Television, Sabina Mihelj and Simon Huxtable delve into the fascinating world of television
under communism, using it to test a new framework for comparative media analysis. To …

The significance of the media can hardly be overestimated. They transmit, create and store
information and in so doing influence perception, knowledge and memory. They put their …

Über die spannungsreiche Beziehung zwischen staatlicher Kontrolle des westlichen
Medienkonsums in der DDR und dessen alltäglicher Nutzung. Die DDR konnte sich nur im …

The main aim of this book is to contribute to the growing research field of public diplomacy
during the Cold War. This volume presents a series of articles brought together on the …

Informal dimensions of European integration have received limited academic attention to
date, despite their historical and contemporary importance. Particularly studies in European …

This essay investigates the construction of forensic audio expertise in the legal and security
system of Communist Czechoslovakia and shows that the contested nature of speaker …

Why were Hollywood producers eager to film on the other side of the Iron Curtain? How did
Western computer games become popular in socialist Czechoslovakia's youth paramilitary …

At the close of World War II, the BBC Director General called for radio that was 'firmly British
in character'. This article tells two stories about how sound was used to produce the nation in …

In her analysis of trends in internationalism after the Second World War, Sandrine Kott
explores “to what extent the Cold War gave rise to one or more specific ways of expressing …

Political science's failure in the 1990s to articulate a continuity between communism and
post-communism was another source of inspiration. As simple as it may seem, the …