Forthcoming volume: "Press, Propaganda and Politics", Edited by Andrada Fătu-Tutoveanu and Rubén Jarazo Álvarez

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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.

Andrada Fătu-Tutoveanu, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Researcher, holding a PhD (2009) from “Babeş-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She is currently conducting a research project on identity within Romanian media, and is also a member of the international research project EXPERT, P.J. Safarik University, Kosice, Slovakia, where she gives regular lectures. In 2011 she was a Visiting Scholar at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB), Spain. Her academic work and teaching cover cultural studies, comparative literature, gender studies and cultural journalism.

Rubén Jarazo Álvarez, PhD, is presently a Lecturer at the University of the Balearic Islands (Spain). He has previously worked at the University of A Coruña (Spain), the National University of Ireland Galway (Ireland), and as Visiting Lecturer at the Dublin City University (Ireland), University of the Arts London (United Kingdom), or at the New York University (United States). He has been investigating in the influence of Anglo-phone and Galician literatures as well as the economic, cultural and identity implications of these interactions and has recently been working on areas such as cultural industry/production, Anglo-Irish theatre in the XVIII and XIX centuries, Celtic cultures, William Shakespeare and censorship, translation studies and minority languages, as well as peripheral representations in Western culture, amongst other issues. He is editor of Cultural Studies academic journals Garoza (2001-present day), and Oceánide (2009-present day).

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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