From Media Systems to Media Cultures: Understanding Socialist Television by Sabi

Description: From Media Systems to Media Cultures by Sabina Mihelj, Simon Huxtable This book is aimed at media, communication and cultural studies scholars as well as readers interested in the cultural history of Eastern Europe. It develops an original framework for the comparative analysis of media cultures, and uses it to provide fascinating insights into the history of television under communist rule. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description In From Media Systems to Media Cultures: Understanding Socialist Television, Sabina Mihelj and Simon Huxtable delve into the fascinating world of television under communism, using it to test a new framework for comparative media analysis. To understand the societal consequences of mass communication, the authors argue that we need to move beyond the analysis of media systems, and instead focus on the role of the media in shaping cultural ideals and narratives, everyday practices and routines. Drawing on a wealth of original data derived from archival sources, programme and schedule analysis, and oral history interviews, the authors show how communist authorities managed to harness the power of television to shape new habits and rituals, yet failed to inspire a deeper belief in communist ideals. This book and their analysis contains important implications for the understanding of mass communication in non-democratic settings, and provides tools for the analysis of media cultures globally. Author Biography Sabina Mihelj is Professor of Media and Cultural Analysis at the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture at Loughborough University. She has written extensively on issues of media and nationalism, comparative media research, television studies, Eastern and Central European media, and Cold War media and culture. Her books include Media Nations: Communicating Belonging and Exclusion in the Modern World (2011) and Central and Eastern European Media in Comparative Perspective: Politics, Economy and Culture (2012). Her research was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Economic and Social Research Council, the British Academy, and the Leverhulme Trust. Simon Huxtable is a Visiting Fellow in Media and Cultural History at Loughborough University. His research focuses on the social and cultural history of late socialism. His research has been published in journals including Contemporary European History, Cahiers du Monde russe, and Media, Culture and Society and in a number of edited volumes. He is currently writing a monograph on the Soviet press and the public sphere after 1945, based on his doctoral research. His latest project focuses on the notion of the Socialist Way of Life in the USSR and GDR. Table of Contents 1. Introduction; 2. Media cultures; 3. Historical context; 4. Varieties of modernity; 5. Publications; 6. Privacy; 7. Transnationalism; 8. Everyday time; 9. History; 10. Extraordinary time; 11. Conclusion. Review From Media Systems to Media Cultures is a wonderful contribution to comparative media studies. It theorizes the complex and little-known world of state socialist television, and provides a compelling example of what it means to compare media cultures, and how this is related to the study of media systems. Daniel C. Hallin, University of California, San DiegoThis ambitious volume performs exemplary comparative research on socialist television, shifting the emphasis from media systems to media cultures. This book makes a major contribution to the study of mass communication under authoritarian rule and is a significant intervention in global communication and media research. Aniko Imre, author of TV SocialismThis book fruitfully uses the state socialist TV landscape to reset our notions of media culture across diverse national contexts. Refracting the idea of comparative media through the gaze of entangled modernities, it complicates existing understandings of Cold War TV and recasts it in terms more consonant with culture. A creative and generative study that promises to have decisive impact on how we think about comparative media research. Barbie Zelizer, Raymond Williams Professor of Communication, University of PennsylvaniaIn this pioneering, deeply researched and remarkably wide-ranging study, Mihelj and Huxtable have brought the insights of media studies to bear on the history of socialist television. They are sensitive to cultural particularities but always alive to comparisons and connections, both between individual socialist countries and between socialist East and liberal democratic West. Historians and theorists of Western media will have much to learn from this book as they reflect on their own fields. Stephen Lovell, Kings College London Promotional Proposes an original framework for comparative media research, and uses it to provide fascinating insights into television under communist rule. Review Quote This book fruitfully uses the state socialist TV landscape to reset our notions of media culture across diverse national contexts. Refracting the idea of comparative media through the gaze of entangled modernities, it complicates existing understandings of Cold War TV and recasts it in terms more consonant with culture. A creative and generative study that promises to have decisive impact on how we think about comparative media research. Barbie Zelizer, Raymond Williams Professor of Communication at the University of Pennsylvanias Annenberg School for Communication Promotional "Headline" Proposes an original framework for comparative media research, and uses it to provide fascinating insights into television under communist rule. Description for Bookstore This book is aimed at media, communication and cultural studies scholars as well as readers interested in the cultural history of Eastern Europe. It develops an original framework for the comparative analysis of media cultures, and uses it to provide fascinating insights into the history of television under communist rule. Description for Library This book is aimed at media, communication and cultural studies scholars as well as readers interested in the cultural history of Eastern Europe. It develops an original framework for the comparative analysis of media cultures, and uses it to provide fascinating insights into the history of television under communist rule. Details ISBN1108422608 Author Simon Huxtable Publisher Cambridge University Press Year 2018 ISBN-10 1108422608 ISBN-13 9781108422604 Format Hardcover Imprint Cambridge University Press Subtitle Understanding Socialist Television Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Affiliation Loughborough University Media Book Publication Date 2018-08-23 DEWEY 302.2345 Pages 384 Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises; 9 Tables, black and white; 11 Line drawings, color; 10 Line drawings, black and white Short Title From Media Systems to Media Cultures Language English UK Release Date 2018-08-23 AU Release Date 2018-08-23 NZ Release Date 2018-08-23 Series Communication, Society and Politics Alternative 9781108435598 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 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