Langbeschreibung
This book looks at contributions to Cold War cinema from a wide range of countries and genres, and articulates how all participants in the Cold War utilised the film industry as a tool for propaganda, and how the Cold War itself shaped both the creative and the critical output of the period. It was published as a special issue of Cold War History.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface 1. Meeting on the Elbe (Vstrecha na El¿be): A visual representation of the incipient Cold War from a Soviet perspective 2. `Declaration of Love on Celluloid¿: The depiction of the Berlin Wall in a GDR film, 1961-62 3. `The Maltz Affair¿ revisited: How the American Communist Party relinquished its cultural influence at the dawn of the Cold War 4. `Don¿t Mention the Soviets!¿ An overview of the short films produced by the NATO Information Service between 1949 and 1969 5. The destruction of New York City: A recurrent nightmare of American Cold War cinema 6. Hollywood¿s insidious charms: the impact of American cinema and television on the Soviet Union during the Cold War 7. The Cold War¿s cultural ecosystem: angry young men in British and Soviet cinema, 1953-1968 8. The Search for Legitimacy in Post-Martial Law Poland: The Case of Claude Lanzmann¿s