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I. POPULAR TELEVISION IN SOCIALIST TIMES
1 Television Entertainment in Socialist Eastern Europe: Between Cold War Politics and Global Developments / Sabina Mihelj, 13
2 Adventures in Early Socialist Television Edutainment / Aniko Imre, 30
3 Television in the Age of (Post)Communism: The Case of Romania / Dana Mustata, 47
4 The Carnival of the Absurd: Stanislaw Bareja's Alternatywy and Polish Television in the 1980s / Dorota Ostrowska, 65
5 An Evening with Friends and Enemies: Political Indoctrination in Popular East German Family Series / Katja Kochanowski, Sascha Trültzsch, Reinhold Viehoff, 81
II. COMMERCIAL GLOBALIZATION AND EASTERN EUROPEAN TV
6 From a Socialist Endeavour to a Commercial Enterprise: Children's Television in East-Central Europe / Kati Lustyik, 105
7 Intra-European Media Imperialism: Hungarian Program Imports and the Television Without Frontiers Directive / Timothy Havens, Evelyn Bottando, and Matthew S. Thatcher, 123
8 To Be Romanian in Post-Communist Romania: Entertainment Television and Patriotism in Popular Discourse / Adina Schneeweis, 141
9 Quest for Viewers: How Polish Broadcasters Employ American TV Series in Competition over Audiences / Sylvia Szostak, 159
III. TELEVISION AND NATIONAL IDENTITY ON EUROPE'S EDGES
10 Big Brothers and Little Brothers: National Identity in Recent Romanian Adaptations of Global Television Formats / Alice Bardan, 177
11 The Way We Applauded: How Popular Culture Stimulates Collective Memory of the Socialist Past in Czechoslovakia - the Case of the Television Serial Vyprávej and Its Viewers / Irena Carpentier Reifová, Katerina Gillárová, Radim Hladík, 199
12 Coy Utopia: Politics in the First Hungarian TV Soap / Ferenc Hammer, 222
13 Why Must Roma Minorities Be Always Seen on the Stage and Never in the Audience? Children's Opinions of Reality Roma TV / Annabel Tremlett, 241
14 Racing for the Audience: National Identity, Public TV and the Roma in Post-Socialist Slovenia / Ksenija Vidmar-Horvat, 259