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Media and the Cold War in the 1980s

Part of the Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media Book Series

Editors: Bastiansen, Henrik G.; Klimke, Martin; Werenskjold, Rolf

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-98382-0

ISBN: 978-3-319-98381-3

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Nov 9, 2018

1 - 10 of 14 Chapters

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Introduction: Mapping the Role of the Media in the Late Cold War

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

Pages: 1 –17

[Surveying existing literature, this chapter argues for a dialogue between the field of media and communication studies and Cold War historiography. Framing the trajectory of the volume both thematically and methodologically, the chapter highlights the benefits of such a synergetic approach for...
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Selling “Star Wars” in American Mass Media

Knoblauch, William M.

Pages: 19 –42

[In March of 1983, Ronald Reagan introduced his Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), a program to intercept incoming ballistic missiles in space. Dubbed “Star Wars” by skeptics, SDI prompted a media battle—in print, television commercials, documentaries, and even a mail-in sweepstakes—between two...
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Interviewing the Enemy and Other Cold War Players: US Foreign Policy as Seen Through Playboy During the Reagan Years

Saarenmaa, Laura

Pages: 43 –61

[It is a common joke that Playboy magazine has been “read for the articles.” However, there has been relatively little academic interest in what the articles in Playboy have actually been about. As this essay shows, the volumes of Playboy magazine offer a remarkable archive of critical reviews of...
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Going Atmospheric and Elemental: Roger Moore’s and Timothy Dalton’s James Bond and Cold War Geo-Politics

Dodds, Klaus; Funnell, Lisa

Pages: 63 –85

[Using the Second Cold War (ca. 1974–1987) as a primary focus, this chapter contends that the “Bond formula” is neither formulaic nor institutionally ritualized as the term implies. It becomes more atmospheric, elemental, and resourceful. Three factors enable this shift. First, the emergence of...
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Civil Cold War Aviation as Television Drama: The Popular Miniseries Treffpunkt Flughafen (GDR 1986)

Hochscherf, Tobias

Pages: 87 –113

[Television played an important part in representing life and culture on both sides of the Iron Curtain. GDR television, particularly, was under significant pressure. As a medium under tight supervision, it was expected to be popular and to conform along party lines. GDR television, thereby, had...
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Photojournalism East/West: The Cold War, the Iron Curtain, and the Trade of Photographs

Vowinckel, Annette

Pages: 115 –135

[During the Cold War, Eastern and Western Europe saw a vivid exchange of photographs. News agencies like the Associated Press and the East German Zentralbild signed contracts that regulated the trade of news photos; various exhibitions (like the famous “Family of Man”) traveled to both the East...
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Irony in Polish Punk of the 1980s as a Form of Contestation

Piotrowska, Anna G.

Pages: 137 –159

[The chapter argues that the songs, and especially performances, of the Polish punk bands of the 1980s can be read as reactions targeted against the restrictions imposed by communist authorities. But while the disseminators of official Polish propaganda clearly denounced the punk movement by...
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Mediating Alternative Culture: Two Controversial Exhibitions in Hungary During the 1980s

Debeusscher, Juliane

Pages: 161 –188

[This essay addresses the role that information and transnational solidarity played in the visibility and public acknowledgment of Hungarian alternative culture. It examines the censored exhibitions Hungary Can Be Yours (1984) and The Fighting City (1987) through the lens of their media coverage....
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The Cold War Reporters: The Norwegian Foreign-News Journalists and Foreign-News Correspondents, 1945–1995

Hovden, Jan Fredrik; Werenskjold, Rolf

Pages: 189 –221

[Substantial evidence shows that the Cold War deeply affected the journalistic reporting and framing of both domestic and foreign events and was integral to the formation of Cold War culture. But its effect also extended to the way in which foreign news was produced and who produced it. This...
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Orions Belte: The Birth of the Norwegian “High-Concept” Movie in the Shadow of the Second Cold War

Sørenssen, Bjørn

Pages: 223 –234

[Orions belte (Orion’s Belt), directed by Ola Solum in 1985 and based on Jon Michelet’s novel of the same name from 1977, is a film that is generally regarded as marking a watershed in Norwegian film history. However, some contemporary critics worried about its remarkably explicit description of...

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