Remapping Cold War Media

Why were Hollywood producers eager to film on the other side of the Iron Curtain? How did Western computer games become popular in socialist Czechoslovakia's youth paramilitary clubs? What did Finnish commercial television hope to gain from broadcasting Soviet drama?

Cold War media cultures are typically remembered in terms of an East-West binary, emphasizing conflict and propaganda. Remapping Cold War Media, however, offers a different perspective on the period, illuminating the extensive connections between media industries and cultures in Europe's Cold War East and their counterparts in the West and Global South. These connections were forged by pragmatic, technological, economic, political, and aesthetic forces; they had multiple, at times conflicting, functions and meanings. And they helped shape the ways in which media circulates today-from film festivals, to satellite networks, to coproductions.

Considering film, literature, radio, photography, computer games, and television, Remapping Cold War Media offers a transnational history of postwar media that spans Eastern and Western Europe, the Nordic countries, Cuba, the United States, and beyond. Contributors draw on extensive archival research to reveal how media traveled across geopolitical boundaries; the processes of translation, interpretation, and reception on which these travels depended; and the significance of media form, content, industries, and infrastructures then and now.

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edited by Alice Lovejoy and Mari Pajala

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**Media from the Cold War is often remembered in terms of conflict and propaganda, of a binary East and West. The reality during this era, however, was that film, television, radio, and other media were creating a global discourse between Eastern Europe, the West, and even the Global South.

*Drawing on methods in media and literary history, *Remapping Cold War Media offers new perspectives on the transnational aspects of Cold War media. Contributors analyze countries around the world, including Cuba, Finland, Italy, and more, to provide a fuller picture of a significant and complex media culture. They look past state-sanctioned or tolerated media to trace a web of connections that crossed and extended Europe's divided media landscape. The volume's extensive archival research reveals the creation of cross-bloc satellite communications, the work of Western film producers in Eastern Europe, the influence of Soviet theories of socialist realism in Latin America, and more. These international dynamics, the volume poses, were less frequently motivated by large-scale ideological concerns and more often by pragmatic matters such as professional practices and standards, technology and infrastructure, and economics.

As a whole, Remapping Cold War Media deftly demonstrates that the cultural history of media during the Cold War cannot simply be described as a binary conflict. Rather, it requires us to consider a global set of interactions that helped establish the ways media circulates today.

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Acknowledgments
Note on Translation

1. Introduction, by Alice Lovejoy and Mari Pajala
   Part I: Mobile Forms
   2. Stalin Boulevard: Panoramic Vistas and Urban Planning in Eastern European Photobooks, by Katie Trumpener
2. The Peace Train: Anticosmopolitanism, Internationalism, and Jazz on Czechoslovak Radio during Stalinism, by Rosamund Johnston
3. Soviet Drama with Commercial Breaks: Living the Cold War in 1970s Finnish Television, by Anu Koivunen
   Part II: Distribution, Adaptation, Reception
   5. Soviet Cinema in 1960s Cuba: Between Cold War Logics and Thirdworldist Affinities, by Masha Salazkina
4. From the Antechamber to the International Stage: Early-Career Directors from Hungary at the Mannheim Film Festival in the Late 1970s, by Sonja Simonyi
5. Manic Miners of the World, Unite! How the British Hit Computer Game Got a Second Life in Czechoslovakia, by Jaroslav svelch
6. Between Scripts: Radio Berlin International (RBI) and Its Swedish Audience in November 1989, by Marie Cronqvist
   Part III: Translation
   9. On Soviet Spoken Cinema, by Elena Razlogova
7. A GDR Writer in America: Christa Wolf's Visit to Oberlin and the Circulation of Her Writing as World Literature, by Brangwen Stone
8. Translating Cold War Internationalism: Allegoresis in Ryszard Kapusìcinìski's Literary Reportage, by Marla Zubel
9. Traveling with the President: Finnish-Soviet State Visits and 1970s Television Diplomacy, by Laura Saarenmaa
   Part IV: Infrastructure and Production
   13. Hollywood Going East: State-Socialist Studios' Opportunistic Business with American Producers, by Petr Szczepanik
10. Envisioning the Revolutionary South: The Soviet-Italian Coproduction Life is Beautiful (1979), by Stefano Pisu
11. Dividing the Cosmos? INTELSAT, Intersputnik, and the Development of Transnational Satellite Communications Infrastructures During the Cold War, by Christine Evans and Lars Lundgren
12. Spy from the Cloud: From Big Brother to Big Data, by Anikó Imre
    Index