Romanian revolution televised
Subtitle: contributions to the cultural history of media
By: editors, Konrad Petrovszky, Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu
Contributors: Țichindeleanu, Ovidiu, editor
Series: Refractions; Colecția Refracții
Publisher: Idea Design & Print, Editură
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cluj
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9789737913814
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: History; Television and politics; Mass media; Cable News Network; World today (Television program); Revolution (Romania : 1989) fast (OCoLC)fst01354571
Description: "With this volume we would like to celebrate critically the importance of the Revolution of 1989, as a problem-event that cannot be worked out in any of the subsequent answers. The Revolution is set in local and global context, in the frontispiece of a genealogy of global history that opens at the end of the Cold War, and as the germinative moment of the cultural history of postcommunism. We would like to reopen the possibilities of understanding the event of the 1989 Revolution as a productive chiasm between spectator and participant, as a consittutive act of the power relations between media technology, politics, and the public sphere of postcommunism. If "the truth of the Revolution will never be found out", as it has often been claimed, this is because any revolution forces the limits of sense, challenging whole paradigms of thought and political apparatuses of capture, and in the "televised revolution" one can grasp precisely the constituting act of a new regime of truth."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 255).
Table of contents: title: Live revolution! Genealogies of television and power; title: Revolution in posthistory: a crisis of paradigms; title: Archives of the tele-revolution; title: Beyond screens. Traces and reflexions.