Envisioning Socialism
"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...
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2021
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| description | "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.
Gumbert challenges those who would dismiss East German television as a tool of repression that couldn’t compete with the West or capture the imagination of East Germans. Instead, she shows how, by the early 1960s, television was a model of the kind of socialist realist art that could appeal to authorities and audiences. Ultimately, this socialist vision was overcome by the challenges that the international market in media products and technologies posed to nation-building in the postwar period.
A history of ideas and perceptions examining both real and mediated historical conditions, Envisioning Socialism considers television as a technology, an institution, and a medium of social relations and cultural knowledge. The book will be welcomed in undergraduate and graduate courses in German and media history, the history of postwar Socialism, and the history of science and technologies." |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-263262025-07-30T06:02:07Z Envisioning Socialism Gumbert, Heather L. History Cold War Deutscher Fernsehfunk East Germany Socialism Socialist Unity Party of Germany West Germany "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. Gumbert challenges those who would dismiss East German television as a tool of repression that couldn’t compete with the West or capture the imagination of East Germans. Instead, she shows how, by the early 1960s, television was a model of the kind of socialist realist art that could appeal to authorities and audiences. Ultimately, this socialist vision was overcome by the challenges that the international market in media products and technologies posed to nation-building in the postwar period. A history of ideas and perceptions examining both real and mediated historical conditions, Envisioning Socialism considers television as a technology, an institution, and a medium of social relations and cultural knowledge. The book will be welcomed in undergraduate and graduate courses in German and media history, the history of postwar Socialism, and the history of science and technologies." 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2018-03-01 23:55:55 2020-03-12 03:00:31 2020-04-01T12:49:14Z 2014-01-27 book 648341 OCN: 871189706 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30237 9780472120024 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/26326 eng Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30237/1/648341.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30237/1/648341.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30237/1/648341.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30237/1/648341.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30237/1/648341.pdf University of Michigan Press 10.3998/mpub.5732195 10.3998/mpub.5732195 b7359529-e5f7-4510-a59f-d7dafa1d4d17 Knowledge Unlatched b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780472120024 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection Ann Arbor 100888 KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection open access |
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