Airy Curtains in the European Ether: Broadcasting and the Cold War

Dr. Alexander Badenoch; Prof. Dr. Andreas Fickers; PD Dr. Christian Henrich-Franke

doi:10.5771/9783845236070

Summary

This book aims at emphasizing the important role of broadcasting as central actor in the creation of a transnational and European communication space during the period of the Cold War. Its methodological design aims at linking the study of the circulation and appropriation of cultural performances with awareness for the crucial role of broadcast technologies as mediators and catalysts of cultural transfers. In studying Europe as a Cold War broadcasting space by describing and analyzing different transmission and reception technologies and by questioning their specific contribution to the medial construction of a transnational communication space in constantly changing political and cultural environments we hope to enlarge our understanding of the role of civil and institutional actors in the creation of transnational communities and European networks. It addresses media historians as well as historians of international relations, especially regarding the Cold War and European integration.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2013
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8329-7225-7
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8452-3607-0
Publisher: Nomos, Baden-Baden
Series: Historische Dimensionen Europäischer Integration
Volume: 15
Language: English
Pages: 376
Product type: Edited Book

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 6
List of Acronyms (Organizations) No access Pages 7 - 8
Airy Curtains in the European Ether: Introduction No access Pages 9 - 26 Alexander Badenoch, Andreas Fickers, Christian Henrich-Franke
1. Threat or Beacon? Recasting International Broadcasting in Europe after World War II No access Pages 27 - 50 Jennifer Spohrer
2. Undermining a Dictatorship: International Broadcasts to Portugal, 1945-1974 No access Pages 51 - 76 Nelson Ribeiro
3. Cold War techno-diplomacy: Selling French Colour Television to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe No access Pages 77 - 98 Andreas Fickers
1. Eavesdropping on Europe: The tape recorder and East-West relations among European recording amateurs in the Cold War era No access Pages 99 - 122 Karin Bijsterveld
2. Calling Out to Tune in: Radio Free Europe in Czechoslovakia No access Pages 123 - 148 Trever Hagen
3. Geographies of Power: The case of foreign broadcasting in dictatorial Romania No access Pages 149 - 174 Dana Mustata
1. Making Holes in the Iron Curtain? – The Television Programme Exchange across the Iron Curtain in the 1960s and 1970s No access Pages 175 - 214 Christian Henrich-Franke, Regina Immel
2. Mari Pajala
  1. control the world’s information flows – Soviet Cold War broadcasting No access Mari Pajala
3. “Removing Some of the Romantic Aura of Distance and Throwing Merciless Light on the Weaknesses of American Life”: Transatlantic Tensions of Telstar, 1961-1963 No access Pages 271 - 294 James Schwoch
1. Between Rock and Roll and a Hard Place: ‘Pirate’ radio and the Problems of Territory in Cold War Europe No access Pages 295 - 320 Alexander Badenoch
2. Jamming the RIAS. Technical Measures against Western broadcasting in East Germany (GDR) 1945–1989 No access Pages 321 - 346 Christoph Classen
3. Interfering with Auntie. An Uncomfortable Reception – Jamming the BBC No access Pages 347 - 358 Andy O’Dwyer
1. Broadcasting and the Cold War: Some preliminary results No access Alexander Badenoch, Andreas Fickers, Christian Henrich-Franke
List of contributors No access Pages 375 - 376