Metamorphosed as "Buyosphere
America(n) abroad
This article offers a cultural historical interpretation of The Third Man: The Lives of Harry Lime (195152), an internationally syndicated radio series based on the film The Third Man (Reed 1949). It argues that the series' cultural meanings can only be fully assessed through accounting for the programme's international framing or encoding, which critics have heretofore overlooked. As an internationally encoded series, The Third Man has a high de…
Wolves at the Door
Many journalists and scholars overlook the discursive role of music in TV political advertisements. But we argue that music is a potent means of political persuasion. Music in advertisements is determinative; all other elements—images, voiceovers, sound effects, written text, and so on—are circumscribed by the music and interpreted in relation to it. Music determines an advertisement’s character through framing and underscoring; musical frames es…
Neo-nationalism seeks strength from the gods
This article examines Japanese press coverage of Premier Koizumi’s controversial visits to Yasukuni Shrine from 2001 to 2006. The shrine memorializes war dead, including 14 Class-A Second World War criminals, and is implicated in the history issue — the unresolved legacy of Imperial Japan’s wartime history. Using critical, qualitative content analysis, the authors analyze the Japanese press coverage’s representation of historical context. Theorie…
A People’s History of Empire, or the Imperial Recuperation of Vietnam? Countermyths and Myths in Heaven and Earth
Using the concept of myth, this essay mounts a diagnostic critique of Oliver Stone’s Heaven and Earth to interrogate its historical and political significance. The film provides critical correctives to the limited representations of most Hollywood Vietnam War films, contributing to a fuller historical accounting of the war. As a political construction, it contributes to the American recuperation of Vietnam as an object of neoliberal imperialism. …
Voices between the Tracks
While much historiography on U.S. radio and popular music of the postwar period portrays disk jockeys as having a large degree of freedom, this article challenges this rendition and argues that their autonomy was constrained by a number of institutional and industry pressures. Based on discourses in industry and lay publications, the author argues that disk jockeys were pressured by recording industry largess and station management, which constra…
Neo-nationalism seeks strength from the gods
This article examines Japanese press coverage of Premier Koizumi’s controversial visits to Yasukuni Shrine from 2001 to 2006. The shrine memorializes war dead, including 14 Class-A Second World War criminals, and is implicated in the history issue — the unresolved legacy of Imperial Japan’s wartime history. Using critical, qualitative content analysis, the authors analyze the Japanese press coverage’s representation of historical context. Theorie…
Wolves at the Door
Many journalists and scholars overlook the discursive role of music in TV political advertisements. But we argue that music is a potent means of political persuasion. Music in advertisements is determinative; all other elements—images, voiceovers, sound effects, written text, and so on—are circumscribed by the music and interpreted in relation to it. Music determines an advertisement’s character through framing and underscoring; musical frames es…
Voices between the Tracks
While much historiography on U.S. radio and popular music of the postwar period portrays disk jockeys as having a large degree of freedom, this article challenges this rendition and argues that their autonomy was constrained by a number of institutional and industry pressures. Based on discourses in industry and lay publications, the author argues that disk jockeys were pressured by recording industry largess and station management, which constra…
A People’s History of Empire, or the Imperial Recuperation of Vietnam? Countermyths and Myths in Heaven and Earth
Using the concept of myth, this essay mounts a diagnostic critique of Oliver Stone’s Heaven and Earth to interrogate its historical and political significance. The film provides critical correctives to the limited representations of most Hollywood Vietnam War films, contributing to a fuller historical accounting of the war. As a political construction, it contributes to the American recuperation of Vietnam as an object of neoliberal imperialism. …
Neo-nationalism seeks strength from the gods
This article examines Japanese press coverage of Premier Koizumi’s controversial visits to Yasukuni Shrine from 2001 to 2006. The shrine memorializes war dead, including 14 Class-A Second World War criminals, and is implicated in the history issue — the unresolved legacy of Imperial Japan’s wartime history. Using critical, qualitative content analysis, the authors analyze the Japanese press coverage’s representation of historical context. Theorie…
America(n) abroad
This article offers a cultural historical interpretation of The Third Man: The Lives of Harry Lime (195152), an internationally syndicated radio series based on the film The Third Man (Reed 1949). It argues that the series' cultural meanings can only be fully assessed through accounting for the programme's international framing or encoding, which critics have heretofore overlooked. As an internationally encoded series, The Third Man has a high de…
Wolves at the Door
Many journalists and scholars overlook the discursive role of music in TV political advertisements. But we argue that music is a potent means of political persuasion. Music in advertisements is determinative; all other elements—images, voiceovers, sound effects, written text, and so on—are circumscribed by the music and interpreted in relation to it. Music determines an advertisement’s character through framing and underscoring; musical frames es…
"The Biosphere Metamorphosed as "Buyosphere
The Family Nagashi
This article provides a cultural history of The Family Nagashi, a 1945 propaganda play by Arch Oboler focused on combatting racism against Japanese Americans returning home from the wartime internment camps and military service. It situates the play in the historical contexts of wartime US racism towards Japanese Americans, the collaborative nature of US wartime propaganda and the uses of ethnic soldiers in wartime propaganda to promote tolerance…
Decoding the Message
This article examines “The Message,” a 2015 audio drama science fiction podcast with a verisimilar narrative that led some listeners to interpret it as nonfiction. It argues the podcast’s use of nonfiction genre conventions, web paratexts, and its reception context contributed to such misinterpretations. It situates “The Message” in context with “The War of the Worlds” and a contemporaneous audio text that similarly duped listeners, and explores …
Peter Quill
This article assesses Peter Quill, a radio thriller drama that aired on WGN (1938–1940) and evinces the early multimedia interaction of newspaper-owned radio stations through a tie-up with the Chicago Tribune, its owner. The paper condensed each week’s program with a visual summary, while the program dramatically echoed and amplified the paper’s anticommunist stance and rightist ideology through another mode and medium. Peter Quill aided US autho…
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