Empire of Pictures : : Global Media and the 1960s Remaking of American Foreign Policy / / Sönke Kunkel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Kunkel, Sönke,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Explorations in Culture and International History ; 8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (276 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures --; Preface --; List of Abbreviations --; Introduction Why Empires Need Pictures --; Part I. The Rise of the Visual Age --; Chapter 1 The Picture State and Its Innovators --; Chapter 2 Contact Points with Empire and the Globalizing of Media --; Part II. Picturing Empire --; Chapter 3 Prosperity: Official Visits to the United States --; Chapter 4 Progress: Popular Aspirations, the Global South, and the Politics of Imagination --; Chapter 5 Peace: Space Flights as “Pictorial Acts” --; Chapter 6 Power: Global Media and the Other History of the Vietnam War --; Conclusion From Nixon to Obama, or: The Legacy of the 1960s --; Endnotes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781782388432; 9783110998238
• DOI: 10.1515/9781782388432
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Sönke Kunkel.

In Cold War historiography, the 1960s are often described as a decade of mounting diplomatic tensions and international social unrest. At the same time, they were a period of global media revolution: communication satellites compressed time and space, television spread around the world, and images circulated through print media in expanding ways. Examining how U.S. policymakers exploited these changes, this book offers groundbreaking international research into the visual media battles that shaped America's Cold War from West Germany and India to Tanzania and Argentina.