Popular Television in Authoritarian Europe

Herausgeber: Goddard, Peter

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Produktbeschreibung

This lively and ground-breaking collection brings together work on forms of popular television within the authoritarian regimes of Europe after World War Two. Ten chapters based on new and original research examine approaches to programming and individual programmes in Spain, Greece, Czechoslovakia, Romania, the USSR and the GDR at a time when they were governed as dictatorships or one-party states. Rather than foregrounding the political economy of television or its role as an overt tool of state propaganda, the focus is on popular television - everyday programming that ordinary people watched. But what can be considered 'popular' when audience appeal is often secondary to the need for state control? This conundrum is examined in an editorial introduction and through the different approaches that contributors to this volume choose to take in applying the term to the programming they examine. Transnational histories of European television represent an important growth area in recent scholarship, but much of this work has concentrated on Western Europe - where archival access and television scholarship are well-established - with little address to 'the popular' except via a Western perspective. Popular television in authoritarian Europe ranges more widely: drawing on surviving archives, scripts and production records, contemporary publications, YouTube clips, and interviews with producers and performers, its chapters recover examples of television programming history unknown beyond national borders and often preserved largely in the memories of the audiences who lived with them. This is an important book for teaching and scholarship about television, cultural history and Eastern and Southern European studies. With a foreword by John Corner.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780719082399
• ISBN-10: 0719082390
• Artikelnr.: 39100188

Autorenporträt

Peter Goddard is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Communication and Media, University of Liverpool

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
John Corner 1. Introduction: Popular television in authoritarian Europe: A popular conundrum?
Peter Goddard 2. Football and bullfighting on television: spectacle and Spanish identity during Franco's dictatorship (1956
75)
Juan Francisco Gutiérrez Lozano 3. From puppets to puppeteers: modernising Spain through entertainment television
Mar Binimelis, Josetxo Cerdán and Miguel Fernández Labayen 4. Entertaining the Colonels: propaganda, social change and entertainment in Greek television fiction (1967
74)
Gregory Paschalidis 5. Staying outside 'The Egg': surrealist entertainment during the Greek dictatorship
Christina Adamou 6. Between politics and soap: the articulation of ideology and melodrama in Czechoslovak communist television serials (1975
89)
Irena Carpentier Reifová, Petr Bednarík and simon Dominik 7. Re
staging the popular: televising Nicolae Ceausescu
Dana Mustata 8. KVN: live television and improvised comedy in the Soviet Union, 1957
71
Andrew Janco 9. Undercover: how the East German political system presented itself in television series
Sascha Trültzsch and Reinhold Viehoff 10. Agitprop gone wrong: Der Schwarze Kanal
Frank Engelmann
del Mestre 11. Popular music on East German television: Constructing the televisual pop community in the GDR
Edward Larkey 12. A timeline of events in the history of television in authoritarian Europe
Berber Hagedoorn and Peter Goddard Index