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.
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