P. Goral

Cold War Rivalry and the Perception of the American West

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-47324-3
• 1st ed. 2014
• Seitenzahl: 185
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 258g
• ISBN-13: 9781349473243
• ISBN-10: 1349473243
• Artikelnr.: 45074189

Autorenporträt

Pawel Goral is a lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Arlington, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

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

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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