Cold War Fantasies: Film, Fiction, and Foreign Policy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780742510524)

As memories of the Cold War recede, it becomes more and more difficult to remember what it was about and why it evoked such feelings of intensity and fatalism. Fortunately, we have a gold mine of movies and novels to help us recall why an entire generation of Americans grew up ducking under school desks in air raid drills and stocking the family bomb shelter. Cold War Fantasies retrieves those times, based on the idea that a nation's history, self-concept, and collective anxiety are reflected in popular culture. In Cold War Fantasies, Ronnie Lipschutz combines an historical account of foreign and domestic politics from 1945 to 1995 with summaries and analyses of 30 novels and films contemporaneously published and produced.

Author: Ronnie D. Lipschutz
ISBN-10: 0742510522
ISBN-13: 9780742510524
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 10/09/2001
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.98h x 5.94w x 0.61d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2002 pg. 1489