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Constructions of Cultural Identities in Newsreel Cinema and Television after 1945
Kornelia Imesch
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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 ... Read 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Transcript Verlag
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2021
Condition
New
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
, Germany
ISBN
9783837629750
SKU
V9783837629750
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About Kornelia Imesch
Kornelia Imesch (Prof. Dr.) is professor for modern and contemporary art and architecture at the Section d'histoire de l'art, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Sigrid Schade (Prof. Dr.) is head of the Institute for Cultural Studies in the Arts at Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland. Samuel Sieber (PhD) is a researcher in Basel and Zurich, Switzerland.
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