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Television and politics --- Television broadcasting --- Mass media --- Social aspects --- Television and politics - Europe --- Television broadcasting - Europe --- Television broadcasting - Social aspects - Europe --- Mass media - Social aspects - Europe

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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

Mass communications --- Eastern and Central Europe --- Television broadcasting --- Television programs --- Culture diffusion --- Social aspects --- History --- Telecasting --- Television --- Television industry --- Broadcasting --- Mass media --- Cultural diffusion --- Diffusion of culture --- Culture --- Social change --- Programs, Television --- Shows, Television --- Television shows --- TV shows --- Electronic program guides (Television) --- Television scripts --- E-books --- Television broadcasting - Social aspects - Europe, Eastern --- Television broadcasting - Europe, Eastern - History - 20th century --- Television programs - Europe, Eastern --- Culture diffusion - Europe, Eastern