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  • Remapping Cold War Media

    Institutions, Infrastructures, Translations

    by Katie Trumpener, Rosamund Johnston, Anu Koivunen, Masha Salazkina, Sonja Simonyi, Jaroslav Švelch, Marie Cronqvist, Elena Razlogova, Brangwen Stone, Marla Zubel, Laura Saarenmaa, Petr Szczepanik, Stefano Pisu, Christine Evans, Lars Lundgren, Anikó Imre ...
    Why were Hollywood producers eager to film on the other side of the Iron Curtain? How did Western computer games become popular in socialist Czechoslovakia's youth paramilitary clubs? What did Finnish commercial television hope to gain from broadcasting Soviet drama?Cold War media cultures are typically remembered in terms of an East-West binary, emphasizing conflict and propaganda. Remapping Cold ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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    Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? offers a crash course in the history of imperialist propaganda, as well as in the Marxist method for analyzing culture and ideology. Author Gabriel Rockhill demonstrates the explanatory and transformative superiority of a dialectical and historical materialist approach, while elucidating how the world of ideas is a crucial site of class struggle. He then ... Read more

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  • The Democratic Surround

    Multimedia & American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties

    by Fred Turner ...
    A "smart and fascinating" reassessment of postwar American culture and the politics of the 1960s from the author of From Counterculture to Cyberculture ( Reason Magazine).We tend to think of the sixties as an explosion of creative energy and freedom that arose in direct revolt against the social restraint and authoritarian hierarchy of the early Cold War years. Yet, as Fred Turner reveals in The ... Read more

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  • Testimony

    The Legacy of Schindler's List and the USC Shoah Foundation

    by Steven Spielberg ...
    This illustrated, large-format book, Testimony: The Legacy of Schindler's List and the USC Shoah Foundation—A 20th Anniversary Commemoration combines, for the first time, the behind-the-scenes story of the making of Schindler's List with the history of the remarkable organization inspired by that landmark film. Steven Spielberg's encounters with Holocaust survivors who visited the set and ... Read more

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  • Against the Fascist Creep

    by Alexander Reid Ross ...
    US society is notoriously complacent when it comes to the rise of fascist tendencies. When Dylann Roof murdered nine black parishioners in a Charleston church, media emphasis remained superficial. Familiar narratives of insane lone wolves and Confederate flags masked the organizations that inspired Roof's act and their connections to politicians at the local, state, and federal levels throughout ... Read more

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  • Berlin Divided City, 1945-1989

    Edited by Philip Broadbent, Sabine Hake ...
    Series Book 6 - Culture & Society in Germany
    A great deal of attention continues to focus on Berlin’s cultural and political landscape after the fall of the Berlin Wall, but as yet, no single volume looks at the divided city through an interdisciplinary analysis. This volume examines how the city was conceived, perceived, and represented during the four decades preceding reunification and thereby offers a unique perspective on divided Berlin ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Socialist Sixties

    Crossing Borders in the Second World

    Edited by Anne E. Gorsuch, Diane P. Koenker ...
    "A very engaging collection of essays that adds much to an evolving literature on the social history of the Soviet Union and broader socialist societies." — ChoiceThe 1960s have reemerged in scholarly and popular culture as a protean moment of cultural revolution and social transformation. In this volume socialist societies in the Second World (the Soviet Union, East European countries, and Cuba) ... Read more

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  • Visions of Avant-Garde Film

    Polish Cinematic Experiments from Expressionism to Constructivism

    by Kamila Kuc ...
    Warsaw- and London-based filmmakers Franciszka and Stefan Themerson are often recognized internationally as pioneers of the 1930s Polish avant-garde. Yet, from the turn of the century to the end of the 1920s, Poland's literary and art scenes were also producing a rich array of criticism and early experiments with the moving image that set the stage for later developments in the avant-garde. In ... Read more

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  • The Greengrocer and His TV

    The Culture of Communism after the 1968 Prague Spring

    by Paulina Bren ...
    The 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia brought an end to the Prague Spring and its promise of "socialism with a human face." Before the invasion, Czech reformers had made unexpected use of television to advance political and social change. In its aftermath, Communist Party leaders employed the medium to achieve "normalization," pitching television stars against political dissidents in a ... Read more

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  • Drawing the Iron Curtain

    Jews and the Golden Age of Soviet Animation

    by Maya Balakirsky Katz ...
    In the American imagination, the Soviet Union was a drab cultural wasteland, a place where playful creative work and individualism was heavily regulated and censored. Yet despite state control, some cultural industries flourished in the Soviet era, including animation. Drawing the Iron Curtain tells the story of the golden age of Soviet animation and the Jewish artists who enabled it to thrive.Art ... Read more

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  • Museums of Communism

    New Memory Sites in Central and Eastern Europe

    Edited by Stephen M. Norris ...
    How did communities come to terms with the collapse of communism? In order to guide the wider narrative, many former communist countries constructed museums dedicated to chronicling their experiences. Museums of Communism explores the complicated intersection of history, commemoration, and victimization made evident in these museums constructed after 1991. While contributors from a diverse range ... Read more

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  • Revolutionary Acts

    Amateur Theater and the Soviet State, 1917-1938

    by Lynn Mally ...
    During the Russian Revolution and Civil War, amateur theater groups sprang up in cities across the country. Workers, peasants, students, soldiers, and sailors provided entertainment ranging from improvisations to gymnastics and from propaganda sketches to the plays of Chekhov. In Revolutionary Acts, Lynn Mally reconstructs the history of the amateur stage in Soviet Russia from 1917 to the height ... Read more

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