Cold War Fantasies: Film, Fiction, and Foreign Policy

by Ronnie D. Lipschutz

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742510522
• ISBN13: 9780742510524
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"