Popular television in Eastern Europe during and since socialism / edited by Timothy Havens, Aniko Imre, and Katalin Lustyik.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Imre, Anikó.

Havens, Timothy.

Lustyik, Kati.

Series:

Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies

Routledge advances in internationalizing media studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television broadcasting--Social aspects--Europe, Eastern.

Television broadcasting.

Television broadcasting--Europe, Eastern--History--20th century.

Television programs--Europe, Eastern.

Television programs.

Culture diffusion--Europe, Eastern.

Culture diffusion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (299 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This collection of essays responds to the recent surge of interest in popular television in Eastern Europe. This is a region where television's transformation has been especially spectacular, shifting from a state-controlled broadcast system delivering national, regional, and heavily filtered Western programming to a deregulated, multi-platform, transnational system delivering predominantly American and Western European entertainment programming. Consequently, the nations of Eastern Europe provide opportunities to examine the complex interactions among economic and funding systems, regulatory policies, globalization, imperialism, popular culture, and cultural identity.This collection will be the first volume to gather the best writing, by scholars across and outside the region, on socialist and postsocialist entertainment television as a medium, technology, and institution"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Introduction; PART I Popular Television in Socialist Times; 1 Television Entertainment in Socialist Eastern Europe: Between Cold War Politics and Global Developments; 2 Adventures in Early Socialist Television Edutainment; 3 Television in the Age of (Post-)Communism: The Case of Romania; 4 The Carnival of the Absurd: Stanisław Bareja's Alternatywy 4 and Polish Television in the 1980s; 5 An Evening with Friends and Enemies: Political Indoctrination in Popular East German Family Series

PART II Commercial Globalization and Eastern European TV6 From a Socialist Endeavor to a Commercial Enterprise: Children's Television in East-Central Europe; 7 Intra-European Media Imperialism: Hungarian Program Imports and the Television Without Frontiers Directive; 8 To Be Romanian in Post-Communist Romania: Entertainment Television and Patriotism in Popular Discourse; 9 Post-Transitional Continuity and Change: Polish Broadcasting Flow and American TV Series; PART III Television and National Identity on Europe's Edges

10 Big Brothers and Little Brothers: National Identity in Recent Romanian Adaptations of Global Television Formats11 The Way We Applauded: How Popular Culture Stimulates Collective Memory of the Socialist Past in Czechoslovakia-the Case of the Television Serial Vyprávěj and its Viewers; 12 Coy Utopia: Politics in the First Hungarian TV Soap; 13 Why Must Roma Minorities be Always Seen on the Stage and Never in the Audience? Children's Opinions of Reality Roma TV; 14 Racing for the Audience: National Identity, Public TV and the Roma in Post-Socialist Slovenia; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-136-27404-9

1-283-60531-7

9786613917768

1-136-27405-7

0-203-11020-X

9780203110201

OCLC:

811505731