Popular Television in Eastern Europe During and Since Socialism

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Popular Television in Eastern Europe During and Since Socialism is written by Anikó Imre and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0415892481 (ISBN 10) and 9780415892483 (ISBN 13).

This collection of essays responds to the recent surge of interest in popular television in Eastern Europe. This is a region where television's transformation has been especially spectacular, shifting from a state-controlled broadcast system delivering national, regional, and heavily filtered Western programming to a deregulated, multi-platform, transnational system delivering predominantly American and Western European entertainment programming. Consequently, the nations of Eastern Europe provide opportunities to examine the complex interactions among economic and funding systems, regulatory policies, globalization, imperialism, popular culture, and cultural identity.This collection will be the first volume to gather the best writing, by scholars across and outside the region, on socialist and postsocialist entertainment television as a medium, technology, and institution.