Envisioning socialism : television and the Cold War in the German Democratic Republic / Heather L. Gumbert.

By:

Gumbert, Heather L [author]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Social history, popular culture, and politics in GermanyPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2014]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780472120024
0472120026
1306463637
9781306463638
9780472900954
0472900951
0472119192
9780472119196

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Envisioning socialismDDC classification:

302.23/45 23

LOC classification:

PN1992.3.G4

Other classification:

HIS014000 | SOC052000 | PER010030

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EBSCOhost

Contents:

Cold War Signals: Television Technology in the GDR -- Inventing Television Programming in the GDR -- The Revolution Wasn't Televised: Political Discipline Confronts Live Television in 1956 -- Mediating the Berlin Wall: Television in August -- Coercion and Consent in Television Broadcasting: The Consequences of August 1961 -- Reaching Consensus on Television.

Summary: 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 prized for its communicative and entertainment value. She explores the difficulties GDR authorities had defining and executing a clear vision of the society they hoped to establish, and she explains how television helped to stabilize GDR society in a way that ultimately worked against the utopian vision the authorities thought they were cultivating.

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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 prized for its communicative and entertainment value. She explores the difficulties GDR authorities had defining and executing a clear vision of the society they hoped to establish, and she explains how television helped to stabilize GDR society in a way that ultimately worked against the utopian vision the authorities thought they were cultivating.