Between fear and freedom : cultural representations of the Cold War / by Kathleen Starck.

The field of Cold War studies has recently undergone a cultural turn. Scholars from many disciplines outside - but increasingly also from Otherin - diplomatic history have come to understand that, just as the Cold War was marked by a political and military competition, it was also characterised by a cultural one. As a result, it is now widely accepted that everyday culture was itself infused Other political and ideological messages. The Cold War was ubiquitous. In an attempt to comprehend this ...

Includes bibliographical references and index.

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; FILM; THE RISE AND FALL OF SOCIALIST REALISM IN POLISH CINEMA (1949-1956); EAST, WEST, AND IN-BETWEEN; INVASION NARRATIVES AND THE COLD WAR IN THE 1950S AMERICAN SCIENCE-FICTION FILM; I AM BETTER THAN YOU ARE; PROPAGANDA; LOVING THE BOMB; SOVIET ACTIVE MEASURES AGAINST PIUS XII; THE COLD WAR AND PROPAGANDA, IDEOLOGY AND CONSPIRACY THEORIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST; POPULAR CULTURE; ELVIS PRESLEY AND MCCARTHYISM; "TWO TRIBES"; THE BUILDING BATTLE; THE NEW SUPER-POWERED CONFLICT; LITERATURE; POLARISING MASCULINITIES IN A COLD WAR DISCOURSE.

THE COLD FACTS?RETROSPECTIVE ANCHORING OF THE SOVIET REPRESSIVE SYSTEM; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX.

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