American representations of post-communism

By Andaluna Borcila

Subjects: Mass media, united states, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, Mass media, Post-communism, Postcommunisme, In mass media, Post-communism, europe, eastern, Journalism, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Eastern (see also Russian & Former Soviet Union), Dans les médias

Description: "With the televised events of 1989, territories of Eastern and Central Europe that had been marked as impenetrable and inaccessible to the Western gaze exploded into visibility. As the narratives of the Cold War crumbled, new narratives emerged and new geographies were produced on and by American television. Using an understudied archive of American news broadcasts, and tracing their flashes and echoes through travel guides and narratives of return written by Eastern European-Americans, this book explores American ways of seeing and mapping communism's disintegration and the narratives articulated around post-communist sites and subjects"--