Cold War Rivalry and the Perception of the American West
1st Edition
Published on 7. March 2014
XI, 185 pages
978-1-137-36430-2 (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
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
XI, 185 p.
File size
1,35 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-137-36430-2 (9781137364302)
DOI
10.1057/9781137364302
Schweitzer Classification
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Book
03/2014
Palgrave Macmillan
€53.49
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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
