Overview
- Explores how various forms of media engaged with the Cold War within Europe and beyond, including popular culture, audiovisual representations, photography, as well as artistic performances
- Investigates the complex interrelations between the media and competing political, economic, and cultural elites
- Provides insight into the use of media and communication systems and products as a political tool on a domestic and international level
- Seeks to explain the role of grassroots politics in the formation of public opinion
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media (PSHM)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
Keywords
- Cold War history
- Media in the Cold War
- collapse of the Soviet Union
- Media and Politics
- Reagan's Star Wars
- Strategic Defense Initiative
- Ronald Reagan
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Mass media
- Cold War geo-politics
- James Bond
- GDR television
- East Germany
- photojournalism
- counterculture art
- Cold War journalism
- socialist television
- Tank Man
- Tiananmen Square
- Cold War discourse
About this book
Reviews
“Eclectic, revealing and exhilarating, this unique collection of essays brings a fresh perspective on the Cold War's crucial final phase. Eastern and Western experiences sit side by side as the authors weave their way through a dizzying range of cultural forms ranging from East bloc TV miniseries and Anglo-American spy films to Scandinavian journalism, Polish punk rock and Hungarian underground exhibitions. The final impression is of the irrepressibility of the human spirit even under the shadow of nuclear winter.” (Nicholas J. Cull, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California)
“This book represents a wonderful contribution to media history and the cultural history of the Cold War. The contributions are wonderfully diverse. They avoid the usual narrow focus on the superpowers, showing how the Cold War was experienced in a wide range of smaller, less dominant countries. And they bring in a wide range of little-studied media and media actors, from Soviet photojournalists, American men’s magazines and Hungarian artists to Yugoslav historical drama and Polish punk rock. The contributions are deeply researched, and taken together they add enormous new depth to our understanding of Cold War media.” (Daniel Hallin, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego, USA, and co-author of Comparing Media Systems: Three Models of Media and Politics and Comparing Media Systems Beyond the Western World)
“Readers will discover that Media and the Cold War in the 1980s presents a broad picture of the ways the various forms of media were engaged with the propaganda battles of the Cold War from the late 1970s to the end of 1980s. By including the analysis of media actors and networks, the contributions present the Cold War as a media phenomenon. Rich in facts and new details the book should find its way onto the desk of anybody interested in Cold War history.”(Epp Lauk, Department of Language and Communication Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and author of Towards a Civic Society: The Baltic Media's Long Road to Freedom)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Martin Klimke is Vice Provost for Academic Policies and Governance and Associate Professor of History at New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Rolf Werenskjold is Professor of Media Studies on the Faculty of Media and Journalism, Volda University College, Norway.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Media and the Cold War in the 1980s
Book Subtitle: Between Star Wars and Glasnost
Editors: Henrik G. Bastiansen, Martin Klimke, Rolf Werenskjold
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98382-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-98381-3Published: 16 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-98382-0Published: 08 November 2018
Series ISSN: 2634-6575
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6583
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 346
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: World History, Global and Transnational History, Media Studies, Russian, Soviet, and East European History, US History, History of Germany and Central Europe