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Envisioning Socialism
The first examination in English of East German television during the early Cold War
James Bond's Socialist Rivals
James Bond's Socialist Rivals focuses on blockbuster television series in the former Soviet bloc of the Cold War to recover a world of spy fiction entertainment that was both hugely popular and of great and deliberate political importance for the Communist regimes.
Television and Political Communication in the Late Soviet Union
This study focuses on Soviet television audiences and examines their watching habits and the way they made use of television programs. Kirsten Bönker challenges the common misconception that viewers perceived Soviet television programming and entertainment culture as dull and formulaic. This study draws extensively on archival sources and oral history interviews to analyze how Soviet television involved audiences in political communication and how it addressed audiences’ emotional commitments to Soviet values and the Soviet way of life. Bönker argues that the Brezhnev era influenced political stability and brought an unprecedented rise of the living standards, creating new meanings for consumerism, the idea of the “home,” and private life among Soviet citizens. Exploring the concept of emotional bonding, this study engages broader discussions on the durability of the Soviet Union until perestroika.
History of communism in Europe: Vol. 5 / 2014
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"Getting History Right"
How do individuals, societies, and nations deal with their difficult pasts? "Getting History Right" examines this question in a comparative context by looking at an authoritarian East Germany and a pluralistic, democratic West Germany. Eschewing a narrow focus on elites, this work draws extensively on societal level discussions of the past in popular culture, such as film, television, radio, and newspapers. It examines how societal level discussions of the past shaped individual perceptions and interpretations of the past; and how individual perceptions and struggles over the meaning of the past shaped societal level discussions. These struggles over meaning and "getting history right" are n...
Screened Encounters
Established in 1955, the Leipzig International Documentary Film Festival became a central arena for staging the cultural politics of the German Democratic Republic, both domestically and in relation to West Germany and the rest of the world. Screened Encounters represents the definitive history of this key event, recounting the political and artistic exchanges it enabled from its founding until German unification, and tracing the outsize influence it exerted on international cultural relations during the Cold War.
Television Beyond and Across the Iron Curtain
From the mid-1950s onwards, the rise of television as a mass medium took place in many East and West European countries. As the most influential mass medium of the Cold War, television triggered new practices of consumption and media production, and of communication and exchange on both sides of the Iron Curtain. This volume leans on the long-neglected fact that, even during the Cold War era, television could easily become a cross-border matter. As such, it brings together transnational perspectives on convergence zones, observations, collaborations, circulations and interdependencies between Eastern and Western television. In particular, the authors provide empirical ground to include socia...
From Media Systems to Media Cultures
Proposes an original framework for comparative media research, and uses it to provide fascinating insights into television under communist rule.
Sesame Street
In Sesame Street: A Transnational History, author Helle Strandgaard Jensen tells the story of how the American television show became a global brand. Jensen argues that because the show's domestic production was not financially viable from the beginning, Sesame Street became a commodity that its producers assertively marketed all over the world. Sesame Street: A Transnational History combines archival research from seven countries, bolstering an insightful analysis of how local reception and rejection of the show related to the global sales strategies and American ideals it was built upon. Contrary to the producers' oft-publicized claims of Sesame Street's universality, the show was heavily ...
Ein Leben für den Film
Bislang hat die Forschung alternativen Formen der Filmherstellung in der ehemaligen DDR – und den sozialistischen Produktionssystemen im Allgemeinen – wenig bis gar keine Beachtung geschenkt. Dies gilt auch für die privatwirtschaftliche Filmherstellung, obwohl sie neben den staatlichen Institutionen der DEFA und des Fernsehens einen beträchtlichen Teil der politisch kontrollierten Film- und Fernsehproduktion im ehemaligen Arbeiter- und Bauernstaat ausgemacht hat. Dennis Basaldella betritt mit seiner Publikation Neuland, indem er sich dem Schaffen und dem Werk des wohl aktivsten dieser freien Filmhersteller widmet: Horst Klein. Basaldella liefert vielfältige, seltene, tiefe und auch pe...
