Upstaging the Cold War
Subtitle: American dissent and cultural diplomacy, 1940-1960
By: Andrew J. Falk.
Series: Culture, politics, and the Cold War
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Amherst
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781558497283
Subjects: Motion picture industry -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Screenwriters -- Political activity -- United States; Blacklisting of authors -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Television and politics -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Communism and motion pictures -- United States; Cold War -- Influence
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the new negotiators. Hollywood in the crucible of war; title: One world or two? : the American postwar mission; title: Casting the Iron Curtain; title: Projectors of power : containment policy in Hollywood; title: Test patterns : making room for dissent in television; title: Guardians of the golden age : Cold War television and the imagined audience; title: The cultural battlefield in Europe; title: Afterword : the Cold War epic.