VIEW Issue 5: Television Histories in (Post)Socialist Europe
While recent comparative and transnational approaches in the field of European television history have demonstrated the need for (post)socialist television histories in Europe, there is currently limited scholarship dedicated to this geopolitical area of television in Europe. This area of study has mostly been relegated to the margins of other disciplines and remained isolated by national languages inaccessible to non-native scholars.
This issue is guest edited at the initiative of the European (Post)Socialist Television History Network. It opens up new perspectives on television histories from Eastern Europe and situates this emerging area of study beyond the political histories of the nation-state, Cold War isolation and East-West antagonism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
EditorialDana Mustata
Opening Article
Understanding Socialist Television: Concepts, Objects, Methods Sabina Mihelj
Discoveries
The Eichmann Trial on East German Television Judith Keilbach
Intervision. Searching for Traces Yulia Yurtaeva
Folklore Music on Romanian TV. From State Socialist Television to Private Channels Alexandra Urdea
Explorations
Exploring Transnational Media Exchange in the 1960s Heather Gumbert
Connected Enemies? Programming Transfer between East and West During the Cold War and the Example of East German Television Thomas Beutelschmidt, Richard Oehmig
The Great Époque of the Consumption of Imported Broadcasts. West European Television Channels and Polish Audiences during the System Transition Patryk Wasiak
Italianization Accomplished. Forms and Structures of Albanian Television’s Dependency on Italian Media and Culture Paolo Carelli
East and West on the Finnish Screen. Early Transnational Television in Finland Mari Pajala
Retro Reappropriations. Responses to 'The Thirty Cases of Major Zeman' in the Czech Republic Veronika Pehe
Multiple Faces of the Nostalgia Channel in Russia Ekaterina Kalinina
The Problem of Personality on the Soviet Screen, 1950s–1960s Simon Huxtable
Comparing Socialist and Post-Socialist Television Culture. Fifty Years of Television in Croatia Zrinjka Peruško, Antonija Čuvalo