Media

A discussion between Tom Ashbrook, Martha Bayles, and R. Nicholas Burns on American public diplomacy, from the WBUR show On Point.

Martha Bayles discusses her book, Through a Screen Darkly: Popular Culture, Public Diplomacy, and America’s Image Abroad, in which she argues that the ideas of freedom and democracy are distorted in America’s popular cultural exports. Part of a week-long C-SPAN series with authors who had published books in 2014.

A discussion with Jen Golbeck on the Kojo Nnamdi Show, aired on WAMU 88.5. Topics of discussion feature public diplomacy and American pop culture.

An email interview conducted by British writer and critic Clive Davis, first published in 2005.

An interview conducted by JJM publisher Joe Maita, first published in 2001.

A discussion of the book Understanding America (2008), featuring Bayles talking about her contributed chapter, "Popular Culture."

A lecture and Q&A by Bayles, wherein she discusses her book Through a Screen Darkly (originally under the title of The Ugly Americans: How Not to Lose the Global Culture War).