Rethinking the Cinematic Cold War: The Struggle for Hearts and Minds Goes Global

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Historical consensus increasingly views the Cold War period as a multifaceted conflict which extended beyond the borders of the USSR and USA, encompassing both cultural and diplomatic history. Debate remains, however, about how best to balance the Cold War as a cultural event with the existence of Cold War culture. Rethinking the Cinematic Cold War provides a fresh reassessment of this period, highlighting how the convergence of geopolitical interests, cultural production and exchange, and technological and media history shaped a unique epoch. Consequently, this volume seeks to diagnose the role cinema played in expanding the ideological outlook of artists, audiences, and policymakers. Frontmatter Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Expanding the Cinematic Cold War or: How We Learned to Cross Boundaries and Look at Bigger Pictures PART I - At the Onset: Super-Powers, the Struggle for Europe, the Extension of the Conflict Chapter 1. The Burden of Winning: American Cinematographic Policy in Italy in the Years of the Allied Military Administration (1943–1945) Chapter 2. The Struggle to Save Progressive Unions: Carl Marzani and Union Films Chapter 3. A ‘Trojan Horse in the Enemy Camp’: Vatican Plans for a Catholic Third Way on the Chessboard of Cold War-Era Cinema (1939-1958) Chapter 4. An Impossible Cinematic Hegemony: Soviet Films in Italy between Postwar and the Cold War (1944–1953) Chapter 5. Soviet Cinematic Diplomacy from New York to Beijing, 1949: Sergei Gerasimov and his Documentary Films PART II - Film Diplomacy: Non-Aligned Countries, Decolonisation and New Opportunities Chapter 6. The Rise and Fall of Sino-Soviet Film Festival Diplomacy (1957-1966) Chapter 7. Making Ground for Film Export: Soviet Films’Competition with Hollywood in India in the 1950-1960s Chapter 8. The Film Market at the Time of Independence: France’s Former African Colonies and the Cinematic Cold War in the 1960s Chapter 9. The Troubles of Non-Alignment: International Pacifism, Transnational Style and Production Strategies in the Case of Rat (Atomic War Bride, Veliko Bulajić, 1960) Chapter 10. From Anticommunism to Third-Worldism: The Transformation of Mexican Cinema in the Cold War of the 1970s PART III - From Rising Suns to a Slow Sunset: Cooperation, Disillusionment and Transfers Chapter 11. Cold War and Film Festivals in the Aftermath of 1968 Chapter 12. To Catch Up and Overtake… Europe: Technology Transfer and Its Limits in the Soviet Cinema under Brezhnev Chapter 13. Missed Opportunities and Unexpected Success: Film Relationships between France and the GDR in the 1970s Chapter 14. The Chilean Cultural Project during Unidad Popular (1970–1973): The Interview between Roberto Rossellini and Salvador Allende Chapter 15. ‘Ideological Threat of Italian Movies’: The KGB, Mafia, Punk-Rock, and Rise of Neo-Fascism among Soviet Youth (1982-1985) Conclusion: Close Encounters around the World Filmography Index