American representations of post-communism
Subtitle: television, travel sites, and post-Cold War narratives
By: Andaluna Borcila
Series: Routledge research in cultural and media studies -- 66; Routledge research in cultural and media studies -- 66.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780415741385
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Post-communism; In mass media; Mass media
Description: "With the televised events of 1989, territories of Eastern and Central Europe that had been marked as impenetrable and inaccessible to the Western gaze exploded into visibility. As the narratives of the Cold War crumbled, new narratives emerged and new geographies were produced on and by American television. Using an understudied archive of American news broadcasts, and tracing their flashes and echoes through travel guides and narratives of return written by Eastern European-Americans, this book explores American ways of seeing and mapping communism's disintegration and the narratives articulated around post-communist sites and subjects"--
Notes: First published: 2014.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-203) and index.
Table of contents: title: Disintegrating communism : the normative site of the Berlin Wall; title: Accessing the Romanian Revolution : Romania's journey from fringe zome to symptomatic site; title: On-site encounters and overexposed sites : post-Communist televisual Romania; title: Desiring, mapping, and naming Eastern Europe : the discourse of travel guides; title: With different eyes? Self-seeing and mapping in narratives of return.