Role of Federal Agencies in Post-War Reconversion1

The first book-length study in English of a national corpus of state-sponsored informational film, this book traces how Danish shorts on topics including social welfare, industry, art and architecture were commissioned, funded, produced and reviewed from the inter-war period to the 1960s. For three decades, state-sponsored short filmmaking educated Danish citizens, promoted Denmark to the world, and shaped the careers of renowned directors like Carl Th. Dreyer. Examining the life cycle of a representative selection of films, and discussing their preservation and mediation in the digital age, this book presents a detailed case study of how informational cinema is shaped by, and indeed shapes, its cultural, political and technological contexts.The book combines close textual analysis of a broad range of films with detailed accounts of their commissioning, production, distribution and reception in Denmark and abroad, drawing on Actor-Network Theory to emphasise the role of a wide range of entities in these processes. It considers a broad range of genres and sub-genres, including industrial process films, public information films, art films, the city symphony, the essay film, and many more. It also maps international networks of informational and documentary films in the post-war period, and explores the role of informational film in Danish cultural and political history.

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Dammed If You Don’t, But What If You Do? Breaching the Lower Snake River Dams in Washington State

Case Studies in the Environment ◽

10.1525/cse.2019.sc.1036402 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 1-12

Author(s):

Elizabeth C. Lopardo ◽

Clare M. Ryan

Keyword(s):

Policy Process ◽

Food Source ◽

Washington State ◽

Federal Agencies ◽

Snake River ◽

Environmental Groups ◽

Steep Decline ◽

Mitigation Techniques ◽

Economic Analyses

Four dams on the lower Snake River in Washington State generate hydropower and allow for regional agriculture and barge shipping to Portland OR. However, the dams impede the migration of local salmon populations (Oncorhynchus spp.), which are in steep decline, and drastically impact the populations of salmon and orca whales, for whom salmon are a primary food source. For years, environmental groups have argued for breaching the dams; other interests counter that the dams are too critical to the economy of the region to lose; and federal agencies assert that the dams can remain and salmon populations will recover with mitigation techniques. Scientific and economic analyses, litigation, and elected officials’ efforts have not been able to move the issue towards a solution. Readers will examine the interests of primary actors in the issue, how they influence the policy process, the role of scientific and economic analyses, and possible approaches for resolving the issue.

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Charles de Gaulle and European Community

OOO Zhurnal Voprosy Istorii ◽

10.31166/voprosyistorii202010statyi56 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2020 (10-3) ◽

pp. 70-81

Author(s):

David Ramiro Troitino ◽

Tanel Kerikmae ◽

Olga Shumilo

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

European Community ◽

World War ◽

Charles De Gaulle ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

History Of ◽

The Common ◽

Post War ◽

De Gaulle

This article highlights the role of Charles de Gaulle in the history of united post-war Europe, his approaches to the internal and foreign French policies, also vetoing the membership of the United Kingdom in the European Community. The authors describe the emergence of De Gaulle as a politician, his uneasy relationship with Roosevelt and Churchill during World War II, also the roots of developing a “nationalistic” approach to regional policy after the end of the war. The article also considers the emergence of the Common Agricultural Policy (hereinafter - CAP), one of Charles de Gaulle’s biggest achievements in foreign policy, and the reasons for the Fouchet Plan defeat.

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State-run celebration of Liberation Day in Czechoslovakia (based on audiovisual sources)

A day in the calendar. Celebrations and memorial days as an instrument of national consolidation in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century - Central-European Studies ◽

10.31168/2619-0877.2018.1.13 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 251-268

Author(s):

Timur Gimadeev

Keyword(s):

Political Development ◽

Communist Regime ◽

Political Regime ◽

The Political ◽

Historical Experience ◽

History Of ◽

Post War ◽

The 1960S ◽

The Military

The article deals with the history of celebrating the Liberation Day in Czechoslovakia organised by the state. Various aspects of the history of the holiday have been considered with the extensive use of audiovisual documents (materials from Czechoslovak newsreels and TV archives), which allowed for a detailed analysis of the propaganda representation of the holiday. As a result, it has been possible to identify the main stages of the historical evolution of the celebrations of Liberation Day, to discover the close interdependence between these stages and the country’s political development. The establishment of the holiday itself — its concept and the military parade as the main ritual — took place in the first post-war years, simultaneously with the consolidation of the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia. Later, until the end of the 1960s, the celebrations gradually evolved along the political regime, acquiring new ritual forms (ceremonial meetings, and “guards of memory”). In 1968, at the same time as there was an attempt to rethink the entire socialist regime and the historical experience connected with it, an attempt was made to reconstruct Liberation Day. However, political “normalisation” led to the normalisation of the celebration itself, which played an important role in legitimising the Soviet presence in the country. At this stage, the role of ceremonial meetings and “guards of memory” increased, while inventions released in time for 9 May appeared and “May TV” was specially produced. The fall of the Communist regime in 1989 led to the fall of the concept of Liberation Day on 9 May, resulting in changes of the title, date and paradigm of the holiday, which became Victory Day and has been since celebrated on 8 May.

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Towards the Final Legitimation of the Party

10.1093/oso/9780198735854.003.0004 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Piero Ignazi

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Great Britain ◽

Political Parties ◽

Political Party ◽

Sole Source ◽

The Political ◽

Party Formation ◽

Post War ◽

Dominant Influence

Chapter 3 investigates the process of party formation in France, Germany, Great Britain, and Italy, and demonstrates the important role of cultural and societal premises for the development of political parties in the nineteenth century. Particular attention is paid in this context to the conditions in which the two mass parties, socialists and Christian democrats, were established. A larger set of Western European countries included in this analysis is thoroughly scrutinized. Despite discontent among traditional liberal-conservative elites, full endorsement of the political party was achieved at the beginning of the twentieth century. Particular attention is paid to the emergence of the interwar totalitarian party, especially under the guise of Italian and German fascism, when ‘the party’ attained its most dominant influence as the sole source and locus of power. The chapter concludes by suggesting hidden and unaccounted heritages of that experience in post-war politics.

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Politics, industry, and tourism: The conceptual construction of the blue highway

The Journal of Transport History ◽

10.1177/0022526620979506 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 002252662097950

Author(s):

Fredrik Bertilsson

Keyword(s):

Road Network ◽

Power Plants ◽

Community Building ◽

Atlantic Coast ◽

Political Agenda ◽

The Road ◽

Conceptual Construction ◽

On The Road ◽

Post War

This article contributes to the research on the expansion of the Swedish post-war road network by illuminating the role of tourism in addition to political and industrial agendas. Specifically, it examines the “conceptual construction” of the Blue Highway, which currently stretches from the Atlantic Coast of Norway, traverses through Sweden and Finland, and enters into Russia. The focus is on Swedish governmental reports and national press between the 1950s and the 1970s. The article identifies three overlapping meanings attached to the Blue Highway: a political agenda of improving the relationships between the Nordic countries, industrial interests, and tourism. Political ambitions of Nordic community building were clearly pronounced at the onset of the project. Industrial actors depended on the road for the building of power plants and dams. The road became gradually more connected with the view of tourism as the motor of regional development.

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Impegno, national and transnational identities inIl PolitecnicoandSud(1945–1947)

Modern Italy ◽

10.1017/mit.2016.9 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 21 (2) ◽

pp. 157-170

Author(s):

Mila Milani

Keyword(s):

Cultural Perspective ◽

Political Identities ◽

Transnational Identities ◽

Editorial Boards ◽

Intellectual Networks ◽

Post War ◽

Significant Attention ◽

Critical Literature

Long neglected by critical literature and historians, the Neapolitan journalSud(1945–1947) shared similar aims and objectives with the more famousIl Politecnico, although the two journals were inserted into and connected with lively yet different cultural environments and networks, which crucially influenced their outputs. Most notably, both journals paid significant attention to politically committed literary and essay translations. By combining an analysis of the journals’ articles and translations with the editors’ published and unpublished correspondence, the article reassesses the journals’ relationship and illuminates theengagementof the two editorial boards through translations. The analysis of the two intellectual networks and projects will re-establish the relevance ofSudin stimulating a transnational dialogue and will reconsider the role of translation in shaping the editors’ political identities. Finally, the article offers a geo-cultural perspective on post-war Italianimpegnoby charting its multiple, both national and transnational, identities.

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