Conflict Resolution and the Cold War

Tobias Hochscherf is Professor in Film, Radio and Television at the University of Applied Sciences in Kiel, Germany. He is author of The Continental Connection: German-speaking Émigrés and British Cinema, 1927-45 (2011) and co-author of Beyond the Boundaries: Contemporary Danish Television Drama (2017).Gintaras Aleknonis is Partnership Professor at the Faculty of Communication, Vilnius University, Lithuania. He is the author of The New Censorship (2011) and two other books on histories of Lithuanian Radio and Television: Lithuanian Radio: One Day and 80 Years (2006) and Lithuanian Television: The Colours and the Shadows of the Screen (2007).

• List of IllustrationsList of Pictures and TablesAbbreviationsList of Contributors AcknowledgementsBetween Antagonism and Accord: Media and the Cold War - An IntroductionGintaras Aleknonis (Muthesius Academy of Arts, Germany and Vilnius University, Lithuania) and Tobias Hochscherf (Kiel University of Applied Sciences and the University, Germany)PART I: EARLY ENCOUNTERS1. Doors to the Free World: Former Danish Journalists-in-Exile in the Proto-Cold WarEmil Eiby Seidenfaden (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)2. The Next Most Important British Personage in Moscow? The BBC and Soviet Union during the Early Decades of the Cold WarJames Rodgers (City,University of London, UK)3. Local Media, Paradiplomacy and Conflict Resolution: The Journal of the Society of Friends of Coventry and (West) German-British Relations, 1947-49Christoph Laucht (Swansea University, UK)4. Film Adaptation in the Cold War: The Charterhouse of Parma (1948)Tadas Bugnevicius (Yale University, USA)PART II: COLD WAR NARRATIVES AND STABILISING TRANSFORMATIONS5. Revisions. NS-Regime, Second World War and Holocaust in West-German Documentaries of the Cold War EraThomas Weber (University of Hamburg, Germany)6. When the Cold War Went on Holiday: A Look Behind the Iron Curtain in Richard Thorpe’s The Golden Head (1964)Balázs Varga (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary)7. ‘A film about something else’. Dissemination of Czech Student Films at the Turn of the 1970s and 1980sTereza Czesany Dvoráková (FAMU, Czech Republic) 8. Transnational Television Flow in East Europe in Times of ConflictYulia Yurtaeva-Martens (Film University Babelsberg, Germany) & Lothar Mikos (Film University Babelsberg, Germany)9. Time and Conflict Resolution in Space: Politics and Geopolitics in Classic Doctor Who(1963-89)James Chapman (University of Leicester, UK)PART III: LATE DÉTANTE POLICY, CRITICAL REFLECTIONS AND CULTURAL EXCHANGES10. Spacebridges to Peace: Satellite Television Links, Citizen Diplomacy and US-Soviet Conflict Resolution in the 1980s.Nicholas J. Cull (University of Southern California, USA)11. Semi-legal and Legal Local TV Programmes in the GDR and Unified Germany (1989- 1995): Motives of Early Post-Cold War TV Makers in SaxonyRüdiger Steinmetz (Leipzig University, Germany) and Judith Kretzschmar (Leipzig University, Germany)12. Transformation of the Communist Media and its Anti-Communist Rhetoric During the Period of Social Revival: A Survival StrategyAndrius Vaišnys (Vilnius University, Lithuania)Bibliography Index

Conflict Resolution and the Cold War: Media Encounters across the Iron Curtain offers a unique perspective on how media played a role in reconciliation during the Cold War. Through engaging international case studies, the book reveals how film, radio and television were not only tools of conflict and propaganda, but also vital platforms for dialogue, peacebuilding and cultural exchange, helping to bridge divides and promote peace. By shedding new light on these complex interactions, the book offers fresh insights into this often-overlooked cultural aspect of Cold War history. It is a must-read for scholars and enthusiasts of media history and Cold War studies.