The Fall of the Berlin Wall in Selected Feature Films and Documentaries – from Media Fever to the Perspective of a Symbolic Intermediary
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https://doi.org/10.31261/SSP.2021.18.07Keywords:
the Berlin Wall, the year 1989, film, television, mediumAbstract
In this article, Marta Brzezińska-Pająk looks at the Berlin Wall through the prism of selected feature films and documentaries relating to the events of 1989. The starting point of her considerations is the assumption that the media dimension was particularly important at the final stage of the history of the Berlin Wall. Television played an important role, among other things, in documenting the steps leading to the political breakthrough of 1989, as reflected in the films analyzed by Brzezińska-Pająk. The ways in which they present the medium of the television in the context of the fall of the Berlin Wall not only relate to the historical circumstances in which this medium functioned, but also have a symbolic potential in that they allow us to see in this wall a medium of sorts which defined the unusual nature of the German-German border.
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