The Cold War was a media phenomenon. It was a daily cultural political
struggle for the hearts and minds of ordinary people—and for
government leaders, a struggle to undermine their enemies’ ability
to control the domestic public sphere. This collection examines how
this struggle played out on screen, radio, and in print from the late
1970s through the early 1990s, a time when breaking news stories such
as Ronald Reagan’s “Star Wars” program and Mikhail Gorbachev’s
policy of glasnost captured the world’s attention. Ranging from the
United States to the Soviet Union and China, these essays cover
photojournalism on both sides of the Iron Curtain, Polish punk,
Norwegian film, Soviet magazines, and more, concluding with a
contribution from Stuart Franklin, one of the creators of the iconic
“Tank Man” image during the Tiananmen Square protests. By
investigating an array of media actors and networks, as well as
narrative and visual frames on a local and transnational level, this
volume laysthe groundwork for writing media into the history of the
late Cold War.
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ISBN
9783319983820
Publisert
2018
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Palgrave Macmillan
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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