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Title Cold War cultures : perspectives on Eastern and Western societies / edited by Annette Vowinckel, Marcus M. Payk, and Thomas Lindenberger
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (x, 385 pages) : illustrations
Contents European Cold War Culture(s)?: An Introduction; Part I. Mediating the Cold War: Radio, Film, Television, and Literature; Chapter 1. East European Cold War Culture(s): Alterities, Commonalities, and Film Industries; Chapter 2. "We Started the Cold War": A Hidden Message behind Stalin's Attack on Anna Akhmatova; Chapter 3. Radio Reform in the 1980s: RIAS and DT-64 Respond to Private Radio; Chapter 4. The Enemy Within: (De)Dramatizing the Cold War in U.S. and West German Spy TV from the 1960s; Chapter 5. Cold War Television: Olga Korbut and the Munich Olympics of 1972; Part II. Constructing Identities: Representations of the "Self"; Chapter 6. Catholic Piety in the Early Cold War Years, or How the Virgin Mary Protected the West from Communism
Chapter 7. The Road to Socialism Paved with Good Intentions: Automobile Culture in the Soviet Union, Romania, and the GDR During Détente; Chapter 8 -- Advertising, Emotions, and "Hidden Persuaders": The Making of Cold-War Consumer Culture in Britain from the 1940s to the 1960s; Chapter 9. Survival in the Welfare Cocoon: The Culture of Civil Defense in Cold War Sweden; Part III. Crossing the Border: Interactions with the "Other"; Chapter 10. The Peace and the War Camps: The Dichotomous Cold War Culture in Czechoslovakia: 1948-1960 ; Chapter 11. Artistic Style, Canonization, and Identity Politics in Cold War Germany, 1947-1960; Chapter 12. What Does Democracy Look Like? (And Why Would Anyone Want to Buy It?): Third World Demands and West German Responses at 1960s World Youth Festivals
Chapter 13. Drawing the East-West Border: Narratives of Modernity and Identity in the Northeastern Adriatic (1947-1954); Part IV. The Legacies of the Cold War: Remembrance and Historiography; Chapter 14. A 1950s Revival: Cold War Culture in Reunified Germany; Chapter 15. The Mikson Case: War Crimes Memory, Estonian Identity Reconstructions, and the Transnational Politics of Justice; Chapter 16. The First Cold War Memorial in Berlin: A Short Inquiry into Europe, the Cold War, and Memory Cultures; Notes on Contributors; Index
Summary 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
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Subject Cold War -- Social aspects -- Europe
Cold War -- Social aspects -- Europe, Eastern
Cold War -- Social aspects -- Europe, Western
Cold War in literature.
Cold War in motion pictures.
Cold War in mass media.
HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
Cold War (1945-1989) in literature
Cold War (1945-1989) in mass media
Cold War (1945-1989) in motion pictures
Social aspects
Europe
Eastern Europe
Western Europe
Form Electronic book
Author Vowinckel, Annette, editor.
Payk, Marcus M., editor.
Lindenberger, Thomas, 1955- editor.
ISBN 9780857452443
0857452444