Neuerscheinung: Institut für Europ. Regionalforschungen, Band 15

Airy Curtains in the European Ether: Broadcasting and the Cold War, ed. by A. Badenoch | A. Fickers | Chr. Henrich-Franke, Nomos: Baden-Baden 2013.

Table of contents

 

• Airy Curtains in the European Ether: Introduction
  Alexander Badenoch/ Andreas Fickers/ Christian Henrich-Franke

 

 

I. Regulation and Control of Broadcasting in Cold War Europe

• Threat or Beacon? Recasting International Broadcasting in Europe after World War II
  Jennifer Spohrer
• Undermining a Dictatorship: International Broadcasts to Portugal, 1945-1974
  Nelson Ribeiro
• Cold War techno-diplomacy: Selling French Colour Television to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
  Andreas Fickers

 

 

II. The European Communication Space and the Subversive Circulation Culture

• Eavesdropping on Europe: The tape recorder and East-West relations among European recording amateurs in the Cold War era
  Karin Bijsterveld
• Calling Out to Tune in: Radio Free Europe in Czechoslovakia
  Trever Hagen
• Geographies of Power: The case of foreign broadcasting in dictatorial Romania
  Dana Mustata

 

 

III. Connections and Spill Overs: Europe as a United Communication Space

• Making Holes in the Iron Curtain? – The Television Programme Exchange across the Iron Curtain in the 1960s and 1970s
  Christian Henrich-Franke/ Regina Immel
• Intervision song contests and Finnish television between East and West'
  Mari Pajala
• To control the world’s information flows – Soviet Cold War broadcasting
  Simo Mikkonen
• “Removing Some of the Romantic Aura of Distance and Throwing Merciless Light on the Weaknesses of American Life”: Transatlantic Tensions of Telstar, 1961-1963
  James Schwoch

 

 

IV. Disconnections and Fragmentations: Europe as a Jamming Session

• Between Rock and Roll and a Hard Place: ‘Pirate’ radio and the Problems of Territory in Cold War Europe
  Alexander Badenoch
• Jamming the RIAS. Technical Measures against Western broadcasting in East Germany (GDR) 1945–1989
  Christoph Classen
• Interfering with Auntie. An Uncomfortable Reception – Jamming the BBC
  Andy O’Dwyer

 

 

V. Conclusion

• Broadcasting and the Cold War: Some preliminary results
  Alexander Badenoch/ Andreas Fickers/ Christian Henrich-Franke