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Staging West German Democracy - Governmental PR Films and the Democratic Imaginary, 1953-1963 (Paperback)
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Staging West German Democracy - Governmental PR Films and the Democratic Imaginary, 1953-1963 (Paperback)
Series: New Directions in German Studies
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Staging West German Democracy examines how political "founding
discourses" of the nascent Federal Republic (FRG) were reflected,
reinforced, and actively manufactured by the Federal government in
conjunction with the West German, state-controlled newsreel system,
the Deutsche Wochenschau. By looking at the institutional history
of the Deutsche Wochenschau and its close relationship to the
Federal Press Office, Jan Uelzmann traces the Adenauer
administration's project of maintaining a "government channel" in
an increasingly diverse, de-centralized, and democratic West German
media landscape. Staging West German Democracy reconstructs the
company's integral role in the planning, production, and
dissemination of pro-government PR, and through detailed analyses
reveals the films to celebrate the FRG as an economically
successful and internationally connected democracy under Adenauer's
leadership. Apart from providing election propaganda for Adenauer's
CDU party, these films provided an important stabilizing factor for
the FRG's project of explaining and promoting democracy to its
citizens, and of defining its public image against the backdrops of
the Third Reich past and a competing, contemporary incarnation of
German nationhood, the German Democratic Republic (GDR). In this
regard, Staging West German Democracy adds in important ways to our
understanding of the media's role in the West German nation
building process.
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