Remapping Cold War Media (eBook, ePUB)

Institutions, Infrastructures, Translations
Redaktion: Lovejoy, Alice; Pajala, Mari

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Why were Hollywood producers eager to film on the other side of the Iron Curtain? How did Western computer games become popular in socialist Czechoslovakia's youth paramilitary clubs? What did Finnish commercial television hope to gain from broadcasting Soviet drama?

Cold War media cultures are typically remembered in terms of an East-West binary, emphasizing conflict and propaganda. Remapping Cold War Media, however, offers a different perspective on the period, illuminating the extensive connections between media industries and cultures in Europe's Cold War East and their counterparts in the West and Global South. These connections were forged by pragmatic, technological, economic, political, and aesthetic forces; they had multiple, at times conflicting, functions and meanings. And they helped shape the ways in which media circulates today-from film festivals, to satellite networks, to coproductions.

Considering film, literature, radio, photography, computer games, and television, Remapping Cold War Media offers a transnational history of postwar media that spans Eastern and Western Europe, the Nordic countries, Cuba, the United States, and beyond. Contributors draw on extensive archival research to reveal how media traveled across geopolitical boundaries; the processes of translation, interpretation, and reception on which these travels depended; and the significance of media form, content, industries, and infrastructures then and now.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780253062222
• Artikelnr.: 63777207

Autorenporträt

edited by Alice Lovejoy, Mari Pajala, with contributions by Katie Trumpener, Rosamund Johnston, Anu Koivunen, Masha Salazkina, Sonja Simonyi, Jaroslav velch, Marie Cronqvist, Elena Razlogova, Brangwen Stone, Marla Zubel, Laura Saarenmaa, Petr Szczepanik, Stefano Pisu, Christine Evans, Lars Lundgren

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Note on Translation and Transliteration
1. Introduction, by Alice Lovejoy and Mari Pajala
Part I: Mobile Forms
2. Stalin Boulevard: Panoramic Vistas and Urban Planning in Eastern
European Photobooks, by Katie Trumpener
3. The Peace Train: Anticosmopolitanism, Internationalism, and Jazz on
Czechoslovak Radio during Stalinism, by Rosamund Johnston
4. Soviet Drama with Commercial Breaks: Living the Cold War in 1970s
Finnish Television, by Anu Koivunen
Part II: Distribution, Adaptation, Reception
5. Soviet Cinema in 1960s Cuba: Between Cold War Logics and Thirdworldist
Affinities, by Masha Salazkina
6. From the Antechamber to the International Stage: Early-Career Directors
from Hungary at the Mannheim Film Festival in the Late 1970s, by Sonja
Simonyi
7. Manic Miners of the World, Unite! How the British Hit Computer Game Got
a Second Life in Czechoslovakia, by Jaroslav velch
8. Between Scripts: Radio Berlin International (RBI) and Its Swedish
Audience in November 1989, by Marie Cronqvist
Part III: Translation
9. On Soviet Spoken Cinema, by Elena Razlogova
10. A GDR Writer in America: Christa Wolf's Visit to Oberlin and the
Circulation of Her Writing as World Literature, by Brangwen Stone
11. Translating Cold War Internationalism: Allegoresis in Ryszard
Kapusìcinìski's Literary Reportage, by Marla Zubel
12. Traveling with the President: Finnish-Soviet State Visits and 1970s
Television Diplomacy, by Laura Saarenmaa
Part IV: Infrastructure and Production
13. Hollywood Going East: State-Socialist Studios' Opportunistic Business
with American Producers, by Petr Szczepanik
14. Envisioning the Revolutionary South: The Soviet-Italian Coproduction
Life is Beautiful (1979), by Stefano Pisu
15. Dividing the Cosmos? INTELSAT, Intersputnik, and the Development of
Transnational Satellite Communications Infrastructures during the Cold War,
by Christine Evans and Lars Lundgren
16. Spy from the Cloud: From Big Brother to Big Data, by Anikó Imre
Index