"Cold War media cultures are typically remembered in terms of an East-West binary, emphasizing conflict and propaganda. Remapping Cold War Media, however, offers a different perspective on the period, illuminating the extensive connections between media industries and cultures in Europe's Cold War E
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ast and their counterparts in the West and Global South. These connections were forged by pragmatic, technological, economic, political, and aesthetic forces; they had multiple, at times conflicting, functions and meanings. And they helped shape the ways in which media circulates today—from film festivals, to satellite networks, to coproductions. Considering film, literature, radio, photography, computer games, and television, Remapping Cold War Media offers a transnational history of postwar media that spans Eastern and Western Europe, the Nordic countries, Cuba, the United States, and beyond. Contributors draw on extensive archival research to reveal how media traveled across geopolitical boundaries; the processes of translation, interpretation, and reception on which these travels depended; and the significance of media form, content, industries, and infrastructures then and now." (Publisher description)
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"[The authors] delve into the fascinating world of television under communism, using it to test a new framework for comparative media analysis. To understand the societal consequences of mass communication, the authors argue that we need to move beyond the analysis of media systems, and instead focu
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s on the role of the media in shaping cultural ideals and narratives, everyday practices and routines. Drawing on a wealth of original data derived from archival sources, programme and schedule analysis, and oral history interviews, the authors show how communist authorities managed to harness the power of television to shape new habits and rituals, yet failed to inspire a deeper belief in communist ideals. This book and their analysis contains important implications for the understanding of mass communication in non-democratic settings, and provides tools for the analysis of media cultures globally." (Publisher description)
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"This article develops a number of conceptual and methodological proposals aimed at furthering a firmer agenda for the field of socialist television studies. It opens by addressing the issue of relevance of the field, identifying three critical contributions the study of socialist television can mak
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e to media, communication and cultural studies. It then puts forward a number of proposals tied to three key issues: strategies of overcoming the Cold War framework that dominates much of existing literature; the importance of a multilayered analysis of socialist television that considers its cultural, political as well as economic aspects; and the ways in which we can challenge the prevalence of methodological nationalism in the field." (Abstract)
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"This dissertation explores the role of community media in democratic civil society governance through an examination of participatory communications under socialist administrations in Latin America, with a primary focus on the Bolivarian government of Venezuela. In so doing, it seeks to establish a
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theoretical framework that will facilitate publicly supported democratic media systems capable of displacing hegemonic commercial and state models. One major axis of investigation is the utility of public sphere theory for the structuration of participatory media institutions that function within a system of civil society governance." (Abstract)
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"The reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev have brought tumultuous change to political, social and economic life in the Soviet Union. But how have these changes affected Soviet press and television reporting? Glasnost, Perestroika and the Soviet Media examines the changing role of Soviet journalism from its
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theoretical origins in the writings of Marx and Lenin to the new freedoms of the Gorbachev era. The book includes detailed analysis of contemporary Soviet media output, as well as interviews with Soviet journalists." (Publisher description)
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"Mattelart is one of the best exponents of the Marxist viewpoint in relation to developing nations. 'Communicating in Popular Nicaragua' is a critical anthology of 12 articles by authors from Nicaragua and the United States who give a Marxian analysis of numerous aspects of communication, broadly de
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fined to include mural expression and literary and social movements as well as the more traditional journalism, the press, radio, film and video. A number of the articles are published here for the first time. In conclusion is a bibliography of "Left" studies on the media and culture in Nicaragua and Latin America in general." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 271)
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"An examination of the mass media available in Soviet Russia and of attitudes toward the various ones. Although the author was somewhat hampered because partisan and political subjects were not considered appropriate for opinion surveys, she was nevertheless able to learn not only about media exposu
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re and use by the general public but also within different groups - for example, migrants and super-activists." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 297)
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"The aim of this booklet is not only to inform; we tried in the first place to give a journalistic view of a country, that only some decades ego was a backward feudal country and by now is able to regard with satisfaction the remarkable results of its socialist construction," explains the editor. Tw
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enty seven of its 44 pages are devoted to this transformation of Mongolia, followed by brief summaries of the role of the various media. Useful in spite of the scarcity of information because so little exists on mass communications in Mongolia." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 316)
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"An examination of the operations and management of the vast Soviet publishing industry in the light of govemmental policy and its effects on creation, content, production, manufacture, and distribution. Appendixes give authors'fee scales and all-union book retail prices." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G.
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Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1120)
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"Robinson discusses the development and operation of the press and broadcasting, against the background of the sociopolitical factors that have shaped this multinational, multilingual Communist state. She details the history of communications from 1945 to 1975; analyzes the national news agency, Tan
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jug; examines the way in which characteristic news values have evolved; and describes the role of the media in nation-building in a country with widely diverse ethnic groups. In conclusion she explores the composition of readers, listeners, and viewers. Appendixes give the journalism code, the content of three geographical foreign policy registers (1964), and a comparison of overlapping subject master in Tanjug and the Associated Press." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 361)
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