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Bad Vibes: Images of Communication, Emotional Balance and Health in East German Television, 1970s-1980s

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dc.creatorSchnädelbach, Sandra
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-08T14:01:27Z
dc.date.available2021-01-08T14:01:27Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractAnalysing health education films from the German Democratic Republic broadcast on TV during the 1970s and 1980s, this paper explores how emotions were framed as health risks and how this framing corresponded with socialist ideas on communication and media theory. I argue that television offered an ideal medium for updating traditions of social hygiene and that it served as a means to the socialist concept of “emotional education”. Television and public health met in highlighting socialist ideas on social interaction: health education aimed at cultivating trust to reduce organic diseases. At the same time, creating trust and intimacy was one of the main promises of the new medium, a function bolstered by its location in the home. To achieve these, they turned to the emotional effects of the spoken word.en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.18146/view.222
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/15369
dc.identifier.urihttp://viewjournal.eu/articles/10.18146/view.222/
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/16179
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherNetherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
dc.publisher.placeHilversum
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0969
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
dc.subjectFernsehende
dc.subjectDDRde
dc.subjectGesundheitde
dc.subjectGerman Democratic Republicen
dc.subjecttelevisionen
dc.subjecthealthen
dc.subjectemotionen
dc.subject.ddcddc:070
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.titleBad Vibes: Images of Communication, Emotional Balance and Health in East German Television, 1970s-1980sen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2021-05-29T06:17:10
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://doi.org/10.18146/view.222
local.source.epage111
local.source.issue18
local.source.spage97
local.source.volume9

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