Pressing the fight : print, propaganda, and the Cold War

Pressing the fight : print, propaganda, and the Cold War /

"In this volume, scholars from a variety of disciplines explore the myriad ways print was used in the Cold War. Looking at materials ranging from textbooks and cookbooks to art catalogs, newspaper comics, and travel guides, they analyze not only the content of printed matter but also the materi...

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Other Authors: Turner, Catherine, 1968- (Editor), Barnhisel, Greg, 1969- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2010
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies.
Subjects:
Propaganda, Anti-communist.
Propaganda, International.
Politics and literature.
Popular culture and literature > History > 20th century.
Book industries and trade > History > 20th century.
Publishers and publishing > Political aspects.
Cold War > Social aspects.
Cold War > Political aspects.
Press and propaganda > History > 20th century.
Book industries and trade > Political aspects.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Greg Barnhisel and Catherine Turner
  • Printing from left to right. The medium, the message, the movement : print culture and new left politics / Kristin Mathews
  • The education of a Cold War conservative : anti-communist literature of the 1950s and 1960s / Laura Jane Gifford
  • Establishing a beachhead. Literature and reeducation in occupied Germany, 1945-1949 / Christian Kanig
  • Democratic bookshelf : American libraries in occupied Japan / Hiromi Ochi
  • The British Information Research Department and Cold War propaganda publishing / James B. Smith
  • Books for the world : American book programs in the developing world, 1948-1968 / Amanda Laugesen
  • Impact of propaganda materials in free world countries / Martin Manning
  • Print as a tool to shape domestic attitudes. "How can I tell my grandchildren what I did in the Cold War?" : militarizing the funny pages and Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon / Edward Brunner
  • Pineapple glaze and backyard luaus : Cold War cookbooks and the fiftieth state / Amy Reddinger
  • Mediating revolution : travel literature and the Vietnam War / Scott Laderman
  • The cultural Cold War in the United States and abroad. Promoting literature in the most dangerous area in the world : the Cold War, the boom, and mundo nuevo / Russell Cobb
  • "Truth, freedom, perfection" : Alfred Barr's What is modern painting? as Cold War rhetoric / Patricia Hills.

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