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Record Nr.

UNINA9910155422703321

Autore

Imesch Kornelia

Titolo

Constructions of Cultural Identities in Newsreel Cinema and Television after 1945 / Kornelia Imesch, Sigrid Schade, Samuel Sieber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2016

ISBN

3-8394-2975-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 pages) : illustrations (some color), photographs

Collana

MedienAnalysen ; 17

Disciplina

791

Soggetti

Newsreel; Film; Television; Archive; National Identity; Cultural Identity; Contemporary Art; Media; Cultural History; Media History; Media Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1  Contents    5  Introduction: Constructions of Cultural Identities in Newsreel Cinema and Television after 1945    7  The Politics of Archives    21  The Creation of Cultural Identity through Weekly Newsreels in Germany in the 1950s    39  West German State Newsreels in the Period of the Economic Miracle 1950-1964    55  The Visual Memory of the Cold War    81  Art Exhibitions through Newsreels    101  Jean Tinguely & Le Corbusier in Swiss Weekly Film Newsreels and Television    117  Fiction and Newsreel Documentary in Godard's Cinema    133  Between Migration and Integration    167  Re-marking of Differences: Culture Television and Art Interplaying    189  Constructing an Emancipated Culture of Art Spectatorship?    207  Authors    225

Sommario/riassunto

Newsreel cinema and television not only served as an important tool in the shaping of political spheres and the construction of national and cultural identities up to the 1960s. Today's potent televisual forms were furthermore developed in and strongly influenced by newsreels, and much of the archived newsreel footage is repeatedly used to both illustrate and re-stage past events and their significance.  This book addresses newsreel cinema and television as a medium serving the formation of cultural identities in a variety of national contexts after 1945, its role in forming audiovisual narratives of a »biopic of the nation«, and the technical, aesthetical, and political challenges of



archiving and restaging cinematic and televisual newsreel.