The Cold War And Entertainment Television

Author : Lori Maguire
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443899253

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The Cold War and Entertainment Television by Lori Maguire Pdf

An essential dimension of the Cold War took place in the realm of ideas and culture. While much work exists on cinema, relatively little research has been conducted on this subject in relation to television, despite the latter being a technology and popular cultural form that emerged during this period. This book rectifies that absence by examining the impact of the Cold War on entertainment television, and underlines the comparative aspect by studying programs from both blocs – without forgetting, of course, the outsize impact of American television. Although most of the focus is on the two main protagonists, the US and the USSR, chapters also consider programming from the UK, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and both East and West Germany. This book represents a contribution to the debate about the cultural Cold War through a rigorously comparative analysis of the two blocs. For this reason, the approach used is thematic. The study begins by considering the subject of censorship, and then goes on to look at the very particular case of the two Germanys. A series of comparative genre studies follow, including police and war, variety shows, and documentaries and docudramas. Perhaps surprisingly, the similarities are often greater than the differences between television in the two blocs.

Author : James Schwoch
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,9 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 : Nancy Bernhard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 052154324X

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U.S. Television News and Cold War Propaganda, 1947-1960 by Nancy Bernhard Pdf

How US government and media collaborated in their dissemination of Cold War propaganda.

Author : Thomas Doherty
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005-03-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231503273

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Cold War, Cool Medium by Thomas Doherty Pdf

Conventional wisdom holds that television was a co-conspirator in the repressions of Cold War America, that it was a facilitator to the blacklist and handmaiden to McCarthyism. But Thomas Doherty argues that, through the influence of television, America actually became a more open and tolerant place. Although many books have been written about this period, Cold War, Cool Medium is the only one to examine it through the lens of television programming. To the unjaded viewership of Cold War America, the television set was not a harbinger of intellectual degradation and moral decay, but a thrilling new household appliance capable of bringing the wonders of the world directly into the home. The "cool medium" permeated the lives of every American, quickly becoming one of the most powerful cultural forces of the twentieth century. While television has frequently been blamed for spurring the rise of Senator Joseph McCarthy, it was also the national stage upon which America witnessed—and ultimately welcomed—his downfall. In this provocative and nuanced cultural history, Doherty chronicles some of the most fascinating and ideologically charged episodes in television history: the warm-hearted Jewish sitcom The Goldbergs; the subversive threat from I Love Lucy; the sermons of Fulton J. Sheen on Life Is Worth Living; the anticommunist series I Led 3 Lives; the legendary jousts between Edward R. Murrow and Joseph McCarthy on See It Now; and the hypnotic, 188-hour political spectacle that was the Army-McCarthy hearings. By rerunning the programs, freezing the frames, and reading between the lines, Cold War, Cool Medium paints a picture of Cold War America that belies many black-and-white clichés. Doherty not only details how the blacklist operated within the television industry but also how the shows themselves struggled to defy it, arguing that television was preprogrammed to reinforce the very freedoms that McCarthyism attempted to curtail.

Author : Heather Gumbert
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472119196

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Envisioning Socialism by Heather Gumbert Pdf

The first examination in English of East German television during the early Cold War

Author : Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781496831132

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Cold War II by Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad Pdf

Contributions by Thomas J. Cobb, Donna A. Gessell, Helena Goscilo, Cyndy Hendershot, Christian Jimenez, David LaRocca, Lori Maguire, Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad, Ian Scott, Vesta Silva, Lucian Tion, Dan Ward, and Jon Wiebel In recent years, Hollywood cinema has forwarded a growing number of images of the Cold War and entertained a return to memories of conflicts between the USSR and the US, Russians and Americans, and communism and capitalism. Cold War II: Hollywood’s Renewed Obsession with Russia explores the reasons for this sudden reestablished interest in the Cold War. Essayists examine such films as Guy Ritchie’s The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen’s Hail, Caesar!, David Leitch’s Atomic Blonde, Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water, Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther, and Francis Lawrence’s Red Sparrow, among others, as well as such television shows as Comrade Detective and The Americans. Contributors to this collection interrogate the revival of the Cold War movie genre from multiple angles and examine the issues of patriotism, national identity, otherness, gender, and corruption. They consider cinematic aesthetics and the ethics of these representations. They reveal how Cold War imagery shapes audiences’ understanding of the period in general and of the relationship between the US and Russia in particular. The authors complicate traditional definitions of the Cold War film and invite readers to discover a new phase in the Cold War movie genre: Cold War II.

Author : Anikó Imre,Timothy Havens,Kati Lustyik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415892483

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Popular Television in Eastern Europe During and Since Socialism by Anikó Imre,Timothy Havens,Kati Lustyik Pdf

This collection will be the first volume to gather the best writing on socialist and postsocialist entertainment television as a medium, technology, and institution in Eastern Europe.

Author : John W. Lemza
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780700632534

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The Big Picture by John W. Lemza Pdf

Capitalizing on thousands of feet of accumulated footage captured by combat camera crews during the early years of the Korean War, a small group of US Army officers conceptualized a film series that would widen viewers’ understanding of the service and its mission. Their efforts produced the documentary television series that in late 1951 would become The Big Picture. Although it would take years to fully utilize the emerging technologies and develop the concept into a popularly recognized television series, The Big Picture did evolve into a vehicle whose intention was to help the army tell its story, sell its relevance in the emerging Cold War, and inform and educate its audience about American ideals. Its messages captured the early post-1945 zeitgeist and reflected a national mood that was anticommunist, steeped in foundational principles of American exceptionalism, and trusting of elite leadership. John W. Lemza’s The Big Picture argues that the show, like others produced for television during that time by the armed forces, served as a vehicle for directed propaganda, scripted to send important Cold War messages to both those in uniform and the American public. In this first systematic study of its production and reception history as well as its themes and cultural impact, Lemza shows how the producers incorporated specific Cold War themes, such as anticommunism, into episodes and deployed television’s small screen as the intersection of propaganda and policy during the Cold War period. John Lemza’s study reveals that the longer The Big Picture maintained those themes the more they began to lose their resonance, especially when the cultural and social environment of the United States began changing in the mid-1960s. The series producers chose to continue on a course that was set during the early Cold War years, and the credibility of the show began to suffer. Throughout the course of its two-decade production run, however, The Big Picture cast a big shadow as the premier military program influencing viewing audiences through primetime television and syndication.

Author : Michael Curtin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0813522218

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Redeeming the Wasteland by Michael Curtin Pdf

During the early 1960s, the "golden age" of network documentary, commercial television engaged in one of the most ambitious public education efforts in U.S. history as all three networks dramatically expanded their documentary programming. Promoted by government leaders, funded by broadcasters, and hailed by critics, these documentaries sought to mobilize public opinion behind a more activist policy of U.S. leadership around the globe. The programs also were part of an explicit effort to make the "vast wasteland" of prime-time television live up to its vaunted potential to educate, inform, and enlighten. After more than a decade as the nation's shop window, television in the early 1960s promised to become the viewer's window onto the Free World, a world that President John F. Kennedy described as being full of promise and peril. By tracing the multiple and shifting relations between the government, the TV industry, and viewers, Michael Curtin explains how the most commercially unprofitable genre in television history became the most celebrated and controversial form of programming during the New Frontier era. This book is an important contribution to our understanding of how television mediates powerful social forces and will be indispensable to anyone interested in media studies and the history of the Cold War period.

Author : J. Fred MacDonald
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Broadcasting
ISBN : UOM:49015001072371

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Television and the Red Menace by J. Fred MacDonald Pdf

Author : Everette E. Dennis,George Gerbner,Yassen N. Zassoursky
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1991-03-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0803939019

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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 : Benjamin M. Han
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781978803855

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Beyond the Black and White TV by Benjamin M. Han Pdf

This is the first book that examines how “ethnic spectacle” in the form of Asian and Latin American bodies played a significant role in the cultural Cold War at three historic junctures: the Korean War in 1950, the Cuban Revolution in 1959, and the statehood of Hawaii in 1959. As a means to strengthen U.S. internationalism and in an effort to combat the growing influence of communism, television variety shows, such as The Xavier Cugat Show, The Ed Sullivan Show, and The Chevy Show, were envisioned as early forms of global television. Beyond the Black and White TV examines the intimate moments of cultural interactions between the white hosts and the ethnic guests to illustrate U.S. aspirations for global power through the medium of television. These depictions of racial harmony aimed to shape a new perception of the United States as an exemplary nation of democracy, equality, and globalism.

Author : Arnold Beichman
Publisher : Hoover Institution Press Publi
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015049639944

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CNN's Cold War Documentary by Arnold Beichman Pdf

A collection of essays in which various scholars debate the pros and cons of the twenty-four part television series on the Cold War produced by CNN.

Author : Stephen J. Whitfield
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1996-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0801851955

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The Culture of the Cold War by Stephen J. Whitfield Pdf

In a new epilogue to this second edition, he extends his analysis from the McCarthyism of the 1950s, including its effects on the American and European intelligensia, to the civil rights movement of the 1960s and beyond.

Author : Michael Kackman
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0816638292

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Citizen Spy by Michael Kackman Pdf

A revealing examination of American espionage television programs.