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Book SynopsisBrings together work on forms of popular television within the authoritarian regimes of Europe after World War Two -- .
Trade Review"Focusing on parts of Europe often neglected in English-language research, this collection of essays offers a fresh perspective on the history of television cultures beyond the liberal democracies of the West.....the rich array of material presented offers plenty of useful bases for a conceptual endeavour of this kind."
(European Journal of Communication; July 2014)
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Table of ContentsForeword – John Corner
1. Introduction: Popular television in authoritarian Europe: A popular conundrum? – Peter Goddard
2. Football and bullfighting on television: spectacle and Spanish identity during Franco’s dictatorship (1956–75) – Juan Francisco Gutiérrez Lozano
3. From puppets to puppeteers: modernising Spain through entertainment television – Mar Binimelis, Josetxo Cerdán and Miguel Fernández Labayen
4. Entertaining the Colonels: propaganda, social change and entertainment in Greek television fiction (1967–74) – Gregory Paschalidis
5. Staying outside ‘The Egg’: surrealist entertainment during the Greek dictatorship – Christina Adamou
6. Between politics and soap: the articulation of ideology and melodrama in Czechoslovak communist television serials (1975–89) – Irena Carpentier Reifová, Petr Bednarík and Šimon Dominik
7. Re-staging the popular: televising Nicolae Ceausescu – Dana Mustata
8. KVN: live television and improvised comedy in the Soviet Union, 1957–71 – Andrew Janco
9. Undercover: how the East German political system presented itself in television series – Sascha Trültzsch and Reinhold Viehoff
10. Agitprop gone wrong: Der Schwarze Kanal – Frank Engelmann-del Mestre
11. Popular music on East German television: Constructing the televisual pop community in the GDR – Edward Larkey
12. A timeline of events in the history of television in authoritarian Europe – Berber Hagedoorn and Peter Goddard
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