The Cold War and Entertainment TelevisionLori Maguire Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 17 août 2016 - 280 pages An essential dimension of the Cold War took place in the realm of ideas and culture. While much work exists on cinema, relatively little research has been conducted on this subject in relation to television, despite the latter being a technology and popular cultural form that emerged during this period. This book rectifies that absence by examining the impact of the Cold War on entertainment television, and underlines the comparative aspect by studying programs from both blocs – without forgetting, of course, the outsize impact of American television. Although most of the focus is on the two main protagonists, the US and the USSR, chapters also consider programming from the UK, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and both East and West Germany. This book represents a contribution to the debate about the cultural Cold War through a rigorously comparative analysis of the two blocs. For this reason, the approach used is thematic. The study begins by considering the subject of censorship, and then goes on to look at the very particular case of the two Germanys. A series of comparative genre studies follow, including police and war, variety shows, and documentaries and docudramas. Perhaps surprisingly, the similarities are often greater than the differences between television in the two blocs. |
Table des matières
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Chapter Three | 31 |
Chapter Four | 53 |
Chapter Five | 69 |
Chapter Six | 83 |
Chapter Seven | 97 |
Chapter Eight | 107 |
Chapter Eleven | 155 |
Chapter Twelve | 167 |
Chapter Thirteen | 181 |
Chapter Fourteen | 203 |
Chapter Fifteen | 219 |
Chapter Sixteen | 231 |
Chapter Seventeen | 247 |
Contributors | 267 |
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