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Informationen zum Autor Peter Goddard is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool Klappentext This lively and ground-breaking collection brings together work on forms of popular television within the authoritarian regimes of Europe after World War Two. Ten chapters based on new and original research examine approaches to programming and individual programmes in Spain, Greece, Czechoslovakia, Romania, the USSR and the GDR at a time when they were governed as dictatorships or one-party states. Rather than foregrounding the political economy of television or its role as an overt tool of state propaganda, the focus is on popular television - everyday programming that ordinary people watched. But what can be considered 'popular' when audience appeal is often secondary to the need for state control? This conundrum is examined in an editorial introduction and through the different approaches that contributors to this volume choose to take in applying the term to the programming they examine. Transnational histories of European television represent an important growth area in recent scholarship, but much of this work has concentrated on Western Europe - where archival access and television scholarship are well-established - with little address to 'the popular' except via a Western perspective. Popular television in authoritarian Europe ranges more widely: drawing on surviving archives, scripts and production records, contemporary publications, YouTube clips, and interviews with producers and performers, its chapters recover examples of television programming history unknown beyond national borders and often preserved largely in the memories of the audiences who lived with them. This is an important book for teaching and scholarship about television, cultural history and Eastern and Southern European studies. With a foreword by John Corner. Zusammenfassung Brings together work on forms of popular television within the authoritarian regimes of Europe after World War Two -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword - John Corner1. Introduction: Popular television in authoritarian Europe: A popular conundrum? - Peter Goddard2. Football and bullfighting on television: spectacle and Spanish identity during Franco's dictatorship (1956-75) - Juan Francisco Gutiérrez Lozano3. From puppets to puppeteers: modernising Spain through entertainment television - Mar Binimelis, Josetxo Cerdán and Miguel Fernández Labayen4. Entertaining the Colonels: propaganda, social change and entertainment in Greek television fiction (1967-74) - Gregory Paschalidis5. Staying outside 'The Egg': surrealist entertainment during the Greek dictatorship - Christina Adamou6. Between politics and soap: the articulation of ideology and melodrama in Czechoslovak communist television serials (1975-89) - Irena Carpentier Reifová, Petr Bednarík and simon Dominik7. Re-staging the popular: televising Nicolae Ceausescu - Dana Mustata8. KVN: live television and improvised comedy in the Soviet Union, 1957-71 - Andrew Janco9. Undercover: how the East German political system presented itself in television series - Sascha Trültzsch and Reinhold Viehoff10. Agitprop gone wrong: Der Schwarze Kanal - Frank Engelmann-del Mestre11. Popular music on East German television: Constructing the televisual pop community in the GDR - Edward Larkey12. A timeline of events in the history of television in authoritarian Europe - Berber Hagedoorn and Peter GoddardIndex...
