Censorship as a vocation: The institutions, practices, and cultural logic of media control in the German Democratic Republic

Comparative Studies in Society and History

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 511-545

  Boyer, Dominic ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; MEDIA ROLE; POLITICAL HISTORY; REGULATORY APPROACH;

GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC;

EID: 0141450401     PISSN: 00104175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0010417503000240     Document Type: Article

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