Space Race Television

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Space Race Television is written by Sven Grampp and published by Springer Nature. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3658439718 (ISBN 10) and 9783658439712 (ISBN 13).

This volume offers a media-theoretically oriented perspective on the Space Race. It analyzes feature films, documentaries, live television coverage, magazines, stamps, posters, ticker-tape parades. They visualized the Space Race in a specific way and circulated it transnationally from 'East' to 'West' and from 'West' to 'East' across the 'Iron Curtain'. It will be shown how reporting on the Space Race between 1955 and 1975 can be explained as a globalizing history of the intertwining of images during the Cold War.