Don't need no thought control : Western culture in East Germany and the fall of the Berlin Wall / Gerd Horten

Englisch

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, 2020

xi, 256 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 24 cm

Quellen- und Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 229-250

Erscheint auch als: Online-Ausgabe- Don't need no thought control. - New York : Berghahn Books, 2020. - 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 256 Seiten)

978-1-78920-733-0 hardback

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-1-78920-734-7 (Fernzugriff) ebook

9781789207330

*Deutschland <DDR> / Massenmedien / Massenkultur / Verwestlichung / Politische Kultur

*Deutschland <Bundesrepublik> / Deutschland <DDR> / Kulturkontakt

*Westliche Welt / Massenmedien / Konsumgesellschaft / Einfluss / Deutschland <DDR> / Alltagskultur / Wirtschaftskrise / Gesellschaft / Geschichte 1970-1989

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 943.10877; ; 306.09431; ; 943.108723;

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation:

The fall of the Berlin Wall is typically understood as the culmination of political-economic trends that fatally weakened the East German state. Meanwhile, comparatively little attention has been paid to the cultural dimension of these dramatic events, particularly the role played by Western mass media and consumer culture. With a focus on the 1970s and 1980s, Don’t Need No Thought Control explores the dynamic interplay of popular unrest, intensifying economic crises, and cultural policies under Erich Honecker. It shows how the widespread influence of (and public demands for) Western cultural products forced GDR leaders into a series of grudging accommodations that undermined state power to a hitherto underappreciated extent.

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