Popular television in Eastern Europe during and since socialism
By: edited by Anikó Imre, Timothy Havens and Kati Lustyik
Series: Routledge advances in internationalizing media studies
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780415892483
Subjects: Television broadcasting; Culture diffusion; Television programs; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies; HISTORY / Europe / Former Soviet Republics; History
Description: "This collection of essays responds to the recent surge of interest in popular television in Eastern Europe. This is a region where television's transformation has been especially spectacular, shifting from a state-controlled broadcast system delivering national, regional, and heavily filtered Western programming to a deregulated, multi-platform, transnational system delivering predominantly American and Western European entertainment programming. Consequently, the nations of Eastern Europe provide opportunities to examine the complex interactions among economic and funding systems, regulatory policies, globalization, imperialism, popular culture, and cultural identity.This collection will be the first volume to gather the best writing, by scholars across and outside the region, on socialist and postsocialist entertainment television as a medium, technology, and institution"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.