Television Beyond and Across the Iron Curtain

Television Beyond and Across the Iron Curtain
Author: Kirsten Bönker
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2016-09-23
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1443816434

From the mid-1950s onwards, the rise of television as a mass medium took place in many East and West European countries. As the most influential mass medium of the Cold War, television triggered new practices of consumption and media production, and of communication and exchange on both sides of the Iron Curtain. This volume leans on the long-neglected fact that, even during the Cold War era, television could easily become a cross-border matter. As such, it brings together transnational perspectives on convergence zones, observations, collaborations, circulations and interdependencies between Eastern and Western television. In particular, the authors provide empirical ground to include socialist television within a European and global media history. Historians and media, cultural and literary scholars take interdisciplinary perspectives to focus on structures, actors, flow, contents or the reception of cross-border television. Their contributions cover Albania, the CSSR, the GDR, Russia and the Soviet Union, Serbia, Slovenia and Yugoslavia, thus complementing Western-dominated perspectives on Cold War mass media with a specific focus on the spaces and actors of East European communication. Last but not least, the volume takes a long-term perspective crossing the fall of the Iron Curtain, as many trends of the post-socialist period are linked to, or pick up, socialist traditions.

Truman Capote

Truman Capote
Author: Truman Capote
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 402
Release: 1987
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780878052752

"The thing I like to do most in the world is talk," Capote once said, & talk he does in the more than two dozen interviews collected in this book.

Zhou Enlai

Zhou Enlai
Author: Wenqian Gao
Publisher: Public Affairs
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 158648415X

This first authoritative biography of the Premier of the Peoples Republic of China from 1949 to 1976, this volume offers an objective human portrait of one of the most important, most mythologized leaders in the history of communist China, based long-secret, classified documents. Photos.

Volume 8, Tome III: Kierkegaard's International Reception – The Near East, Asia, Australia and the Americas

Volume 8, Tome III: Kierkegaard's International Reception – The Near East, Asia, Australia and the Americas
Author: Jon Stewart
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2017-05-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1351874241

Although Kierkegaard's reception was initially more or less limited to Scandinavia, it has for a long time now been a highly international affair. As his writings were translated into different languages his reputation spread, and he became read more and more by people increasingly distant from his native Denmark. While in Scandinavia, the attack on the Church in the last years of his life became something of a cause célèbre, later, many different aspects of his work became the object of serious scholarly investigation well beyond the original northern borders. As his reputation grew, he was co-opted by a number of different philosophical and religious movements in different contexts throughout the world. The three tomes of this volume attempt to record the history of this reception according to national and linguistic categories. Tome III is the most geographically diverse, covering the Near East, Asia, Australia and the Americas. The section on the Near East features pioneering articles on the Kierkegaard reception in Israel, Turkey, Iran and the Arab world. The next section dubbed 'Asia and Australia' features articles on the long and rich traditions of Kierkegaard research in Japan and Korea along with the more recent ones in China and Australia. A final section is dedicated to Americas with articles on Canada, the United States, hispanophone South America, Mexico and Brazil.

Music, Life, and Changing Times: Selected Correspondence Between British Composers Elizabeth Maconchy and Grace Williams, 1927–77

Music, Life, and Changing Times: Selected Correspondence Between British Composers Elizabeth Maconchy and Grace Williams, 1927–77
Author: Jenny Doctor
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 601
Release: 2020-03-25
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1000090019

At this book's core is a critical edition of letters exchanged over 50 years between Anglo-Irish composer Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994) and the Welsh composer Grace Williams (1906-1977). These two innovative and talented women are highly regarded for their music, their professional activities and their roles in British musical life. The edition comprises around 200 letters from 1927 to 1977, none of which have been published before, along with scholarly introductions and contextualizations. Interwoven commentaries, in tandem with carefully constructed appendices, frame the letter texts. Moreover, the commentaries and introductory essays highlight and track the development of important themes and issues that characterize the study of twentieth-century British music today. This edition presents a dialogue, through both sides of a unique correspondence, offering an alternative commentary on musical and cultural developments of this period.

The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. V: Later Essays

The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. V: Later Essays
Author: William Butler Yeats
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 376
Release: 1994-09-30
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1439106185

Compiling nineteen essays and introductions, a volume with explanatory notes includes Per Amica Silentia Lunae and On the Boiler as well as introductions on Shelley and Balzac and essays on Irish poetry and politics.

The Impossible Takes Longer

The Impossible Takes Longer
Author:
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2007-10-02
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 0802716377

Quotations from Nobel Prize winners are grouped by such topics as achievement, beliefs, life and death, human qualities, emotions, human relations, knowledge and learning, arts and culture, places, politics, science, medicine, and war and peace.