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Exploring Transnational Media Exchange in the 1960s
No full textIn this article, Heather Gumbert uses archival and contemporary writing to reflect on and historicize discussion of the significance of imported programming in Europe in the 1960s, especially in the German Democratic Republic. Imported programming was a cornerstone of the television schedules of national broadcasters, particularly in “television poor” eastern European countries, with implications for the ways in which those broadcasters could shape the visions projected to their audiences
‘Looking Up, Looking Down’: Huldiging van 100 jaar vliegkunst tijdens het 22e Pordenone Silent Film Festival, Sacile, 11-18 Oktober 2003
No full textValt het te betwisten dat de ontwikkeling van de aviatiek een sleutelmoment is in de geschiedenis van de moderniteit en de moderne media? Zouden we niet kunnen stellen dat het vliegtuig het moderne medium bij uitstek is, niet alleen als transportmiddel maar ook als onthullende instantie van een nieuw gezichtspunt? Bovendien is zijn technologische (Victoriaanse) voorgeschiedenis nauw verweven met die van de cinematograaf. Het is precies de verstrengeling van deze twee voorgeschiedenissen, de aërodynamica en de bewegingsfotografie (of chronofotografie), die als uitgangspunt diende voor het programma ‘Taking to the Air: Early Film and Early Flight’ van Stephen Herbert en Luke McKernan. Dat dit programma een plaats kreeg in het Italiaanse Pordenone Silent Film Festival is niet zo verwonderlijk, aangezien er in Italië een echte (voorvaderlijke) passie voor de luchtvaart bestaat
Het mysterieuze voortbestaan van de ZENDTIJD POLITIEKE PARTIJEN
No full textThis article researches the origin of party political broadcasts (ZPP/ZENDTIJD POLITIEKEPARTIJEN) and endeavours to find an answer to the questions: why does it exist in the first place,and why does it continue to survive despite the low viewing figures, the low ratings and the bad experiences of the political parties involved? The article shows that the ZPP is, on the one hand, an unintentional and, for the large parties, unnecessary inheritance from the time ofpillarization and the resulting allocation of broadcasting time, yet, on the other hand, is very important for smaller parties. Furthermore, the ZPP is a special opportunity to make controlled publicity available in a time when ‘media logic’ is increasing in political debates. Lastly, the article considers the attitude of Dutch politics to the introduction of new kinds of media
Multiple Faces of the Nostalgia Channel in Russia
No full textThis article seeks to study Russian niche channel Nostalgia, which started broadcasting in 2004, and in particular, to explore the reasons behind founding this channel and the functions it fulfils, as envisioned by the channel’s producers. The analysis is informed by semi-structured interviews with the channel’s two main representatives – the producer and the first editor-in-chief, and content analysis of the programme, which was briefly examined for general attitude towards the Soviet past. At the same time this article aims at providing thorough insight into conceptualization of nostalgia relying upon the data from the interviews
East and West on the Finnish Screen: Early Transnational Television in Finland
No full textResearch on Finnish television history has so far emphasized Western influences. However, the Finnish television environment was also shaped in many ways by contacts with socialist television cultures. This article analyses the first volume of the television magazine Katso to trace the various transnational relations, which shaped the early Finnish television environment and to discuss the cultural meanings of socialist television in this environment. Nearly every issue of Katso in 1960 discusses television in a transnational context. Transnational themes fall into four categories: (1) learning about television in other countries; (2) the Eurovision and Nordvision networks; (3) watching television across national borders (Swedish and Tallinn television but also television across surprising distances); and (4) visions of world television. Katso’s understanding of television emphasizes the literal meaning of television: to see far. The magazine sets no clear limits to what television could do in terms of overcoming physical distance and ideological borders. The magazine avoids overt politics in discussing television from both the West and the East and represents television broadcasting from Tallinn as a potential source of popular television for Finnish audiences
Folklore Music on Romanian TV: From State Socialist Television to Private Channels
No full textThis article explores specific televised folklore performances of muzică populară in Romania as ‘media rituals.’ I argue that this particular kind of folklore performance can be analysed as television genre. The article follows different articulations of this genre from its televised appearances on the public television channel in the last decades of the communist period to the post-1989 niche television stations specialised in folklore. The changes in the form of the genre, and the negotiations of value and authenticity that take place through the televised performances reveal the role of television in disseminating a social poetics of the nation state
‘The Schneiderverse’: Nickelodeon, Convergent Television and Transmedia Storytelling
No full textThis article will analyse the textual features of two recent and successful American-based Nickelodeon shows, both of which incorporate digital and social technologies into their sitcom-style format. Aimed at a tween-girl1 audience, these ‘convergence comedies’2 complicate traditional notions of media spectatorship and the distinctions between media producers and consumers as audiences are invited to participate in the processes of production. While media convergence is built into the visual style of both shows, the shows themselves converge to create a shared fictional world, dubbed the ‘Schneiderverse,’ which traverses the boundary between the real and the fictional. It will be considered how the audience’s media experience3 could be enriched through immersion in the online spaces associated with the texts
Media History in the Netherlands: Some Observations1 (1993)
No full textArticle published in 1993 in GBG-nieuws related to a seminar on Media History in the Netherlands. Republished in 2014 in Tijdschrift voor mediageschiedenis in the context of a seminar held in september 2014 at Sound and Vision on the past 25 years of Media History and its future
Geluid Als Kunst: De uitvinding van de Nederlandse radiohoorspeltraditie
No full textKan geluid kunst zijn? Het is een vraag die licht wezenloos klinkt, want natuurlijk kan dat. De muziekgeschiedenis bewijst dat. Muziek is een kunstvorm die bij uitstek de gevoeligheid van de menselijke emotie voor geluid benut. Melodisch geluid wel te verstaan. Maar kan kunst ook ontstaan met gewone, alledaagse geluiden? Misschien zelfs met geluiden die kunstmatig worden opgewekt? Het zijn vragen die nadrukkelijk werden gesteld door mensen die bij de vroegste ontwikkeling van de radioprogrammering waren betrokken. In de beantwoording ervan lag de kiem van wat een lange kunstzinnige traditie zou worden: het hoor- of luisterspel