scholarly journals Understanding Socialist Television

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabina Mihelj
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Television Studies ◽  
Economic Aspects ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Methodological Nationalism ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Cold War

This article develops a number of conceptual and methodological proposals aimed at furthering a firmer agenda for the field of socialist television studies. It opens by addressing the issue of relevance of the field, identifying three critical contributions the study of socialist television can make to media, communication and cultural studies. It then puts forward a number of proposals tied to three key issues: strategies of overcoming the Cold War framework that dominates much of existing literature; the importance of a multilayered analysis of socialist television that considers its cultural, political as well as economic aspects; and the ways in which we can challenge the prevalence of methodological nationalism in the field.

THE ASIAN STUDIES “CRISIS”: PUTTING CULTURAL STUDIES INTO ASIAN STUDIES AND ASIA INTO CULTURAL STUDIES

2004 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Burgess
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Global Changes ◽  
Asian Studies ◽  
Area Studies ◽  
Japanese Studies ◽  
Traditional Area ◽  
The Cold War

This paper explores the link between globalization, as the source of contemporary crises in representation, and the academic crisis in Asian Studies. The situation of Japanese Studies in Australia is used as a case study to illustrate these links. I argue that traditional area studies, as a colonial structure rooted in the (Cold) War, has become anachronistic. It is suggested that one strategy through which conventional area studies may be reconfigured and revitalized is by more fully and warmly embracing those movements or networks such as cultural studies that can be seen as responses to global changes.

scholarly journals Beethoven jako aktor historyczny. Perspektywa mikrohistoryczna w muzykologii

2020 ◽  
pp. 121-132
Author(s):  
Bogumiła Mika
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Musical Composition ◽  
Music Drama ◽  
The People ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Instrumental Works ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The Given

The article focuses on issues of microhistory and the usefulness of  this historiographical practice in musicological research. The author begins by presenting the key issues relating to microhistory,  referring extensively to the book What Is Microhistory? by István  M. Szijártó and Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon. She then quotes and briefly  discusses the most significant musicological works which employed  microhistorical strategy. These are Mark Everist’s book Music Drama  at the Paris Odéon, 1824–1828, Tamara Levitz’s Modernist Mysteries:  Perséphone and Peter J. Schmelz’s article “Shostakovich” Fights the  Cold War: Reflections from Great to Small. The main part of the text  is devoted to Mark Ferraguto’s monograph Beethoven 1806. That publication is wholly based on the microhistorical approach, thus open- ing a new perspective in reflection on the instrumental works by the Master from Bonn. Ferraguto analyses Beethoven’s works from 1806  and early 1807 in the context of the people and the instruments for  which they were composed; he also explores the nature of and reasons  for the composer’s retreat from the „heroic phase”, analysing various  aspects of contemporary musical, social and political life in Vienna.  He does so while concentrating on selected, characteristic moments  which define the given opus. Unlike the earlier musicological works based on the microhistorical strategy, Ferraguto’s monograph is not overburdened with detail,  but makes an excellent job of linking contextual issues with analysis  of musical composition. In this way it enriches musicological research  by providing it with a new, interesting dimension.

Socialist Cosmopolitans in Postsocialist Europe

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-154
Author(s):  
Gertrud Hüwelmeier
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Berlin Wall ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Contract Workers ◽  
Business Partners ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Methodological Nationalism ◽  
Transnational Ties ◽  
Collapse Of Communism ◽  
The Cold War

Prior to the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, thousands of students and tens of thousands of contract workers from Vietnam arrived in socialist ‘fraternal’ countries. A number of them established social and economic relations with locals, compatriots, and migrants from various socialist states in the Cold War period, although they had been discouraged by Vietnamese authorities in creating close personal ties with ‘foreigners’ in general. However, cross border connections became even more important after 1989, as diasporic Vietnamese started to intensify social and economic relations with relatives and business partners in and outside Europe. Based on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork in Berlin, Warsaw, Prague and Hà Nội this paper suggests that transnational ties after the fall of the Berlin Wall are characterized by multi-polar (rather than bi-polar) links, thereby taking into account recent critics on methodological nationalism and challenging the two-nation approach which is still at the heart of most studies of Vietnamese diasporas.

scholarly journals PAKISTAN-TURKEY RELATIONS DURING COLD WAR DECADES: BEYOND RELIGION AND CULTURAL DIMENSIONS

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (02) ◽  
pp. 37-47
Author(s):  
Rahat Shah
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Regional Powers ◽  
Bilateral Relationship ◽  
Bilateral Relations ◽  
Strategic Consensus ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Religious Factors ◽  
The Cold War

This study explores the bilateral relationship between Pakistan and Turkey during the Cold War, in which the bilateral relationship had developed gradually. To understand why it had developed? We must transcend cultural and religious factors. The study argues that the development of bilateral relations was mainly due to the interest of the Western Allies and the strategic consensus between Islamabad and Ankara. Although the Cold War was dominated by bipolarity, in which two superpowers pursued their power and influence globally including the Middle East, it is by no means that other regional powers acted nothing role. Turkey had played a central role in getting Pakistan to join the regional pact, which was in West's strategic interest. Besides, Pakistan and Turkey stood out prominently in terms of the strategic consensus since 1965. Strategic consensus between them has helped to forge cooperation on key issues such as Kashmir and Cyprus. Our analysis shows that relationship between the two countries was caused by these two factors, in which cultural and religious factors are either ineffective or have little impact.

scholarly journals A Republican View of Rhee: The Chicago Tribune’s coverage of Syngman Rhee from 1945 to 1950

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Thomas-Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Chicago Tribune ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Historical Archives ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Global Affairs ◽  
The Cold War

This paper aims to examine the attitude that the Chicago Tribune displayed towards the Korean leader Syngman Rhee from 1945-1950. The Tribune played a key role in providing a voice for conservative Republicans during the first half of the 20th century, under the ownership of Robert McCormick. The paper was split over foreign policy, as it supported stopping Communism abroad but also supported non-intervention in global affairs. The political situation on the Korean Peninsula therefore proved to be an especially challenging topic for the Tribune, as it forced it to choose between combating Communism and non-intervention. In order to ascertain the Tribune’s positions on these key issues, I analyzed articles that had been digitized as part of ProQuest’s historical archives. Throughout this relatively short period of time, the Tribune’s opinion of Rhee varied greatly. It initially supported Rhee as a hero against the Truman state department. After the paper established a reporter in Korea, however, the paper’s attitude shifted, and Rhee was portrayed as an ultranationalist zealot. Ultimately, the Tribune developed a stance of confronting communist advances and supporting anti-Communist governments such as Rhee’s that would hold true for the rest of the cold war.

scholarly journals The exceptionalism of Romanian socialist television and its implications

Panoptikum ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 168-192
Author(s):  
Alexandru Matei ◽  
Annemarie Sorescu- Marinković
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Communist Regime ◽  
Television Studies ◽  
Iron Curtain ◽  
The Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Political Economic

During recent years, the study of European televisions has rediscovered socialist television, and we have witnessed a rapid rise in scholarly interest in a new field of research: socialist television studies. On the whole, this recent body of literaturę presents two main new insights as compared to previous studies in the field of the history of Western television: on the one hand, it shows that European television during the Cold War was less heterogeneous than one may imagine when considering the political, economic and ideological split created by the Iron Curtain; on the other hand, it turns to and capitalizes on archives, mostly video, which have been inaccessible to the public. The interactions between Western and socialist mass culture are highlighted mainly with respect to the most popular TV programs: fiction and entertainment. The authors give us an extraordinary landscape of the Romanian socialist television. Unique in the Eastern part of Europe is the period of the early 1990s. Upon the fall of the communist regime, after almost 15 years of freezing, TVR found itself unable to move forward.

The Cold War and Chinese Policy toward the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1963–1975

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-174
Author(s):  
Gangzheng She
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Palestine Liberation Organization ◽  
Chinese Policy ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Arab Israeli Conflict ◽  
War Experience ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The U.S

This article explores the key issues in China's changing relations with the Arab countries and Israel from 1963 to 1975. Based on interviews, archival sources, and other materials, the article shows Beijing's attempts to justify its self-portrait as the only genuine patron of “national liberation movements” and to help foster the conditions for revolution in the Middle East by supporting a “people's war” against Israel. Although this radical design failed after the liquidation of Palestinian guerrillas in Jordan in the 1970s and the U.S.-Chinese rapprochement soon thereafter, the Sino-Soviet competition in the 1970s still gave enormous impetus to the visibility of the Palestine Liberation Organization in the international arena. The article discusses the roles of Chinese Communist leaders and diplomats in formulating Beijing's policy toward the Arab-Israeli conflict, which also served Mao Zedong's domestic mobilization before and during the Cultural Revolution. The article thus highlights a special connection across the international and domestic dimensions of China's Cold War experience.

scholarly journals Memory, post-socialism and the media: Nostalgia and beyond

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabina Mihelj
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
The State ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Conceptual Frameworks ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Cold War

While research on the mediation of post-socialist memory has gained momentum in recent years, the field remains fragmented and limited to small-scale case studies, with little attempt to develop a more general reflection on the nature of the processes investigated. Engagement with the wider literature on the mediatisation of memory has been limited as well, with research typically applying established conceptual frameworks rather than using post-socialist materials to generate new theoretical insights. Given the state of the field, this article has a double aim. First, it offers a critical review of the main trends in existing research, focussing on four key issues: the fascination with nostalgic modes of remembering, the dominance of national frames of analysis, the lack of research on the mediation of personal and vernacular remembering, and the privileging of descriptive over explanatory modes of analysis. Second, this article outlines a new agenda for the field and proposes three main research trajectories. The first pays attention to how mediated memories at local and national levels interact with transnational processes of remembering the Cold War, the second focusses on the intersections between personal and public modes of mediated remembering, and the last moves the discussion from description to explanation, using comparative approaches to advance explanations of different modes of mediated post-socialist memories.

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