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.