Envisioning socialism: television and the Cold War in the German Democratic Republic

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...

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1. Verfasser: Gumbert, Heather L. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press [2014]
Schriftenreihe:Social history, popular culture, and politics in germany
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Zusammenfassung: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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ISBN:0472119192
0472120026
0472900951
1306463637
9780472119196
9780472120024
9780472900954
9781306463638
Zugangseinschränkungen:Open Access

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