This book demonstrates how the two adversaries of the Cold War, West Germany and East Germany, endeavored to create two distinct and unique German identities. In their endeavor to claim legitimacy, the German cinematic representation of the American West became an important cultural weapon of mass dissemination during the Cold War.
Format: HardbackCONTRIBUTORS: P. GoralEAN: 9781137364296COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 3551 gHEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave MacmillanDATE PUBLISHED: 2014-03-07CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), HISTORY / Social HistoryWIDTH: 140 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
East Germany, DDR, West Germany, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Cold wars and proxy conflicts
Pawel Goral is a lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Arlington, USA.
This book demonstrates how the two adversaries of the Cold War, West Germany and East Germany, endeavored to create two distinct and unique German identities. In their endeavor to claim legitimacy, the German cinematic representation of the American West became an important cultural weapon of mass dissemination during the Cold War.
Format: HardbackCONTRIBUTORS: P. GoralEAN: 9781137364296COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 3551 gHEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave MacmillanDATE PUBLISHED: 2014-03-07CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), HISTORY / Social HistoryWIDTH: 140 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
East Germany, DDR, West Germany, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Cold wars and proxy conflicts
