Cold war cultures [[electronic resource] ] : perspectives on Eastern and Western European societies / / edited by Annette Vowinckel, Marcus M. Payk, and Thomas Lindenberger

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Berghahn Books, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (395 p.)
• Disciplina: 940.55
• Soggetto topico: Cold War - Social aspects - Europe; Cold War - Social aspects - Europe, Western; Cold War - Social aspects - Europe, Eastern; Cold War in literature; Cold War in motion pictures; Cold War in mass media; Cold War in popular culture; Collective memory - Europe; Collective memory - Europe, Western; Collective memory - Europe, Eastern
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: VowinckelAnnette PaykMarcus M LindenbergerThomas <1955->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: European Cold War culture(s)? : an introduction / Annette Vowinckel, Marcus M. Payk, Thomas Lindenberger -- East European Cold War culture(s)? : alterities, commonalities, and reflections / Marsha Siefert -- "We started the Cold War" : a hidden message behind Stalin's attack on Anna Akhmatova / Olga Yurievna Voronina -- Radio reform in the 1980s : Rias and DT-64 respond to private radio / Edward Larkey -- The enemy within : (de-)dramatizing the Cold War in U.S. and West German spy TV of the 1960s / Marcus M. Payk -- Cold War television : Olga Korbut and the Munich Olympics of 1972 / Annette Vowinckel -- Catholic piety in the early Cold War years, or, how the Virgin Mary protected the West from communism / Monique Scheer -- The road to socialism paved with good intentions : automobile culture in the Soviet Union, the GDR and Romania during detente / Luminita Gatejel -- Advertising, emotions, and "hidden persuaders" : the making of Cold-War consumer culture in Britain from the 1940s to the 1960s / Stefan Schwarzkopf -- Survivalism in the welfare cocoon : the culture of civil defense in Cold War Sweden / Marie Cronqvist. ; The peace and the war camps : the dichotomous Cold War culture in Czechoslovakia, 1948-1960 / Roman Krakovsky -- Artistic style, canonization, and identity politics in Cold War Germany, 1947-1960 / Joes Segal -- 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 / Quinn Slobodian -- Drawing the east-west border : narratives of modernity and identity in the Julian Region, 1947-1954 / Sabina Mihelj -- A fifties revival? : Cold War culture in re-unified Germany / Andrew Beattie -- The Mikson case : war crimes memory, Estonian identity : reconstructions and the transnational politics of justice / Valur Ingimundarson -- The first Cold War memorial in Berlin : a short inquiry into Europe, the Cold War, and memory cultures / Petra Henzler.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Cold war cultures
• ISBN: 1-280-49674-6; 9786613591975; 0-85745-244-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451985503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II