Cold War Culture: Media and the Arts, 1945-1990
- ISBN-10
- 0816031045
- ISBN-13
- 9780816031047
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 376
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- Checkmark Books
- Author
- Richard Alan Schwartz
Description
Relates issues under such topics as dance, art, consumer goods, film, television, and toys to American culture during the Cold War
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2016-04-04
- 256 pages
- Ebook
- Bloomsbury Publishing
-
- 2016-04-04
- 256 pages
- Ebook
- Bloomsbury Publishing
Similar books
-
Rethinking Cold War Culture
By James Gilbert, Peter J. KuznickJames Agee, Agee on Film (New York. McDowell, Obolensky, 1958), 53. . Allan Berube suggests that the drag numbers in This in the Army created a “subplot about homosexuality" (perceived at least among gay members of the cast and ...
-
The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters
By Frances Stonor SaundersCalled "the most comprehensive account yet of the [CIA’s] activities between 1947 and 1967" by the New York Times, the book presents shocking evidence of the CIA’s undercover program of cultural interventions in Western Europe and at ...
-
Rethinking Cold War Culture
By James Gilbert, Peter J. KuznickSchlesinger Jr., “The Crisis of American Masculinity,” in The Politics of Hope (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1963), 237–46. 40.“The Screen,” New YorkTimes (August 16, 1950). For other quotationsand valuable analysis, seeSteven Watts, ...
-
Cold War Cultures: Perspectives on Eastern and Western European Societies
By Annette Vowinckel, Marcus M. Payk, Thomas LindenbergerThis volume offers an important contribution to the international debate on how the Cold War's impact on everyday life in Eastern and Western Europe.
-
Across the Blocs: Exploring Comparative Cold War Cultural and Social History
By Rana Mitter, Patrick MajorThis book asks the reader to reassess the Cold War not just as superpower conflict and high diplomacy, but as social and cultural history.
-
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
By Louis MenandDiop, Senghor, Césaire, Fanon, Abrahams, Wright, Hughes, and Baldwin were all there. 7. The 1er Congrès des Écrivains et Artistes Noirs opened on the morning of September 19, 1956, in the Amphithéâtre Descartes at the Sorbonne, ...
-
Cultures at War: The Cold War and Cultural Expression in Southeast Asia
By Tony Day, Maya H. T. LiemThe essays in this book offer the most detailed and probing examination to date of the cultural dimension of the Cold War in Southeast Asia.
-
American Cold War Culture
By Douglas FieldAlthough it is fifty years since the height of the Cold War, recent events have seen a resurgence of surveillance, paranoia and nuclear threats. Cultural critics and politicians are drawing...
-
The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation
By Tom EngelhardtThis book is a compelling account of how a national narrative of triumph through which Americans bad always sustained themselves as a people underwent a vertiginous decomposition from Hiroshima to Vietnam.
-
American Cold War Culture
By Douglas FieldThis book taps into this interest, drawing on work from prominent academics as well as new theorists working in the field of Cold War Studies.American Cold War Culture guides the reader through recent and established theories as well as ...