As memories of the Cold War recede, it becomes more and more difficult
to remember what it was about and why it evoked such feelings of
intensity and fatalism. Fortunately, we have a gold mine of movies and
novels to help us recall why an entire generation of Americans grew up
ducking under school desks in air raid drills and stocking the family
bomb shelter. Cold War Fantasies retrieves those times, based on the
idea that a nation's history, self-concept, and collective anxiety are
reflected in popular culture. In Cold War Fantasies, Ronnie Lipschutz
combines an historical account of foreign and domestic politics from
1945 to 1995 with summaries and analyses of thirty novels and films
contemporaneously published and produced. Lipschutz rejects the
standard line on the Cold War and critically examines the impacts and
effects of language and images on politics. Viewing those films and
reading those novels enables the reader to come away with a clearer
sense of how people felt during the Cold War period—about
themselves, about 'the enemy,' and about the world while living in the
shadow of the atomic bomb.
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ISBN
9780742573949
Publisert
2015
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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