ABSTRACT
Contemporary approaches in media history are used here to analyze the role of cinema and television in twentieth-century culture, economy, and politics in particular. Tracking the transformation of visual cultures, Anikó Imre applies a post-colonial critique both to great works of high art and to popular cultures in Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth century. She argues that the gradual globalization of the dominant visual languages characterizing the region have actually been tied to highly specific power relations and institutional arrangements in socialist and post-socialist times.
