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Festive television in the socialist world: From media events to media holidays
posted on 19.07.2016, 08:25 by Simon Huxtable, Sabina MiheljSabina Mihelj, Alice Bardan, Sylwia Szostak
This article focuses on the ways in which socialist television sought to create a sense of extraordinary temporality out of the ordinary through its coverage of historical commorations, national days, and secular and religious festivities. To do so, it develops the notion of 'media holidays', which draws on Dayan and Katz's seminal notion of media events, and the work of other scholars of media ritual to show the ways in which socialist television created extraordinary temporalities through scheduling. Drawing on schedule analysis and archival documents, the article compares the cases of television in East Germany, the Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia. It examines a number of different kinds of media holiday on socialist television, and shows how different kinds of holidays and commemoration were marked with different kinds of programming in which entertainment played an important role.
Journal of Popular Television
HUXTABLE, S. ...et al., 2017. Festive television in the socialist world: From media events to media holidays. Journal of Popular Television, 5 (1), pp. 49-67.
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This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Journal of Popular Television and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1386/jptv.5.1.49_1
https://doi.org/10.1386/jptv.5.1.49_1
TelevisionMedia eventsMedia ritualsCommemorationSchedulingSocialismCommunism