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.
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.
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.
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.
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.