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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (2): 289–310.
Published: 01 July 2011
...Leong Yew Little has been written about Asian spy films and their relationship with Cold War cultural studies. While their Anglo-American counterparts could be discursively analyzed for the way they portrayed Western anxieties about communism, constructed own identities as opposed to the alterity...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (3): 261–268.
Published: 01 November 2008
... be found. In a study of recent American fiction, Patrick O’Donnell sees Cold War paranoia as “internalized, scattered, localized and reiterated at a multitude of sites” (2000: 12). His point is about the lack of an organizing figure (a singular “Them”) in post-1989 culture, but in addition one has to see...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 70–91.
Published: 01 March 2020
...-study/ . Cronqvist Marie . 2012 . “ Survival in the Welfare Cocoon: The Culture of Civil Defence in Cold War Sweden.” ” In Cold War Cultures: Perspectives on Eastern and Western European Societies , edited by Vowinckel Annette Payk Marcus Lindenberger Thomas , 191 – 212 . New...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (2): 225–244.
Published: 01 July 2006
..., it can be strategic as well; witness the Blitzkrieg and strategic bombing from the Second World War. It can even become the organizing rationale for whole types of war, such as the Cold War Balance of Terror involving Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). The attempt to differentiate between war...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (1): 79–102.
Published: 01 March 2011
... culture of the Cold War permeated postwar domestic architecture and design. 3. For a discussion of the importance of the brutalist building as “image,” see Banham (1996) and Stalder (2008) . 4. See, for example, Lowry (1998) ; Foot ( 2006a , 2006b ); and Osborne ( 2004 , 2008...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (3): 337–350.
Published: 01 November 2008
...Daniel Cordle Taking its critical cue from notions of a United States “containment culture,” developed by Alan Nadel and Elaine Tyler May, this article locates Judith Merril’s atomic war novel, Shadow on the Hearth (1950) , in early Cold War political contexts. Contrary to readings that see Gladys...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (2): 225–243.
Published: 01 July 2018
... and the subordination of the individual to the demands of an often-reductive utilitarianism. But this assessment is too narrow and too beholden to the critique of the “man in the gray flannel suit” that grew out of the pinched instrumentalism of Cold War – era managerial culture, as if the answer to an overly regulated...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (3): 289–308.
Published: 01 November 2008
... Le Carré’s masterful analyses of its persistence in post-1997 British culture. © BERG 2008 PRINTED IN THE UK 2008 Cold War 1950s Greene Indochina doublethink epochal novel Le Carré Graham Greene’s novel The Quiet American (1955) was written between 1952 and 1955. He tells us...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (3): 375–390.
Published: 01 November 2008
... film was informed throughout the period of its creation by the differences in political and cultural attitudes toward the nuclear threat that existed between the US and the UK during the Cold War. This allowed the film to act as a reflection of the shift in the general understanding of the nuclear...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (2): 139–152.
Published: 01 July 2018
... and presidency, going against Republican Party Cold War orthodoxy that villainized the former Soviet Union, now Russia, as the Evil Empire and the Red Menace. Many of us grew up in a Cold War culture that included copious films and TV shows with evil Russians, and experienced broadcast and print media, schooling...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 132–150.
Published: 01 July 2014
...John Beck; Mark Dorrian Space colonization and subterranean dwelling have been staples of speculative fiction since at least the nineteenth century, but the invention of nuclear weapons and the prospect of global environmental collapse have, certainly since the Cold War, made proposals offering...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (2): 193–206.
Published: 01 July 2012
... poetics and politics of converting the writing subject into a medium of worlded multicultural otherness and/or the consolidation of selfhood and cultural-political belief in such settings. In Cold War contexts threatened with the allure and bad faith of orientalism and the romantic sublime, the stylistic...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (1): 31–50.
Published: 01 March 2005
... even made anthropology possible in the areas where it has thrived. This evokes the well-rehearsed critique of anthropology in relation to the conditions of European colonialism, also extended into the era of the Cold War (for example a Pax Britannica or a Pax Americana over a variety of lands...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 March 2005
... abuse imagery. Indeed, for him, the latter is an even worse symbolic dishonor than 9/11 since the US wreaked this ignominy on itself in the form of “shame and bad conscience.” Alternatively, in “Cold Panic,” Paul Virilio contends that the Cold War threat to obliterate the modern metropolis has been...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (1): 127–132.
Published: 01 March 2006
... of a number of essays that, importantly, focus less on the spectacular “killing” of cities than on the incorporation of military technologies into “everyday” urban practices. Simon Guy's contribution on Berlin is the first of two chapters considering the shadows cast over contemporary urbanism by Cold War...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (1): 23–34.
Published: 01 March 2007
..., of their consciousness” [ Virilio and Lotringer 1997 : 26]). Thus, for all its embeddedness in the culture of the Cold War, Virilio's text speaks powerfully to our contemporary moment, when – in the all-embracing rhetoric of the “War on Terror” – submission to the imperatives of total mobilization is once more revealed...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 50–69.
Published: 01 March 2020
... : Harper Collins . Bycroft Michael . 2012 . “ Psychology, Psychologists, and the Creativity Movement: The Lives of Method inside and outside the Cold War.” ” In Cold War Social Science: Knowledge Production, Liberal Democracy, and Human Nature , edited by Solovey Mark Cravens Hamilton...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (2): 202–216.
Published: 01 July 2016
.... This intersectional emphasis on queerness and heteronationalism marks the contribution to be made by historicizing the FBI’s surveillance of Duke Ellington and Irving Mills. In contrast to recent research on black cultural producers and leftist civil rights activists during the Cold War, 6 this article...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (3): 309–329.
Published: 01 November 2008
... into the very Arctic zone which fostered Humbert’s incorporation of Cold War intelligence techniques. The DEW Line hoped to master the forces unleashed by the history connecting Manhattan Project uranium mining in the Northwest Territories to the traumatized culture generated by Hiroshima, including the uranium...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (1): 139–156.
Published: 01 March 2012
... and discusses the ambiguity of their desire for speedy driving. Considering the significance of mobility within the cultural context of Cold War America, I investigate the influence of speed on identity formation in the novel. I subsequently look at the impact of both accelerated and decelerated movement...
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