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‘Our Europe’: The Representation of Civil Europe in the Community’s Documentaries

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This chapter shows that the European Community, as other international organizations did in the 1950s and 1960s as well, resorted to the use of film and documentary to publicly communicate the civil side of European integration to a wide European general public. More specifically and based on an analysis of thirty-seven documentaries produced by the European Community, this chapter examines how Civil Europe was represented audio-visually.

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Pukallus, S. (2019). ‘Our Europe’: The Representation of Civil Europe in the Community’s Documentaries. In: The Building of Civil Europe 1951–1972. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03267-8_5

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