General Information

Language

English.

Published

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

Physical Description

346 p. ; 22 cm.

Series

Palgrave studies in the history of the media.

Contributors

Contributor

Klimke, Martin, 1977-

Bastiansen, Henrik G.‏, 1964-

Werenskjold, Rolf‏

Contents/Summary

Summary

The Cold War was a media phenomenon. It was a daily cultural political struggle for the hearts and minds of ordinary people--and for government leaders, a struggle to undermine their enemies' ability to control the domestic public sphere. This collection examines how this struggle played out on screen, radio, and in print from the late 1970s through the early 1990s, a time when breaking news stories such as Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" program and Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of glasnost captured the world's attention. Ranging from the United States to the Soviet Union and China, these essays cover photojournalism on both sides of the Iron Curtain, Polish punk, Norwegian film, Soviet magazines, and more, concluding with a contribution from Stuart Franklin, one of the creators of the iconic "Tank Man" image during the Tiananmen Square protests. By investigating an array of media actors and networks, as well as narrative and visual frames on a local and transnational level, this volume lays the groundwork for writing media into the history of the late Cold War.

Subjects

Subject

Cold War (1945-1989) in mass media.

Cold War > Propaganda.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

editors, Henrik G. Bastiansen, Martin Klimke, Rolf Werenskjold.

ISBN

9783319983813

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Reference collection	909.825 BAS		Reference	-

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