LEADER 04037oam 2200709 450 001 9910265237403321 005 20180927091243.0 010 $a0-472-90095-1 010 $a0-472-12002-6 024 7 $a10.3998/mpub.5732195 035 $a(CKB)2670000000544875 035 $a(EBL)3570525 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001133787 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11639803 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001133787 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11158129 035 $a(PQKB)11294545 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3570525 035 $a(OCoLC)871189706 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35008 035 $a(WaSeSS)IndRDA00124388 035 $a(MiU)10.3998/mpub.5732195 035 $a(ScCtBLL)698f84cb-a66c-4466-8f8d-94507306a1b7 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6533746 035 $aEBL6533746 035 $a(OCoLC)1232016719 035 $a(AU-PeEL)EBL6533746 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/26326 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000544875 100 $a20131220d2014 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn#---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEnvisioning socialism $etelevision and the Cold War in the German Democratic Republic /$fHeather L. Gumbert 210 1$aAnn Arbor :$cUniversity of Michigan Press,$d[2014] 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 242 pages) $cPDF, digital file(s) 225 1 $aSocial history, popular culture, and politics in germany 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-472-11919-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $a"Envisioning Socialism examines television and the power it exercised to define the East Germans' view of socialism during the first decades of the German Democratic Republic. In the first book in English to examine this topic, Heather L. Gumbert traces how television became a medium prized for its communicative and entertainment value. She explores the difficulties GDR authorities had defining and executing a clear vision of the society they hoped to establish, and she explains how television helped to stabilize GDR society in a way that ultimately worked against the utopian vision the authorities thought they were cultivating. Gumbert challenges those who would dismiss East German television as a tool of repression that couldn't compete with the West or capture the imagination of East Germans. Instead, she shows how, by the early 1960s, television was a model of the kind of socialist realist art that could appeal to authorities and audiences. Ultimately, this socialist vision was overcome by the challenges that the international market in media products and technologies posed to nation-building in the postwar period. A history of ideas and perceptions examining both real and mediated historical conditions, Envisioning Socialism considers television as a technology, an institution, and a medium of social relations and cultural knowledge. The book will be welcomed in undergraduate and graduate courses in German and media history, the history of postwar Socialism, and the history of science and technologies"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aSocial history, popular culture, and politics in germany. 606 $aTelevision and politics$zGermany (East) 606 $aTelevision$xSocial aspects$zGermany (East) 606 $aTelevision broadcasting$zGermany (East)$xHistory 606 $aSocialism and society$zGermany (East) 615 0$aTelevision and politics 615 0$aTelevision$xSocial aspects 615 0$aTelevision broadcasting$xHistory. 615 0$aSocialism and society 676 $a302.23/45 686 $aHIS014000$aSOC052000$aPER010030$2bisacsh 700 $aGumbert$b Heather L$0905413 712 02$aMichigan Publishing (University of Michigan) 801 0$bMiU 801 1$bMiU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910265237403321 996 $aEnvisioning socialism$92025117 997 $aUNINA