Envisioning Socialism : Television and the Cold War in the German Democratic Republic

• Tác giả: Heather L Gumbert
• Ngôn ngữ: English
• ISBN-13: 978-0472120024
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 302.2345 Communication
• Thông tin xuất bản: Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press 20140127
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 171600

Tóm tắt

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.