Envisioning socialism : : television and the Cold War in the German Democratic Republic / / Heather L. Gumbert.
"Envisioning Socialism examines television and the power it exercised to define the East Germans' view of socialism during the first decades of the German Democratic Republic. In the first book in English to examine this topic, Heather L. Gumbert traces how television became a medium prize...
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| Superior document: | Social history, popular culture, and politics in germany |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ann Arbor : : University of Michigan Press,, [2014] |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Social history, popular culture, and politics in germany.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 242 pages) :; PDF, digital file(s). |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Cold War Signals: Television Technology in the GDR
- 2. Inventing Television Programming in the GDR
- 3. The Revolution Wasn't Televised: Political Discipline Confronts Live Television in 1956
- 4. Mediating the Berlin Wall: Television in August 1961
- 5. Coercion and Consent in Television Broadcasting: The Consequences of August 1961
- 6. Reaching Consensus on Television
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.