War of words : culture and the mass media in the making of the Cold War in Europe /
War of words : culture and the mass media in the making of the Cold War in Europe /
- Dublin : University College Dublin Press, 2013.
- xiv, 226 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'Out of your sacrificial death grows our socialist deed' : Ernst Thälmann, the antifascism myth and Buchenwald Concentration Camp in East German political propaganda, 1948-58 / Russel Lemmons -- The leader cult in Communist Hungary, 1945-56 : propaganda, institutional background and mass media / Balázs Apor -- Soviet power and its images : celebrating Stalin's seventieth birthday / Judith Devlin -- Ideological pressure and censorship : Czech literature, 1948-57 / Jana Fischerova -- The Department of Agitation and Propaganda in Bulgaria, 1944-56 / Marietta Stankova -- Remembering the 'martyrs of antifascism' in Republican Italy : Piero Gobetti and the Italian Communist Party / Niamh Cullen -- Radio Luxembourg and Cold War changes in European attitudes towards international broadcasting / Jennifer Spohrer -- Greek and Yugoslav public radio in the 1940s and 1950s / Vlasis Vlasidis -- Print, power and persuasion : political poster art in the two German states in the first decade of the Cold War / Nicola Hille -- West European identity in Marshall Plan propaganda films / Hans-Jürgen Schröder -- New cities for new people : urban planning and mass media propaganda in Stalinist Poland and the GDR / Arnold Bartetzky -- 'Stalin's skyscrapers' and the propaganda of the new world order after World War II / Marina Dmitrieva -- The media audience of a Soviet Republic in the early Cold War : the Estonian SSR / Olaf Mertelsmann -- Jazz in Austria in the allied powers' cultural propaganda during the Cold War, 1945-55 / Elisabeth Kolleritsch -- Creating the 'new man' : propaganda and its alternatives in Hungarian literature from Romania, 1948-65 / Imre-József Balázs -- Jazz, rock and roll and Halbstarke : American popular culture in West Germany between Weimar conservatism and Cold War liberalism / Christoph Hendrik Müller -- Kampagnen mod Atomvåben and the making of the new left in Denmark, 1956-66 / Nils Arne Sørensen.
The role of propaganda, mass media and culture in the development of the Cold War in Europe has begun to attract the attention of historians. These essays consider the cultural complexities of the early Cold War: the need to explain and justify to Europeans the division of the continent into two hostile blocs.
9781906359379 (hardcover) 9781906359379: £50.00 1906359377 (hardcover)
2013363971
Mass media and propaganda.
Mass media and propaganda--History--Europe--20th century.
Cold War in mass media.
Cold War in popular culture.
Europe--History--20th century.
303.37509409045 / DEV
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'Out of your sacrificial death grows our socialist deed' : Ernst Thälmann, the antifascism myth and Buchenwald Concentration Camp in East German political propaganda, 1948-58 / Russel Lemmons -- The leader cult in Communist Hungary, 1945-56 : propaganda, institutional background and mass media / Balázs Apor -- Soviet power and its images : celebrating Stalin's seventieth birthday / Judith Devlin -- Ideological pressure and censorship : Czech literature, 1948-57 / Jana Fischerova -- The Department of Agitation and Propaganda in Bulgaria, 1944-56 / Marietta Stankova -- Remembering the 'martyrs of antifascism' in Republican Italy : Piero Gobetti and the Italian Communist Party / Niamh Cullen -- Radio Luxembourg and Cold War changes in European attitudes towards international broadcasting / Jennifer Spohrer -- Greek and Yugoslav public radio in the 1940s and 1950s / Vlasis Vlasidis -- Print, power and persuasion : political poster art in the two German states in the first decade of the Cold War / Nicola Hille -- West European identity in Marshall Plan propaganda films / Hans-Jürgen Schröder -- New cities for new people : urban planning and mass media propaganda in Stalinist Poland and the GDR / Arnold Bartetzky -- 'Stalin's skyscrapers' and the propaganda of the new world order after World War II / Marina Dmitrieva -- The media audience of a Soviet Republic in the early Cold War : the Estonian SSR / Olaf Mertelsmann -- Jazz in Austria in the allied powers' cultural propaganda during the Cold War, 1945-55 / Elisabeth Kolleritsch -- Creating the 'new man' : propaganda and its alternatives in Hungarian literature from Romania, 1948-65 / Imre-József Balázs -- Jazz, rock and roll and Halbstarke : American popular culture in West Germany between Weimar conservatism and Cold War liberalism / Christoph Hendrik Müller -- Kampagnen mod Atomvåben and the making of the new left in Denmark, 1956-66 / Nils Arne Sørensen.
The role of propaganda, mass media and culture in the development of the Cold War in Europe has begun to attract the attention of historians. These essays consider the cultural complexities of the early Cold War: the need to explain and justify to Europeans the division of the continent into two hostile blocs.
9781906359379 (hardcover) 9781906359379: £50.00 1906359377 (hardcover)
2013363971
Mass media and propaganda.
Mass media and propaganda--History--Europe--20th century.
Cold War in mass media.
Cold War in popular culture.
Europe--History--20th century.
303.37509409045 / DEV