Totalitarian communication : hierarchies, codes and messages / / edited by Kirill Postoutenko

• Pubblicazione: Bielefeld, Germany : , : Transcript, , [2014]; ©2014
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (317 p.)
• Disciplina: 909
• Soggetto topico: Communication - Political aspects; Mass media and propaganda
• Soggetto non controllato: Communication; Discourse; Europe 1900-1945; European History; History of the 20th Century; Media Aesthetics; Media; Society; Sociology of Media; Sociology
• Persona (resp. second.): PostoutenkoKirill
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter 1 CONTENTS 5 Acknowledgments 9 Prolegomena to the Study of Totalitarian Communication 11 Stalinist Rule and Its Communication Practices 43 Public Communication in Totalitarian, Authoritarian and Statist Regimes 67 Performance and Management of Political Leadership in Totalitarian and Democratic Societies 91 The Duce in the Street 125 Audio Media in the Service of the Totalitarian State? 157 The Birth of Socialist Realism out of the Spirit of Radiophonia 177 Totalitarian Propaganda as Discourse 197 Violence, Communication and Imagination 217 The Lure of Fascism? 249 Uneasy Communication in the Authoritarian State 275 Afterthoughts on "Totalitarian" Communication 301 AUTHORS 313
• Sommario/riassunto: Totalitarianism has been an object of extensive communicative research since its heyday: already in the late 1930s, such major cultural figures as George Orwell or Hannah Arendt were busy describing the visual and verbal languages of Stalinism and Nazism. After the war, many fashionable trends in social sciences and humanities (ranging from Begriffsgeschichte and Ego-Documentology to Critical Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis) were called upon to continue this media-centered trend in the face of increasing political determination of the burgeoing field. Nevertheless, the integration of historical, sociological and linguistic knowledge about totalitarian society on a firm factual ground remains the thing of the future. This book is the first step in this direction. By using history and theory of communication as an integrative methodological device, it reaches out to those properties of totalitarian society which appear to be beyond the grasp of specific disciplines. Furthermore, this functional approach allows to extend the analysis of communicative practices commonly associated with fascist Italy, Nazi Germany and Soviet Union, to other locations (France, United States of America and Great Britain in the 1930s) or historical contexts (post-Soviet developments in Russia or Kyrgyzstan). This, in turn, leads to the revaluation of the very term »totalitarian«: no longer an ideological label or a stock attribute of historical narration, it gets a life of its own, defining a specific constellation of hierarchies, codes and networks within a given society.; »Die einzelnen Beiträge [...] bieten [...] ein facettenreiches Bild von kommunikativen Praktiken und asymmetrischen Öffentlichkeiten in Diktaturen, wobei der Schwerpunkt der Beiträge auf der ehemaligen Sowjetunion liegt. Anregend wird der Band aber durch die Einbeziehung von Beispielen aus den USA, Frankreich, Großbritannien, einem Überblick über Diskurse zu Folterungen (von der Antike bis zu den Anschlägen am 11. September 2001 in den USA) etc. Das heißt, sowohl der Zeitraum wie auch die Länderbeispiele sind weitgespannt. Man kann dies kritisieren [...], doch - und das möchte ich für diesen Band betonen - kann Vielfalt auch sehr anregend sein.« Inge Marszolek, H-Soz-u-Kult, 09.03.2011/Clio-online, 1 (2011) »Die Beiträge sind in ihrer Gesamtheit stimmig zusammengestellt und wurden sorgfältig editiert. Der Band vermittelt eine breitgefächerte Methodenpalette zum Studium des Totalitarismus als eines historischen und kommunikationstechnischen Phänomens, welches ergiebige, gegenwartsnahe Diskussionsfelder eröffnet und zu weiteren konstruktiven interdisziplinären Arbeiten einlädt [...].« Konstantin Kaminskij, MEDIENwissenschaft, 1 (2011) Reviewed in: GMK-News, 1 (2011) Násilí, 23/11 (2010) IDÄNTUTKIMUS, 4 (2010), Jussi Lassila laviedesidées.fr, 3 (2011), Larissa Zakharova Problemy sovremennogo obrazovanija, 5 (2011), Boris Lanin
• Titolo autorizzato: Totalitarian Communication
• ISBN: 3-8394-1393-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996309238303316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Cultural and media studies.