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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

  • Rethinking the Cinematic Cold War

    The Struggle for Hearts and Minds Goes Global

    Edited by Francesco Pitassio, Maurizio Zinni, Stefano Pisu ...
    Series Book 3 - Visual and Media Cultures of the Cold War and Beyond
    Historical consensus increasingly views the Cold War period as a multifaceted conflict which extended beyond the borders of the USSR and USA, encompassing both cultural and diplomatic history. Debate remains, however, about how best to balance the Cold War as a cultural event with the existence of Cold War culture. Rethinking the Cinematic Cold War provides a fresh reassessment of this period, ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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    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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  • 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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  • A Companion to Eastern European Cinemas

    Edited by Anikó Imre ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas
    A Companion to Eastern European Cinemas showcases twenty-five essays written by established and emerging film scholars that trace the history of Eastern European cinemas and offer an up-to-date assessment of post-socialist film cultures.Showcases critical historical work and up-to-date assessments of post-socialist film culturesFeatures consideration of lesser known areas of study, such as ... Read more

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  • Rosa Luxemburg 155 Success Facts - Everything you need to know about Rosa Luxemburg

    by Roger Weber ...
    For The Rosa Luxemburg Lover. This book is your ultimate resource for Rosa Luxemburg. Here you will find the most up-to-date 155 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Rosa Luxemburg's Early life, Career and Personal life right away.A quick look inside: Rosa Luxemburg - Rosa Luxemburg ... Read more

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  • Global Perspectives on Amateur Film Histories and Cultures

    Edited by Masha Salazkina, Enrique Fibla-Gutiérrez ...
    For too long, the field of amateur cinema has focused on North America and Europe. In Global Perspectives on Amateur Film Histories and Cultures, however, editors Masha Salazkina and Enrique Fibla-Gutiérrez fill the literature gap by extending that focus and increasing inclusivity.Through carefully curated essays, Salazkina and Fibla-Gutiérrez bring wider meaning and significance to the discipline ... Read more

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  • Hope Is of a Different Color

    From the Global South to the Lodz Film School

    Edited by Magda Lipska, Monika Talarczyk ...
    Series series Museum under Construction
    The history of film students from the Global South who studied in Poland during the Cold War.As Poland’s second-largest city, Łódź was a hub for international students who studied in Poland from the mid-1960s to 1989. The Łódź Film School, a member of CILECT since 1955, was a favored destination, with students from Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East accounting for one-third of its ... Read more

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  • The Nobel Prize and the Formation of Contemporary World Literature

    by Paul Tenngart ...
    An exploration of the history, ambitions, and impact of the Nobel Prize in literature as it gained a central position in 20th-century global literary culture.Few scholars would deny that the Nobel Prize is the most prestigious literary award in the world. But what mechanisms made it possible for 18 Swedish intellectuals to become the world's most influential literary critics? Paul Tenngart argues ... Read more

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  • The Conscience of Cinema

    The works of Joris Ivens 1912-1989

    by Thomas Waugh ...
    Series series Framing Film
    This is the first book to survey the entire career of Joris Ivens, a prolific documentary filmmaker who worked on every continent over the course of seven decades. More than a biography of a leftist committed to changing the world through film, The Conscience of Cinema is also a microcosmic history of the documentary and its form, culture, and place within twentieth-century world cinema. Ivens ... Read more

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  • Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?

    by Gabriel Rockhill ...
    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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  • Strongmen

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    by Ruth Ben-Ghiat ...
    **New York Times BestsellerWhat modern authoritarian leaders have in common (and how they can be stopped).**Ruth Ben-Ghiat is the expert on the "strongman" playbook employed by authoritarian demagogues from Mussolini to Putin—enabling her to predict with uncanny accuracy the recent experience in America and Europe. In Strongmen, she lays bare the blueprint these leaders have followed over the past ... Read more

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