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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Douglas Field Klappentext Although it is fifty years since the height of the Cold War many of the characteristics that shaped that era are back. Surveillance, paranoia, and nuclear threats are very much a part of our post-9/11 world, and cultural critics and politicians are drawing parallels between the threat of communism in the 1950s and 1960s and the present-day "axis of evil." The essays in this volume, written by prominent theorists and historians, guide the reader through recent and established theories regarding the Cold War. The contributors also discuss a number of previously neglected themes, films, and texts. Divided into two parts ("Cultural Themes" and "Cultural Forms"), the book features chapters on gender and sexuality; race; politics; the family; and culture. Zusammenfassung This book guides the reader through recent and established theories as well as introducing a number of previously neglected themes! films and texts. Table of Contents; Introduction; Douglas Field; SECTION ONE: CULTURAL THEMES; 1. THE FAMILY: Postwar Family Roles and the Polio Crisis; Jacqueline Foertsch; 2. GENDER AND SEXUALITY: Cold War Homophobia in All About Eve; Robert Corber; 3. POLITICS: Containment and the Cultural Construction of the Cold War; David Ryan; 4. MOBILITY: Trailers in Cold War America; Dina Smith; 5. RACE AND THE COLD WAR: Anxiety and Assimilation; Douglas Field;; SECTION TWO: CULTURAL FORMS; 6. FILM: Disney's Song of the South and the Birth of the White Negro; Catherine Gunther Kodat; 7. LITERATURE: George Orwell and the Cold War; Scott Lucas; 8. TELEVISION: TV, Korea, and Cold War Brainwashing; Alan Nadel; 9. POETRY: American Poetry of the 1950s and 1960s; Hugh Stevens.
