Remapping Cold War Media

Alice Lovejoy is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota. She is author of Army Film and the Avant Garde: Cinema and Experiment in the Czechoslovak Military.Mari Pajala is Senior Lecturer of Media Studies at the University of Turku, Finland. Her work is published in Media History, Television & New Media, and International Journal of Cultural Studies.

• AcknowledgmentsNote on Translation and Transliteration1. Introduction, by Alice Lovejoy and Mari PajalaPart I: Mobile Forms2. Stalin Boulevard: Panoramic Vistas and Urban Planning in Eastern European Photobooks, by Katie Trumpener3. The Peace Train: Anticosmopolitanism, Internationalism, and Jazz on Czechoslovak Radio during Stalinism, by Rosamund Johnston4. Soviet Drama with Commercial Breaks: Living the Cold War in 1970s Finnish Television, by Anu KoivunenPart II: Distribution, Adaptation, Reception5. Soviet Cinema in 1960s Cuba: Between Cold War Logics and Thirdworldist Affinities, by Masha Salazkina6. From the Antechamber to the International Stage: Early-Career Directors from Hungary at the Mannheim Film Festival in the Late 1970s, by Sonja Simonyi7. Manic Miners of the World, Unite! How the British Hit Computer Game Got a Second Life in Czechoslovakia, by Jaroslav Švelch8. Between Scripts: Radio Berlin International (RBI) and Its Swedish Audience in November 1989, by Marie CronqvistPart III: Translation9. On Soviet Spoken Cinema, by Elena Razlogova10. A GDR Writer in America: Christa Wolf's Visit to Oberlin and the Circulation of Her Writing as World Literature, by Brangwen Stone11. Translating Cold War Internationalism: Allegoresis in Ryszard Kapusìcinìski's Literary Reportage, by Marla Zubel12. Traveling with the President: Finnish-Soviet State Visits and 1970s Television Diplomacy, by Laura SaarenmaaPart IV: Infrastructure and Production13. Hollywood Going East: State-Socialist Studios' Opportunistic Business with American Producers, by Petr Szczepanik14. Envisioning the Revolutionary South: The Soviet-Italian Coproduction Life is Beautiful (1979), by Stefano Pisu15. Dividing the Cosmos? INTELSAT, Intersputnik, and the Development of Transnational Satellite Communications Infrastructures during the Cold War, by Christine Evans and Lars Lundgren16. Spy from the Cloud: From Big Brother to Big Data, by Anikó ImreIndex

In some ways, the volume reminds me of a thoughtfully organized musical album in that it tells a story with a beginning, middle and an end. Despite having multiple authors, the story develops logically from one chapter to the next—quite an accomplishment.- Patryk Babiracki, author of Soviet Soft Power in Poland: Culture and the Making of Stalin's New Empire, 1943–1957 Wide-ranging in its Cold War geography, rigorously internationalist, and focused on the concept of media over a variety of forms and methods, Lovejoy and Pajala's volume will set the standard for any future scholarship on the topic.- Rossen Djagalov, author of From Internationalism to Postcolonialism Ballasted by primary sources in all relevant languages, together these meticulously researched essays complicate, through the fluid logic of media, the conventional epochal and geopolitical fault lines of post-WWII cultures. An indispensable volume.- Nataša Ďurovičová, coeditor of World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives