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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780472120024 0472120026 1306463637 9781306463638 9780472900954 0472900951 0472119192 9780472119196 |