Modernization, Nation-Building, and Television History - Brossura

Chakars, Melissa

Brossura

ISBN 10: 113854891X ISBN 13: 9781138548916

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2018

Riassunto

This innovative collection investigates the ways in which television programs around the world have highlighted modernization and encouraged nation-building. It is an attempt to catalogue and better understand the contours of this phenomenon, which took place as television developed and expanded in different parts of the world between the 1950s and the 1990s. From popular science and adult education shows to news magazines and television plays, few themes so thoroughly penetrated the small screen for so many years as modernization, with television producers and state authorities using television programs to bolster modernization efforts. Contributors analyze the hallmarks of these media efforts: nation-building, consumerism and consumer culture, the education and integration of citizens, and the glorification of the nation’s technological achievements.

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L'autore:

Stewart Anderson is Assistant Professor at Brigham Young University. He has research interests in German history and collective memory. His recent publications include articles for the Journal of European Television History and Culture and Memory Studies, as well as a chapter on German television, ethics, and the evolution of Holocaust memory.

Melissa Chakars is Assistant Professor of Russian and Soviet history at Saint Joseph’s University. Her publications include The Socialist Way of Life in Siberia: The Buryat Transformation and several articles on empire, identity, and gender in the Soviet Union with a focus on Siberia.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• ISBN 10: 113854891X
• ISBN 13: 9781138548916
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 228
• Redattore: Anderson Stewart