Pressing the fight : print, propaganda, and the Cold War

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Information & Library Science Library

Call Number
Z278 .P68 2010
Status
Available

Summary

Original essays on the role of the printed world in the ideological struggle between East and West

Contents

  • Introduction p. 1 Greg Barnhisel and Catherine Turner
  • Part I Printing from Left to Right
  • 1 The Medium, the Message, the Movement: Print Culture and New Left Politics p. 31 Kristin Mathews
  • 2 The Education of a Cold War Conservative: Anti-Communist Literature of the 1950s and 1960s p. 50 Laura Jane Gifford
  • Part II Establishing a Beachhead
  • 3 Literature and Reeducation in Occupied Germany, 1945-1949 p. 71 Christian Kanig
  • 4 Democratic Bookshelf: American Libraries in Occupied Japan p. 89 Hiromi Ochi
  • 5 The British Information Research Department and Cold War Propaganda Publishing p. 112 James B. Smith
  • 6 Books for the World: American Book Programs in the Developing World, 1948-1968 p. 126 Amanda Laugesen
  • 7 Impact of Propaganda Materials in Free World Countries p. 145 Martin Manning
  • Part III Print as a Tool to Shape Domestic Attitudes
  • 8 "How Can I Tell My Grandchildren What I Did in the Cold War? ": Militarizing the Funny Pages and Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon p. 169 Edward Brunner
  • 9 Pineapple Glaze and Backyard Luaus: Cold War Cookbooks and the Fiftieth State p. 193 Amy Redoinger
  • 10 Mediating Revolution: Travel Literature and the Vietnam War p. 209 Scott Laderman
  • Part IV The Cultural Cold War in the United States and Abroad
  • 11 Promoting Literature in the Most Dangerous Area in the World: The Cold War, the Boom, and Mundo Nuevo p. 231 Russell Cobb
  • 12 "Truth, Freedom, Perfection": Alfred Barr's What Is Modern Painting? as Cold War Rhetoric p. 251 Patricia Hills
  • About the Contributors p. 277
  • Index p. 281

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