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Newsreel cinema and television not only served as an important tool in the shaping of political spheres and the construction of national and cultural identities up to the 1960s. Today's potent televisual forms were furthermore developed in and strongly influenced by newsreels, and much of the archived newsreel footage is repeatedly used to both illustrate and re-stage past events and their significance. This book addresses newsreel cinema and television as a medium serving the formation of cultural identities in a variety of national contexts after 1945, its role in forming audiovisual narratives of a »biopic of the nation«, and the technical, aesthetical, and political challenges of archiving and restaging cinematic and televisual newsreel.

Motion picture theaters. --- Cinemas --- Movie theaters --- Moving-picture theaters --- Theaters, Motion picture --- Theaters --- Archive. --- Contemporary Art. --- Cultural History. --- Cultural Identity. --- Film. --- Media History. --- Media Studies. --- Media. --- National Identity. --- Television. --- Newsreels --- Motion picture journalism --- Documentary films --- Documentary television programs --- Television --- Group identity --- National characteristics in motion pictures --- History. --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects. --- Newsreel; Film; Television; Archive; National Identity; Cultural Identity; Contemporary Art; Media; Cultural History; Media History; Media Studies