Science on Screen and Paper

Media Cultures and Knowledge Production in Cold War Europe

Mariana Ivanova, Juliane Scholz (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

292 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-635-2 (ISBN)

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During the Cold War, scientific discoveries were adapted and critiqued in many different forms of media across a divided Europe. Now, more than 30 years since the end of the Cold War, Science on Screen and Paper explores the intersections between scientific research and media by drawing from media history, film studies, and the history of science. From public relations material to educational and science films, from children’s magazines to television broadcasts, the contributions in this collected volume seek to embrace medial differences and focus on intersectional themes and strategies for the representation of science.

Mariana Ivanova is Associate Professor for German Film and Media and the Academic Director of the DEFA Film Library at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her monograph, Cinema of Collaboration (Berghahn Books, 2019) was finalist for the international Willy Haas award. Her research has been published in The German Studies Review, The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, and in numerous edited volumes on East German and Central European cinema. Juliane Scholz is coordinator for science communication and public relations at the Collaborative Research Center “Sexdiversity – Determinants, Meanings and Implications of Sex Diversity in Sociocultural, Medical and Biological Landscapes” at the University of Lübeck.

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Introduction: Science and Media in Cold War Europe

Mariana Ivanova and Juliane Scholz

Part I: Institutional and Industrial Contexts

Chapter 1. Whitewashing the Nazi Past: Continuity and Transformation in Scientific Cinematography in Germany, 1934–1956

Juliane Scholz

Chapter 2. Flow Vis for the Space Race: German Science Films in US Education During the Cold War

Mario Schulze

Chapter 3. Raw Film Manufacturing: Between Economic Efficiency and Environmental Awareness in East Germany

Josephine Diecke

Part II: Imaginaries of Self and Other

Chapter 4. Between Cooperation and Competition: Cold War Imaginaries and Representations of US-Soviet Encounters in Space

Darina Volf

Chapter 5. Post-Colonial Science Heroes in East German Science Fiction Films

Evan Torner

Chapter 6. The Culture of Anticipation and Scientific Fiction in Socialist Romania

Doru Aurel Pop

Chapter 7. (Un)Healthy Tunes: Body, Mind, and Music in Socialist Television

Sandra Schnädelbach

Part III: Science in Public and Educational Media

Chapter 8. Science for Children and Adults: The Space Race in Italian Communist Party Publications, 1957-1964

Ettore Costa

Chapter 9. “Effective Films:” Science Film and Education in East Germany

Sophia Gräfe and Kerrin von Engelhardt

Chapter 10. German Technology and Education for ‘Young Nations:’ Cold War Politics and Aesthetics of Development Aid in two West German Governmental PR Films of 1961

Jan Uelzmann

Chapter 11. French Educational Films for Africa: The Question of Decolonization in the 1960s and 1970s

Sarah Stein

Erscheinungsdatum	10.07.2024
Reihe/Serie	Visual and Media Cultures of the Cold War and Beyond
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-80539-635-8 / 1805396358
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-635-2 / 9781805396352
Zustand	Neuware