Between Fear and Freedom: Cultural Representations of the Cold War Author: Kathleen Starck Pages: 230 ISBN:978-1443818599 Publication Date: 2010 Format: Hardcover Availability: In Stock List Price in USD: $67.99 Kathleen Starck is Professor of Cultural Studies at Osnabrück University, Germany. She was born and grew up in the German Democratic Republic. Her research interests include Cold War cultures, gender/masculinity studies, postcolonial studies, contemporary drama and post-socialism. Cambridge Scholars Publishing offers readers the extraordinary opportunity to read substantial portions of their books at no charge. To read the Introduction, and part of Chapter 1, please click here. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is offering readers of the LSS Newsletter a 20% discount off the list price. Simply use the offer code "LSSFEAR" at check-out to receive this special discount. For information on ordering, click here.

In an attempt to comprehend this complexity of the superpower conflict, as well as the way it affected and still affects people’s lives globally, this collection of essays brings together the work of scholars from nine countries and a wide range of academic disciplines. They explore strategies, mechanisms and legacies of the Cold War in areas as diverse as film, propaganda, conspiracy theories, education, music, comic books, architecture, fiction, autobiographical writing and theatre.

Between Fear and Freedom: Cultural Representations of the Cold War

Table of Contents

• Preface and Acknowledgements
• Introduction—Why Cold War Cultures Matter
  Kathleen Starck

FILM

• The Rise and Fall of Socialist Realism in Polish Cinema (1949-1956)
  Jan Rek
• East, West, and In-Between: Marginal Cold War Identities in Shadows in Paradise and Ariel
  Sanna Peden
• Invasion Narratives and the Cold War in the 1950s American Science-Fiction Film
  Hilary Dannenberg
• I Am Better Than You Are—Mad Politics and Hypermasculinity in Cold War Films
  Kathleen Starck

PROPAGANDA

• Loving the Bomb: Cold War Audiovisual Propaganda in the United States
  Giorgio Signori
• Soviet Active Measures against Pius XII
  Gérald Arboit
• The Cold War and Propaganda, Ideology and Conspiracy Theories in the Middle East
  Matthew Gray

POPULAR CULTURE

• Elvis Presley and McCarthyism—Rock’n’Roll and Paranoia
  Uwe Zagratzki
• “Two Tribes”: The Cold War in Music Videos of the Mid-1980s
  Oliver Lindner
• The Building Battle: Architecture in Cold War Berlin
  Marta García Carbonero
• The New Super-Powered Conflict: The Cold War and its Legacy in Contemporary American Comic Books
  Matthew J. Costello

LITERATURE

• Polarising Masculinities in a Cold War Discourse: Violence and the Male Body in Ian Fleming’s James Bond Series
  Jana Nittel
• The Cold Facts? Caryl Churchill’s Mad Forest, Truth and the Demise of the Cold War
  Geoff Willcocks
• Retrospective Anchoring of the Soviet Repressive System: The Autobiographies of the Latvian Intelligentsia
  Martins Kaprans

Notes on Contributors
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