
Cold War Rivalry and the Perception of the American West
P. Goral(Author)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 7. March 2014
Book
Hardback
XI, 185 pages
978-1-137-36429-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Edition
2014 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
XI, 185 p.
Dimensions
Height: 218 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-137-36429-6 (9781137364296)
DOI
10.1057/9781137364302
Schweitzer Classification
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Person
Pawel Goral is a lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Arlington, USA.
Content
Introduction 1. Karl May Westerns and the Conquest of the American West 2. Indianerfilme and the Conquest of the American West 3. German Westerns: Popularity, Reception, Heroines, Miscegenation, Race, and Landscape 4. German Indian Heroes and Intercultural Transfer 5. The Quest for National Identity Conclusion