Andrada Fătu-Tutoveanu & Rubén Jarazo Álvarez (eds.), Press, Propaganda and Politics: Cultural Periodicals in Francoist Spain and Communist Romania

This collective work aims to compare media (and in particular cultural press) in Francoist Spain and Communist Romania, placing the two opposing paradigms in a common approach with the intention of identifying shared patterns and intricate connections between them, but, at the same time, without ignoring their radical differences. This comparison is performed both explicitly (through several chapters focusing on the general methodological implications of such a comparison between Francoist Spain and Communist Romania in the development of totalitarian / dictatorial propagandistic systems; and implicitly, by offering the academic frame to a series of case studies from both regimes. The contributors to this volume –Spanish, Anglo-Saxon and Romanian scholars – approach several aspects of media in relation to politics, propaganda, historical or social aspects in the two regimes, based on their academic backgrounds: history, cultural studies, media and literature. The volume intends to suggest - through its collection of general, comparative or analytic chapters, as well as through a new approach on two political and cultural phenomena otherwise studied as opposing paradigms – the need for a larger debate on the potential of the approach to these phenomena in a common framework.

The book was printed to Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

     Table of contents:

    List of Tables.......................................................... viii

List of Illustrations................................................... ix

Foreword................................................................... x

Acknowledgments................................................... xv

Part I: Comparing Francoism and Communism

Chapter One............................................................... 2

Francoism and Communism: A Historical Approach

(Àlex Amaya Quer and Manuela Marin)

Chapter Two............................................................ 14

Comparing Francoism and Communism: Methodological Issues and Implications (Florin Abraham)

Chapter Three.......................................................... 32

War of Words: Similarities and Differences between Francoist Spain and Communist Romania in the Development of Totalitarian Propagandistic Systems (Àlex Amaya Quer)

Part II: Francoist Cultural Press

Chapter Four............................................................ 56

Surviving Literature: Literary Subgenres Published in the Spanish Periodical Press (1936-1975) (Rubén Jarazo Álvarez)

Chapter Five............................................................ 80

Anglophilia and Popular Culture in the Francoist Spanish Press: The Case of Shakespearean Representations (Elena Domínguez Romero)

Chapter Six.............................................................. 96

Pro-German Press and Literature in North-Western Spanish Cultures during the World War I (1914-1918) (Joám Evans Pim)

Chapter Seven........................................................ 106

Cultural Revival and Internationalization of Galician Press

(1900-1945) (Adrian Healy)

Chapter Eight......................................................... 117

The Rise of Syndicalism in the United States (1933-1945)

as Reflected in the Spanish Press (María Luz Arroyo Vázquez)

Part III: Communism and 1950s Romanian Cultural Press

Chapter Nine.......................................................... 130

Periodicals, Propaganda and Politics in Romanian Culture: Media Discourse Strategies in the 1950s Romanian Cultural Periodicals. Case Study: Flacăra and Contemporanul (Andrada Fătu-Tutoveanu)

Chapter Ten........................................................... 156

Ascribing a New Political Identity: Women during the 1950’s. A Case Study on Săteanca Magazine (Manuela Marin)

Chapter Eleven...................................................... 173

Between East and West: Rival Discourses of Identity in Romanian Historiography (1954-1964) (Andi Mihalache)

Chapter Twelve...................................................... 189

Media Censorship and the Local Periodical Gazeta Transilvaniei (1943-1945) (Ruxandra Nazare)

Chapter Thirteen.................................................... 213

Press, Libraries and Secret Funds in Romania (1945-1989): Case Study (Daniel Nazare)

Contributors........................................................... 227

Index...................................................................... 230