Constructions of Cultural Identities in Newsreel Cinema and Television after 1945

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. Contents Introduction: Constructions of Cultural Identities in Newsreel Cinema and Television after 1945 PART 1: CONSTRUCTIONS OF CULTURAL IDENTITIES IN NEWSREEL The Politics of Archives The Creation of Cultural Identity through Weekly Newsreels in Germany in the 1950s West German State Newsreels in the Period of the Economic Miracle 1950–1964 The Visual Memory of the Cold War Art Exhibitions through Newsreels PART 2: ART AND CULTURE IN NEWSREEL, CINEMA, AND TELEVISION Jean Tinguely & Le Corbusier in Swiss Weekly Film Newsreels and Television Fiction and Newsreel Documentary in Godard’s Cinema Between Migration and Integration Re-marking of Differences: Culture Television and Art Interplaying Constructing an Emancipated Culture of Art Spectatorship? Authors

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.