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American Cold War Culture
Author | : Douglas Field |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Cold War |
ISBN | : UOM:39015060862193 |
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This book guides the reader through recent and established theories as well as introducing a number of previously neglected themes, films and texts.
Cold War Cultures
Author | : Annette Vowinckel,Marcus M. Payk,Thomas Lindenberger |
Publsiher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780857452436 |
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The Cold War was not only about the imperial ambitions of the super powers, their military strategies, and antagonistic ideologies. It was also about conflicting worldviews and their correlates in the daily life of the societies involved. The term "Cold War Culture" is often used in a broad sense to describe media influences, social practices, and symbolic representations as they shape, and are shaped by, international relations. Yet, it remains in question whether -- or to what extent -- the Cold War Culture model can be applied to European societies, both in the East and the West. While every European country had to adapt to the constraints imposed by the Cold War, individual development was affected by specific conditions as detailed in these chapters. This volume offers an important contribution to the international debate on this issue of the Cold War impact on everyday life by providing a better understanding of its history and legacy in Eastern and Western Europe.
Rethinking Cold War Culture
Author | : Peter J. Kuznick,James Gilbert |
Publsiher | : Smithsonian Institution |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2013-04-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781588344151 |
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This anthology of essays questions many widespread assumptions about the culture of postwar America. Illuminating the origins and development of the many threads that constituted American culture during the Cold War, the contributors challenge the existence of a monolithic culture during the 1950s and thereafter. They demonstrate instead that there was more to American society than conformity, political conservatism, consumerism, and middle-class values. By examining popular culture, politics, economics, gender relations, and civil rights, the contributors contend that, while there was little fundamentally new about American culture in the Cold War era, the Cold War shaped and distorted virtually every aspect of American life. Interacting with long-term historical trends related to demographics, technological change, and economic cycles, four new elements dramatically influenced American politics and culture: the threat of nuclear annihilation, the use of surrogate and covert warfare, the intensification of anticommunist ideology, and the rise of a powerful military-industrial complex. This provocative dialogue by leading historians promises to reshape readers' understanding of America during the Cold War, revealing a complex interplay of historical norms and political influences.
The Cultural Cold War
Author | : Frances Stonor Saunders |
Publsiher | : The New Press |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 2013-11-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781595589422 |
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During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy's most cherished possession—but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders reveals the extraordinary efforts of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West were working for or subsidized by the CIA—whether they knew it or not. Called "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 home, drawing together declassified documents and exclusive interviews to expose the CIA's astonishing campaign to deploy the likes of Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Robert Lowell, George Orwell, and Jackson Pollock as weapons in the Cold War. Translated into ten languages, this classic work—now with a new preface by the author—is "a real contribution to popular understanding of the postwar period" (The Wall Street Journal), and its story of covert cultural efforts to win hearts and minds continues to be relevant today.
The Culture of the Cold War
Author | : Stephen J. Whitfield |
Publsiher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1996-05-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0801851955 |
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In a new epilogue to this second edition, he extends his analysis from the McCarthyism of the 1950s, including its effects on the American and European intelligensia, to the civil rights movement of the 1960s and beyond.
American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War
Author | : Steven Belletto,Daniel Grausam |
Publsiher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2012-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781609381134 |
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Authors and artists discussed include: Joseph Conrad, Edwin Denby, Joan Didion, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Allen Ginsberg, Frank Berbert, Richard Kim, Norman Mailer, Malcolm X, Alan Nadel, and John Updike,
Southern Literature Cold War Culture and the Making of Modern America
Author | : Jordan J. Dominy |
Publsiher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2020-01-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781496826428 |
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During the Cold War, national discourse strove for unity through patriotism and political moderation to face a common enemy. Some authors and intellectuals supported that narrative by casting America’s complicated history with race and poverty as moral rather than merely political problems. Southern Literature, Cold War Culture, and the Making of Modern America examines southern literature and the culture within the United States from the period just before the Cold War through the civil rights movement to show how this literature won a significant place in Cold War culture and shaped the nation through the time of Hillbilly Elegy. Tackling cultural issues in the country through subtext and metaphor, the works of authors like William Faulkner, Lillian Smith, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker, and Walker Percy redefined “South” as much more than a geographical identity within an empire. The “South” has become a racially coded sociopolitical and cultural identity associated with white populist conservatism that breaks geographical boundaries and, as it has in the past, continues to have a disproportionate influence on the nation’s future and values.
Recasting America
Author | : Lary May |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226511764 |
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"The freshness of the authors' approaches . . . is salutary. . . . The collection is stimulating and valuable."—Joan Shelley Rubin, Journal of American History