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Staging West German democracy : governmental PR films and the democratic imaginary, 1953-1963

Title
Staging West German democracy : governmental PR films and the democratic imaginary, 1953-1963 / Jan Uelzmann.
Author
Uelzmann, Jan
Publication
  • New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2019.
  • ©2019

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Description
xii, 351 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Summary
"Staging West German Democracy examines how political 'founding discourses' of the nascent Federal Republic (FRG) were reflected, reinforced, and actively manufactured by the Federal government in conjunction with the West German, state-controlled newsreel system, the Deutsche Wochenschau. By looking at the institutional history of the Deutsche Wochenschau and its close relationship to the Federal Press Office, Jan Uelzmann traces the Adenauer administration's project of maintaining a "government channel" in an increasingly diverse, de-centralized, and democratic West German media landscape. Staging West German Democracy reconstructs the company's integral role in the planning, production, and dissemination of pro-government PR, and through detailed analyses reveals the films to celebrate the FRG as an economically successful and internationally connected democracy under Adenauer's leadership. Apart from providing election propaganda for Adenauer's CDU party, these films provided an important stabilizing factor for the FRG's project of explaining and promoting democracy to its citizens, and of defining its public image against the backdrops of the Third Reich past and a competing, contemporary incarnation of German nationhood, the German Democratic Republic (GDR). In this regard, Staging West German Democracy adds in important ways to our understanding of the media's role in the West German nation building process"--
Series Statement
New directions in German studies ; vol. 24
Uniform Title
New directions in German studies ; v. 24.
Subject
  • Deutsche Wochenschau
  • 1900-1999
  • Motion picture journalism > Germany (West) > History
  • Newsreels > Political aspects > History. > Germany (West)
  • Motion pictures in propaganda > Germany (West)
  • Propaganda, German > History > 20th century
  • Motion picture journalism
  • Motion pictures in propaganda
  • Politics and government
  • Propaganda, German
  • Germany (West) > Politics and government > 1945-1990
  • Germany (West)
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages [323-331) and index.
Contents
Introduction. Governmental PR in the "chancellor films" : a sociopolitical archeology of the Adenauer period -- Foundational narratives -- The Deutsche Wochenschau as "government channel" -- Stability discourse : the US state visit films -- Cold warrior discourse : the return of the "hero-father" in Meeting in the Kremlin -- The reconciliation discourse : the PR films on the rapprochement with France -- The discourse of connectedness : Adenauer's Bonn as reluctant, yet effective "world city" -- The father of the nation discourse : building Adenauer's legacy -- Conclusion. Staging West German democracy through PR films.
Call Number
MFL 19-2940
ISBN
  • 9781501347108
  • 1501347101
LCCN
  • 2019003759
  • 40029092404
OCLC
1041886843
Author
Uelzmann, Jan, author.
Title
Staging West German democracy : governmental PR films and the democratic imaginary, 1953-1963 / Jan Uelzmann.
Publisher
New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2019.
Copyright Date
©2019
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
New directions in German studies ; vol. 24
New directions in German studies ; v. 24.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [323-331) and index.
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Other Form:
Online version: Uelzmann, Jan, author. Staging West German democracy New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019 9781501347122 (DLC) 2019009172
Other Standard Identifier
40029092404
Research Call Number
MFL 19-2940
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