Empire of Pictures : : Global Media and the 1960s Remaking of American Foreign Policy / / 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 c...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Explorations in Culture and International History ;
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Table of Contents:
- 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