Cold War Fantasies: Film, Fiction, and Foreign Policy

277 Pages·2001·15.698 MB·English

by  Ronnie D. Lipschutz

Cold War Fantasies

Cold War Fantasies
Film, Fiction, and Foreign Policy
RONNIE D. LIpSCHUTZ
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Cold War fantasies: film, fiction, and foreign policy I Ronnie D. Lipschutz.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7425-1051-4 (cloth: alk. paper) - ISBN 0-7425-1052-2 (paper: alk.
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1. War films-History and criticism. 2. War in literature. 3. Cold War in motion
pictures. 4. Cold War in literature. 5. Motion pictures-Political aspects-United
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For those who survived the Cold War,
and those who did not,
and the children of both

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Films and Novels Discussed
in This Book
Chapter 1: Fihn, Fiction, American Politics
Crimson Tide (1995) 1
Chapter 2: From Hot War to Cold War
The Big Lift (1950) 17
The Third Man (1949) 23
1984: A Navel, by George Orwell (1949) 30
Chapter 3: Reds among Us?
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) 38
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) 47
My Son John (1952) 47
Pickup on South Street (1953) 47
Red Nightmare (1953) 48
The Manchurian Candidate, by Richard Condon (1959) 50
Chapter 4: Spies!
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, by John Ie Carre (1963) 61
Kiss Me Deadly (1955) 75
Chapter 5: Nukes!
Red Alert, by Peter Bryant (1958) 86
Fail-Safe, by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler (1962) 86
Dr. Strangelave (1963) 86
The Day After (1983) 95
Testament (1983) 95
Red Planet Mars (1952) 97
Chapter 6: The Final Frontier
The Ugly American, by William Lederer and Eugene
Burdick (1959) 108
State of Siege (1972) 115
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