Totalitarian Communication : Hierarchies, Codes and Messages / Kirill Postoutenko.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Postoutenko, Kirill, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld, Germany : transcript Verlag, 2010.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

By using history and theory of communication as an integrative methodological device, this book reaches out to those properties of totalitarian society which appear to be beyond the grasp of specific disciplines. Furthermore, this functional approach allows to extend the analysis of communicative practices commonly associated with fascist Italy, Nazi Germany and Soviet Union, to other locations (France, United States of America and Great Britain in the 1930s) or historical contexts (post-Soviet developments in Russia or Kyrgyzstan). This, in turn, leads to the revaluation of the very term »totalitarian«: no longer an ideological label or a stock attribute of historical narration, it gets a life of its own, defining a specific constellation of hierarchies, codes and networks within a given society.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2018: HSS Backlist Books

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 101943

ISBN:

9783839413937

Publisher Number:

http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/transcript.9783839413937

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access