{"617583":{"#nid":"617583","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Staging West German Democracy: Governmental PR Films and the Democratic Imaginary","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EStaging West German Democracy\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eexamines how political \u0026ldquo;founding discourses\u0026rdquo; of the nascent Federal Republic (FRG) were reflected, reinforced, and actively manufactured by the Federal government in conjunction with the West German, state-controlled newsreel system, the Deutsche Wochenschau. By looking at the institutional history of the Deutsche Wochenschau and its close relationship to the Federal Press Office,\u0026nbsp;JanUelzmann\u0026nbsp;traces the Adenauer administration\u0026#39;s project of maintaining a \u0026ldquo;government channel\u0026rdquo; in an increasingly diverse, de-centralized, and democratic West German media landscape.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EStaging West German Democracy\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;reconstructs the company\u0026#39;s integral role in the planning, production, and dissemination of pro-government PR, and through detailed analyses reveals the films to celebrate the FRG as an economically successful and internationally connected democracy under Adenauer\u0026#39;s leadership.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nApart from providing election propaganda for Adenauer\u0026#39;s CDU party, these films provided an important stabilizing factor for the FRG\u0026#39;s project of explaining and promoting democracy to its citizens, and of defining its public image against the backdrops of the Third Reich past and a competing, contemporary incarnation of German nationhood, the German Democratic Republic (GDR). In this regard,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EStaging West German Democracy\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eadds in important ways to our understanding of the media\u0026#39;s role in the West German nation building process.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/us\/staging-west-german-democracy-9781501347108\/\u0022\u003EBook Announcement\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Dr. Jan Uelzmann, Professor of German, publishes new book "}],"uid":"34815","created_gmt":"2019-02-11 15:48:49","changed_gmt":"2019-02-11 15:48:49","author":"esnelling3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-02-11T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-02-11T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"617582":{"id":"617582","type":"image","title":"Staging West German Democracy","body":null,"created":"1549899693","gmt_created":"2019-02-11 15:41:33","changed":"1549899693","gmt_changed":"2019-02-11 15:41:33","alt":"","file":{"fid":"235070","name":"jan book.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/jan%20book.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/jan%20book.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":25520,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/jan%20book.jpg?itok=cn5t912v"}}},"media_ids":["617582"],"groups":[{"id":"612000","name":"Atlanta Global Studies Center (AGSC)"},{"id":"611608","name":"Global Media and Cultures (GMC)"},{"id":"1284","name":"School of Modern Languages"},{"id":"554011","name":"_OLD: School of Modern Languages Student Blog"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEmily Snelling\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMarketing and Events Coordinator\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["esnelling3@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}