Popular Television in Eastern Europe During and Since Socialism

"This collection of essays responds to the recent surge of interest in popular television in Eastern Europe. This is a region where television's transformation has been especially spectacular, shifting from a state-controlled broadcast system delivering national, regional, and heavily filtered Western programming to a deregulated, multi-platform, transnational system delivering predominantly American and Western European entertainment programming. Consequently, the nations of Eastern Europe provide opportunities to examine the complex interactions among economic and funding systems, regulatory policies, globalization, imperialism, popular culture, and cultural identity.This collection will be the first volume to gather the best writing, by scholars across and outside the region, on socialist and postsocialist entertainment television as a medium, technology, and institution"--

Timothy Havens is an Associate Professor of Television and Media Studies in the Department of Communication Studies and the Program in African American Studies at the University of Iowa.

Aniko Imre is an Assistant Professor of Critical Studies at the School of Cinematic Arts of the University of Southern California.

Katalin Lustyik is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the School of Communication of Ithaca College, and a Regional Visiting Fellow at the Institute of European Studies at Cornell University.