Popular television in Eastern Europe during and since socialism

Description:

"This collection of essays responds to the recent surge of interest in popular television in Eastern Europe. This is a region where television's transformation has been especially spectacular, shifting from a state-controlled broadcast system delivering national, regional, and heavily filtered Western programming to a deregulated, multi-platform, transnational system delivering predominantly American and Western European entertainment programming. Consequently, the nations of Eastern Europe provide opportunities to examine the complex interactions among economic and funding systems, regulatory policies, globalization, imperialism, popular culture, and cultural identity.This collection will be the first volume to gather the best writing, by scholars across and outside the region, on socialist and postsocialist entertainment television as a medium, technology, and institution"--

subjects: Television broadcasting,  Culture diffusion,  Television programs,  SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies,  HISTORY / Europe / Former Soviet Republics,  History,  Mass media, europe,  Television in politics,  Europe, eastern, social conditions,  Télévision,  Aspect social,  Histoire,  Émissions télévisées,  Diffusion culturelle,  SOCIAL SCIENCE,  Media Studies,  Former Soviet Republics,  PERFORMING ARTS,  Television,  Reference,  Social aspects,  Fernsehen,  Fernsehsendung,  Unterhaltungssendung,  Globalisierung,  Nationalbewusstsein,  Émissions,  Diffusion de la culture,  Culture populaire

Places: Eastern Europe

Times: 20th century