Cold War Rivalry And The Perception Of The American West

Author : P. Goral
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137364300
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cold War Rivalry and the Perception of the American West written by P. Goral and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-03-07 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates how the two adversaries of the Cold War, West Germany and East Germany, endeavored to create two distinct and unique German identities. In their endeavor to claim legitimacy, the German cinematic representation of the American West became an important cultural weapon of mass dissemination during the Cold War.

Author : Sanja Runtić
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9819974216
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book (Un)Following in Winnetou’s Footsteps written by Sanja Runtić and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-01-03 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the ways in which North American Indigenous identity has been (re)imagined, represented, and negotiated in German, Croatian, Italian, Polish, and Czech culture. Employing a cross-disciplinary and comparative approach and drawing on a range of media—from literature, comics, and film to photography, painting, and the performative arts—across different historical and cultural backgrounds, it aims to both contribute innovative scholarship on Indigenous studies in Europe and open a new avenue in the field by focusing on Central European settings that have received little or no critical attention to date. The book’s novelty also comes from its focus on the latest developments in the field, including the “Ravensburger/Winnetou controversy,” which swept across Europe in 2022, echoing the 2017 Canadian debate over Indigenous appropriation and free speech. It seeks to provide a sound reference and lay the groundwork for future scholarship by opening up a conversation on how Indigenous identities have been portrayed in Central European literature and media texts. To this end, it not only addresses generalized expectations about North American Indigenous people underlying (Central) European public discourse and imagination but also questions whether and to what extent some of the ingrained stereotypical views and practices, such as hobbyism, have been challenged in the face of Indigenous resurgence, rapidly changing media and information-sharing realities, and global cultural shifts. The closing interview with Métis playwright, actor, and director Bruce Sinclair underscores one of the book’s key goals—to spark an informed cross-cultural dialogue that will reveal the mechanisms of, as well as the contradictions and tensions inherent in, the politics of Indigenous representation in (Central) European cultural industries and encourage (Central) Europeans to confront their own cultural assumptions and attitudes.

Author : Steven G. Reinhardt
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623495423
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Currents in Transatlantic History written by Steven G. Reinhardt and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-07 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transatlantic historians are dedicated to analyzing the dynamic process of encounter, interchange, and creolization that was initiated when peoples on different sides of the Atlantic Basin first made contact and continues until the twenty-first century. The forty-ninth annual Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lecture Series —“Currents in Transatlantic Thought”—was organized to commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of the University of Texas at Arlington’s doctoral program in transatlantic history. Six alumni of the program were invited to return and present their ongoing research in this new approach to history that focuses on the complex process of interchange and adaptation that began when Africans, Amerindians, and Europeans first came into contact. The essays stemming from those lectures cover a variety of topics grouped around three unifying themes—encounters, commodities, and identities—that illustrate the potentiality of transatlantic history.

Author : Kevin J. Fernlund
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cold War American West, 1945-1989 written by Kevin J. Fernlund and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive survey of the Cold War's enormous impact on the environment, society, politics, culture, and economy of the American West.

Author : Lawrence P. Jackson
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421444127
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hold It Real Still written by Lawrence P. Jackson and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the American western feature film genre rebrand itself in the late seventies and respond to the fury of global and domestic political affairs? In Hold It Real Still, Lawrence Jackson examines Clint Eastwood's influence on the western film while also exploring how that genre continues to operate into the twenty-first century as an ideological channel for ideas about race and imperialism. Jackson argues that the western genre pivoted from an initial doctrine of racial liberalism, albeit a clumsy one, during the John Wayne years to a motile agenda of substitution, exclusion, and false equivalency during the Clint Eastwood period. The book traces how Eastwood, an actor first associated with the avant-garde, anti-colonialist discourse of "spaghetti" western cinema, reversed himself in the second half of the 1970s with The Outlaw Josey Wales—a film that had at its heart the fantasy of Black erasure from American life. Jackson situates Eastwood's work as a response to massive social and political upheavals in America: defeat in Vietnam, riots in northern cities, the civil rights movement and associated legislation, and the Great Migration, which made possible a degree of mixed-race public interaction that was impossible even as late as the 1960s. Hinged by a close reading of four blockbuster films which continue to shape discourses in cinematic arts, American liberalism, the westerns, and race relations today—The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Josey Wales, Ride with the Devil, and Django Unchained—Jackson's unique critique flashes on the contradictory symbolic structures at work in these masterpieces. Juxtaposing the films' motifs, tropes, and hidden Black figures with historicist readings lays bare the containment strategies of the 1970s and beyond used to stymie civil rights progress and racial equity in the United States. Tackling the rise of neoracism and the domestic apparatus of surveillance, control, and erasure, Hold It Real Still offers an astonishing revision of what audiences and critics thought they understood about a uniquely American genre of film.

Author : Miroslav Nincic
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anatomy of Hostility written by Miroslav Nincic and published by Wadsworth Publishing Company. This book was released on 1989 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This examination of relations between the United States and the Soviet Union for International Relations, U.S. - Soviet relations, and U.S. Foreign Policy courses is a work of synthesis and explanation written expressly for a student audience. Throughout, the book provides an overall framework for understanding the state of relations between the United States and the Soviet Union. It is organized according to 1) the conflicts of interest (real or imagine) between the two regimes: 2) the psychological perceptions, conceptions, and misconceptions each has of the other: and 3) the domestic political considerations that fuel the rivalry in each country.

Author : Stéphanie Roulin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137388803
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transnational Anti-Communism and the Cold War written by Stéphanie Roulin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How was anti-communism organised in the West? This book covers the agents, aims, and arguments of various transnational anti-communist activists during the Cold War. Existing narratives often place the United States – and especially the CIA – at the centre of anti-communist activity. The book instead opens up new fields of research transnationally.

Author : Michael D. Intriligator
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429713169
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book East-west Conflict written by Michael D. Intriligator and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to bring together American and West German scholars in order to analyze U.S., German, and Soviet elite perceptions of East-West conflict. It attempts to assess the policy implications and political options for the West.

Author : Gregg Brazinsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Winning the Third World written by Gregg Brazinsky and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Flavia Brizio-Skov
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476683069
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ride the Frontier written by Flavia Brizio-Skov and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-02-03 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With fresh appraisals of popular Westerns, this book examines the history of the genre with a focus on definitional aspects of canon, adaptation and hybridity. The author covers a range of largely unexplored topics, including the role of "heroines" in a (supposedly) male-oriented system of film production, the function of the celluloid Indians, the transcultural and transnational history of the first spaghetti Western, the construction of femininity and masculinity in the hybrid Westerns of the 1950s, and the new paths of the Western in the 21st century.