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Constructions of Cultural Identities in Newsreel Cinema and Television after 1945
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Abstract Newsreel cinema and television not only served as an important tool in the shaping of political spheres and the construction of national and cultural identities up to the 1960s. Today's potent televisual forms were furthermore developed in and strongly influenced by newsreels, and much of the archiv... view more
Newsreel cinema and television not only served as an important tool in the shaping of political spheres and the construction of national and cultural identities up to the 1960s. Today's potent televisual forms were furthermore developed in and strongly influenced by newsreels, and much of the archived newsreel footage is repeatedly used to both illustrate and re-stage past events and their significance. This book addresses newsreel cinema and television as a medium serving the formation of cultural identities in a variety of national contexts after 1945, its role in forming audiovisual narratives of a "biopic of the nation", and the technical, aesthetical, and political challenges of archiving and restaging cinematic and televisual newsreel.... view less
Keywords
television; post-war period; cultural identity; national identity; news; cinema
Classification
Media Contents, Content Analysis
General History
Free Keywords
Archive; Contemporary Art; Cultural History; Film; Media; Media History; Media Studies; Newsreel
Document language
English
Publication Year
2016
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
230 p.
Series
MediaAnalysis, 17
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839429754
ISBN
978-3-8394-2975-4
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0