Monday 21 March 2016
After the Cold War: Continuing Cultural Imperialism and Cold War Nostalgia
In the past few years we have witnessed an intriguing rise in
explorations of the Cold War in American popular culture. One recent
example is the TV series Pan Am (trailer below), a show about the
famous airline set in the 1960s in which one of the flight attendants
is a CIA spy. Another is the 2005 movie Good Night, and Good Luck (also below). What might these cultural products and their popularity tell us about North American attitudes to the Cold War today?
Sunday 13 March 2016
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