[ecrea] new book: TV Socialism

*TV Socialism***

/Anikó Imre/

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     “/TV Socialism/ is a comprehensive and highly original 
contribution to television studies, and it will become indispensable in 
socialist/postsocialist studies. Anikó Imre’s scholarship is superior 
and her book is outstanding in its breadth and depth of 
coverage.”—Kristen Ghodsee, author of /The Left Side of History: World 
War II and the Unfulfilled Promise of Communism in Eastern Europe /

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     "Cautioning us against simplistic uses of Anglo-American 
categories of television genres, Anikó Imre explains how the industry 
definitions of genre and audience expectations of genres evolved very 
differently in socialist societies. By defining genre as a 
'transcultural form of expression' rather than as a given set of 
conventions, Imre demonstrates how the genric logic of television is 
embedded in the aesthetic, political, cultural, and ideological 
transformations in socialist and postsocialist societies."— Shanti 
Kumar, author of /Gandhi Meets Primetime: Globalization and Nationalism 
in Indian Television/

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     In /TV Socialism/, Anikó Imre provides an innovative history of 
television in socialist Europe during and after the Cold War. Rather 
than uniform propaganda programming, Imre finds rich evidence of hybrid 
aesthetic and economic practices, including frequent exchanges within 
the region and with Western media, a steady production of varied genre 
entertainment, elements of European public service broadcasting, and 
transcultural, multi-lingual reception practices. These televisual 
practices challenge conventional understandings of culture under 
socialism, divisions between East and West, and the divide between 
socialism and postsocialism. Taking a broad regional perspective 
encompassing Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, Imre foregrounds 
continuities between socialist television and the region’s shared 
imperial histories, including the programming trends, distribution 
patterns, and reception practices that extended into postsocialism. 
Television, she argues, is key to understanding European socialist 
cultures and to making sense of developments after the end of the Cold 
War and the enduring global legacy of socialism.

*Anikó Imre* is Associate Professor and Chair of Critical Studies in the 
School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. She 
is the author of /Identity Games: Globalization and the Transformation 
of Media Cultures in the New Europe./

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Duke University Press

Console-ing Passions

June 2016 328pp 20 illus. 9780822360995 PB £18.99now only £15.19* when 
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