Remapping Cold War Media

Author : Alice Lovejoy,Mari Pajala
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253062215

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Remapping Cold War Media by Alice Lovejoy,Mari Pajala Pdf

Why were Hollywood producers eager to film on the other side of the Iron Curtain? How did Western computer games become popular in socialist Czechoslovakia's youth paramilitary clubs? What did Finnish commercial television hope to gain from broadcasting Soviet drama? 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 East 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.

Author : James Schwoch
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780252075698

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Global TV by James Schwoch Pdf

Exploring the relationship between the growth of global media and Cold War tensions and resolutions

Author : Greg McLaughlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 1786805251

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Russia and the Media by Greg McLaughlin Pdf

Are we witnessing the dawn of a new cold war?

Author : John Jenks
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780748626755

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British Propaganda and News Media in the Cold War by John Jenks Pdf

This is a study of the British state's generation, suppression and manipulation of news to further foreign policy goals during the early Cold War. Bribing editors, blackballing "e;unreliable"e; journalists, creating instant media experts through provision of carefully edited "e;inside information"e;, and exploiting the global media system to plant propaganda--disguised as news--around the world: these were all methods used by the British to try to convince the international public of Soviet deceit and criminality and thus gain support for anti-Soviet policies at home and abroad. Britain's shaky international position heightened the importance of propaganda. The Soviets and Americans were investing heavily in propaganda to win the "e;hearts and minds"e; of the world and substitute for increasingly unthinkable nuclear war. The British exploited and enhanced their media power and propaganda expertise to keep up with the superpowers and preserve their own global influence at a time when British economic, political and military power was sharply declining. This activity directly influenced domestic media relations, as officials used British media to launder foreign-bound propaganda and to create the desired images of British "e;public opinion"e; for foreign audiences. By the early 1950s censorship waned but covert propaganda had become addictive. The endless tension of the Cold War normalized what had previously been abnormal state involvement in the media, and led it to use similar tools against Egyptian nationalists, Irish republicans and British leftists. Much more recently, official manipulation of news about Iraq indicates that a behind-the-scenes examination of state propaganda's earlier days is highly relevant. John Jenks draws heavily on recently declassified archival material for this book, especially files of the Foreign Office's anti-Communist Information Research Department (IRD) propaganda agency, and the papers of key media organisations, journalists, politicians and officials. Readers will therefore gain a greater understanding of the depth of the state's power with the media at a time when concerns about propaganda and media manipulation are once again at the fore.

Author : Fredrik Norén,Emil Stjernholm,C. Claire Thomson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031051715

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Nordic Media Histories of Propaganda and Persuasion by Fredrik Norén,Emil Stjernholm,C. Claire Thomson Pdf

This open access edited volume shines new light on the history of propaganda and persuasion during the Nordic welfare epoch. A common analytical framework is developed that highlights transnational and transmedial perspectives rather than national or monomedial histories. The return of propaganda in contemporary debate underlines the need to historically contextualize the role and function of persuasive communication activities in the Nordic region and beyond. Building on an empirically situated approach, the chapters in this volume break new ground by covering a range of themes, from cultural diplomacy and nation branding to media materiality and information infrastructures. In doing so, the book stresses that the Nordic welfare epoch, with its associated epithet the “Nordic Model”, was built not only on governance, social security and economic productivity, but also on propaganda and persuasion.

Author : Everette E. Dennis,George Gerbner,Yassen N. Zassoursky
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1991-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015019871220

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Beyond the Cold War by Everette E. Dennis,George Gerbner,Yassen N. Zassoursky Pdf

Beyond the Cold War represents the first-ever attempt by media scholars and journalists to dissect the Cold War by examining mutual media images in the United States and the former Soviet Union. The result of a bilateral conference in Moscow in 1989, this volume offers an original journalistic assessment of the Cold War and its aftermath as a communications phenomenon. Discussions include the past and present state of Cold War rhetoric, the portrayal of Russians and Americans on television in the two countries, and images of self and other as portrayed by the two media.

Author : Henrik G. Bastiansen,Martin Klimke,Rolf Werenskjold
Publisher : Springer
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319983820

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Media and the Cold War in the 1980s by Henrik G. Bastiansen,Martin Klimke,Rolf Werenskjold Pdf

The Cold War was a media phenomenon. It was a daily cultural political struggle for the hearts and minds of ordinary people—and for government leaders, a struggle to undermine their enemies’ ability to control the domestic public sphere. This collection examines how this struggle played out on screen, radio, and in print from the late 1970s through the early 1990s, a time when breaking news stories such as Ronald Reagan’s “Star Wars” program and Mikhail Gorbachev’s policy of glasnost captured the world’s attention. Ranging from the United States to the Soviet Union and China, these essays cover photojournalism on both sides of the Iron Curtain, Polish punk, Norwegian film, Soviet magazines, and more, concluding with a contribution from Stuart Franklin, one of the creators of the iconic “Tank Man” image during the Tiananmen Square protests. By investigating an array of media actors and networks, as well as narrative and visual frames on a local and transnational level, this volume lays the groundwork for writing media into the history of the late Cold War.

Author : Robert Buchar
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781618978394

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And Reality Be Damned... by Robert Buchar Pdf

The real danger of Soviet deception during the fall of communism is exposed in this startling account that takes a firsthand look behind the Iron Curtain.---- Learn how the KGB sought world domination, starting with the USSR. Read the shocking facts about the true origin of international terrorism in the 1960s. Author Robert Buchar presents years of research and interviews with major players. His first-hand experience as a political refugee makes this an authentic and eye-opening account of Western Civilization's main enemy."Robert Buchar's book fills a vacuum, shedding light on the KGB's secret assistance to Communism and its tyrants ... [His] book shows the inner workings of [this] machine running its disinformation ... for all to see." - Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa

Author : Rosamund Johnston
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781503638709

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Red Tape by Rosamund Johnston Pdf

In socialist Eastern Europe, radio simultaneously produced state power and created the conditions for it to be challenged. As the dominant form of media in Czechoslovakia from 1945 until 1969, radio constituted a site of negotiation between Communist officials, broadcast journalists, and audiences. Listeners' feedback, captured in thousands of pieces of fan mail, shows how a non-democratic society established, stabilized, and reproduced itself. In Red Tape, historian Rosamund Johnston explores the dynamic between radio reporters and the listeners who liked and trusted them while recognizing that they produced both propaganda and entertainment. Red Tape rethinks Stalinism in Czechoslovakia—one of the states in which it was at its staunchest for longest—by showing how, even then, meaningful, multi-directional communication occurred between audiences and state-controlled media. It finds de-Stalinization's first traces not in secret speeches never intended for the ears of "ordinary" listeners, but instead in earlier, changing forms of radio address. And it traces the origins of the Prague Spring's discursive climate to the censored and monitored environment of the newsroom, long before the seismic year of 1968. Bringing together European history, media studies, cultural history, and sound studies, Red Tape shows how Czechs and Slovaks used radio technologies and institutions to negotiate questions of citizenship and rights.

Author : Tuomas Forsberg,Sirke Mäkinen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000469240

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Russia’s Cultural Statecraft by Tuomas Forsberg,Sirke Mäkinen Pdf

This book focusses on Russia’s cultural statecraft in dealing with a number of institutional cultural domains such as education, museums and monuments, high arts and sport. It analyses to what extent Russia’s cultural activities abroad have been used for foreign policy purposes, and perceived as having a political dimension. Building on the concept of cultural statecraft, the authors present a broad and nuanced view of how Russia sees the role of culture in its external relations, how this shapes the image of Russia, and the ways in which this cultural statecraft is received by foreign audiences. The expert team of contributors consider: what choices are made in fostering this agenda; how Russian state authorities see the purpose and limits of various cultural instruments; to what extent can the authorities shape these instruments; what domains have received more attention and become more politicised and what fields have remained more autonomous. The methodological research design of the book as a whole is a comparative case study comparing the nature of Russian cultural statecraft across time, target countries and diverse cultural domains. It will be of interest to scholars and students of Russian foreign policy and external relations and those working on the role of culture in world politics.

Author : Rielle Navitski
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520391444

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Transatlantic Cinephilia by Rielle Navitski Pdf

In the two decades after World War II, a vibrant cultural infrastructure of cineclubs, archives, festivals, and film schools took shape in Latin America through the labor of film enthusiasts who often worked in concert with French and France-based organizations. In promoting the emerging concept and practice of art cinema, these film-related institutions advanced geopolitical and class interests simultaneously in a polarized Cold War climate. Seeking to sharpen viewers' critical faculties as a safeguard against ideological extremes, institutions of film culture lent prestige to Latin America's growing middle classes and capitalized on official and unofficial efforts to boost the circulation of French cinema, enhancing the nation's soft power in the wake of military defeat and occupation. As the first book-length, transnational analysis of postwar Latin American film culture, Transatlantic Cinephilia deepens our understanding of how institutional networks have nurtured alternative and nontheatrical cinemas.

Author : Masha Shpolberg,Lukas Brasiskis
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781805393757

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Cinema and the Environment in Eastern Europe by Masha Shpolberg,Lukas Brasiskis Pdf

The annexation of Eastern Europe to the Soviet sphere after World War II dramatically reshaped popular understandings of the natural environment. With an eco-critical approach, Cinema and the Environment in Eastern Europe breaks new ground in documenting how filmmakers increasingly saw cinema as a tool to critique the social and environmental damage of large-scale projects from socialist regimes and newly forming capitalist presences. New and established scholars with backgrounds across Europe, the United States, and Australia come together to reflect on how the cultural sphere has, and can still, play a role in redefining our relationship to nature.

Author : Adam Dubin,Dean Vuletic,Antonio Obregón
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000614978

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The Eurovision Song Contest as a Cultural Phenomenon by Adam Dubin,Dean Vuletic,Antonio Obregón Pdf

Drawing from the wealth of academic literature about the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) written over the last two decades, this book consolidates and recognizes the ESC's relevance in academia by analysing its contribution to different fields of study. The book brings together leading ESC scholars from across disciplines and from across the globe to reflect on the intersection between their academic fields of study and the ESC by answering the question: what has the ESC contributed to academia? The book also draws from fields rarely associated with the ESC, such as Law, Business and Research Methodologies, to demonstrate the contest's broad utility in research, pedagogy and in practice. Given its interdisciplinary approach, this volume will be of interest to scholars and students working in cultural, media, and music studies, as well as those interested in the intersections between these areas and politics, law, education, pedagogy, and history.

Author : Andrew L. Jenks
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781839980435

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Collaboration in Space and the Search for Peace on Earth by Andrew L. Jenks Pdf

There has been quite a bit of scholarship on the history of the space race, but collaboration in space has received little attention and has usually been dismissed as a propaganda side show. This book thus fills a critical gap by showing the importance of collaboration in space as an antidote to Cold War hostilities and as an important yet underappreciated episode in the development of science and technology in the twentieth century.

Author : Heikki Luostarinen,Rune Ottosen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1072940954

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˜Theœ changing role of media conflicts by Heikki Luostarinen,Rune Ottosen Pdf