Staging West German democracy : governmental PR films and the democratic imaginary, 1953-1963 /: governmental PR films and the democratic imaginary, 1953-1963. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jan Uelzmann.
• Authors: Uelzmann, Jan
• Contents: Cover page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Epigraph; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction Governmental PR in the "Chancellor Films": A Sociopolitical Archeology of the Adenauer Period; Precursors of the PR Films: Newsreel, Kulturfilm, and Propaganda; Political PR as Special Case of Propaganda in the West German Context; Reading the PR Films as a Sociopolitical Archeology of the Adenauer Years; PR Films as "Deliberate Combination of Image and Word"; PR Films as Products of the West German Newsreel Industry: Definitions and Distinctions The Deutsche Wochenschau as the Preferred Producer of Government PRThe Origins of this Study; The Archival Situation; The Selection of Archival Material; The State of the Research; The Structure of this Study; One Foundational Narratives; Introduction; The Road to Nationhood; The Deutsche Wochenschau as an Instrument of Nation-Building; The Federal Government's PR Needs: Managing Conflicting Desires; Staging Democracy: Promoting Foundational Values through Adenauer; Staging Democracy: The PR Films' Underlying Foundational Values; Two The Deutsche Wochenschau as "Government Channel" IntroductionThe Need to Exert an Influence: Adenauer's Views on the West German Media Landscape; The Founding of the Federal Press Office; The "Büro Otto Lenz" and its Concept of Political PR; The Founding of the Deutsche Wochenschau through the Federal Government; The PR Films' Production Process; Conclusion: The PR Films as "Government Channel"; Three Stability Discourse: The US State Visit Films; Introduction; Humble Beginnings of a Partnership: A Man Advocates for his People (1953); Diplomatic Routine has Arrived: America Revisited (1955) and Aside of Diplomatic Protocol (1955) Diplomacy, Seemingly Eye-to-Eye : Partners in Freedom (1957)Rewriting the US from Occupier to Cold War Ally: Visit of Trust (1959); A Meeting among Friends and Family: Welcome Dr. Adenauer (1961); "Let Them Come to Berlin": Adenauer's Departure from the PR Films in The Federal Republic Greets President Kennedy (1963); Conclusion: Advertising a Political Path Towards Security, Stability, and Prosperity; Four Cold Warrior Discourse: The Return of the "Hero-Father" in Meeting in the Kremlin (1956); Introduction; Planning the Report on a "Trip into the Unknown"; Conclusion: A Failed PR Film? Five The Reconciliation Discourse: The PR Films on the Rapprochement with FranceIntroduction; Staging Performative Acts of Reconciliation at Franco-German Memory Spaces; Onward Towards Europe: Franco-German Relations in 1962; Staging Reconciliation in Two Nations Reconcile (1962); Staging Reconciliation in The Path into the Future (1962); Conclusion: Documents of the Manipulation of Collective memory; Six The Discourse of Connectedness: Adenauer's Bonn as Reluctant, yet Effective "World City"; Introduction; Thematic Precursors and Contemporaries
• Publisher Details: New York : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 320.943087; Mass media and public opinion -- Germany (West); Nation-building -- Germany (West); POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Reference; Germany (West) -- Politics and government -- 1945-1990; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781501347115
• Related ISBNs: 150134711X; 1501347101; 9781501347108
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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