Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations viii
4. Acknowledgments x
5. Introduction. Disempowering a Dictatorship: Media and Consumer Culture in East Germany 1
6. Chapter 1. Successful Media Campaigns in East Germany in the 1960s and 1970s: The Vietnam War and the 1972 Olympics 19
7. Chapter 2. Fade Out: Hollywood Movie Imports and the Cultural Surrender of the GDR Film Control in the 1970s and 1980s 54
8. Chapter 3. The Westernization of East German Television in the 1970s and 1980s 88
9. Chapter 4. Fighting against All Odds: GDR Popular Music and Youth Radio in an International Context 123
10. Chapter 5. Western Consumer Culture or Bust: Intershops and East German Consumption Policies in the 1970s and 1980s 160
11. Epilogue. Out with the Old—in with the New? Wende, Ostalgie, and the Serpentine Unifi cation 199
12. Bibliography 229
13. Index 251