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Transmission impossible : American journalism as cultural diplomacy in postwar Germany, 1945-1955
- Title
- Transmission impossible : American journalism as cultural diplomacy in postwar Germany, 1945-1955 / Jessica C.E. Gienow-Hecht.
- Author
- Gienow-Hecht, Jessica C. E., 1964-
- Publication
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, ©1999.
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Details
- Description
- xx, 230 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "In this study, Jessica C.E. Gienow-Hecht challenges long-standing analyses of the United States' "cultural imperialism" that emphasize the policy makers' determination to export U.S. culture in order to spread capitalism and gain access to overseas markets and raw materials. She also contests the claims by scholars of reception theory that foreign audiences deliberately condition the reception of U.S. culture abroad. Studying the example of the U.S. Army newspaper the Neue Zeitung - published for the German population from 1945 to 1955 - she convincingly demonstrates that U.S. officials actually exerted very little direct influence on their cultural and information programs in postwar Germany, leaving the initiative to binational midlevel agents.
- Transmission Impossible reveals that the selection of agents who transmit political and cultural values to the foreign world is as crucial to the success of the enterprise as the package of values itself."--BOOK JACKET. "Containing a wealth of fresh information on the use of propaganda in the Cold War, the administrative structure of the U.S. occupation, Soviet-American conflicts, and Jewish biography, this book will be of interest to scholars of U.S. foreign relations, German history, occupation history, ethnicity, sociology, and culture."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Eisenhower Center studies on war and peace
- Uniform Title
- Eisenhower Center studies on war and peace
- Subject
- BMBF-Statusseminar
- Neue Zeitung (Munich, Germany)
- Die Neue Zeitung Frankfurt am Main
- Neue Zeitung
- Die Neue Zeitung <Frankfurt, Main>
- 1945-1955
- International relations
- Reeducation
- Kulturpolitik
- Nieuwsbladen
- Die neue Zeitung : eine amerikanische Zeitung für die deutsche Bevölkerung (tijdschrift)
- Bezettingsmachten
- Culturele invloeden
- Allierades ockupation av Tyskland 1945-1955
- Germany > History > 1945-1955
- United States > Relations > Germany
- Germany > Relations > United States
- Germany
- United States
- Deutschland
- USA
- Förenta staterna > relationer > Tyskland
- Tyskland > relationer > Förenta staterna
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Hochschulschrift.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-215) and index.
- Contents
- Between the Cracks: Birth of an Enterprise, 1944-1945 -- What Is an American? Profiles of the Actors -- Carrots and Sticks: Content of the Neue Zeitung, 1945-1947 -- Culture or Kultur? German and American Perceptions -- Fear Not the SED: The War of Words, 1945-1947 -- Sabotage and Housecleaning: U.S. Cold War Information Politics, 1947-1948 -- Which Way Blow the Winds? U.S. Propaganda and the Struggle for Identity, 1949-1955.
- ISBN
- 0807123102
- 9780807123102
- 0807124095
- 9780807124093
- LCCN
- 98050189
- OCLC
- ocm40433171
- 40433171
- SCSB-869103
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library