Divided Dreamworlds? : : The Cultural Cold War in East and West / / ed. by Giles Scott-Smith, Joes Segal, Peter Romijn.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package Backfile 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Abrams, Nathan,; Bugajski, Jill,; DeJong-Lambert, William,; Jampol, Justinian,; Langenkamp, Harm,; Mihelj, Sabina,; Romijn, Peter,; Scholz, Natalie,; Scott-Smith, Giles,; Segal, Joes,; Siefert, Marsha,; Varga-Harris, Christine,; Veenis, Milena,; Vowinckel, Annette,; Vuletic, Dean,
• HerausgeberIn: Romijn, Peter,; Scott-Smith, Giles,; Segal, Joes,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Studies of the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (238 p.)

While the divide between capitalism and communism, embodied in the image of the Iron Curtain, seemed to be as wide and definitive as any cultural rift, Giles Scott-Smith, Joes Segal, and Peter Romijn have compiled a selection of essays on how culture contributed to the blurring of ideological boundaries between the East and the West. This important and diverse volume presents fascinating insights into the tensions, rivalries, and occasional cooperation between the two blocs, with essays that represent the cutting edge of Cold War Studies and analyze aesthetic preferences and cultural phenomena as various as interior design in East and West Germany; the Soviet stance on genetics; US cultural diplomacy during and after the Cold War; and the role of popular music as the universal cultural ambassador. An illuminating and wide-ranging survey of interrelated collective dreams from both sides of the Iron Curtain, Divided Dreamworlds? has a place on the bookshelf of any modern historian.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I. Arts and Sciences Between the Blocs -- Chapter 1. An Unofficial Cultural Ambassador -- Chapter 2. Biological Utopias East and West -- Chapter 3. Tadeusz Kantor's Publics -- Chapter 4. Co-Producing Cold War Culture -- PART II. Modernity East and West -- Chapter 5. The Dreamworld of New Yugoslav Culture and the Logic of Cold War Binaries -- Chapter 6. Sounds like America -- Chapter 7. Moving Toward Utopia -- Chapter 8. Cold War Modernism and Post-War German Homes -- Chapter 9. Flying Away -- PART III. Post-1989 Perspectives on the Cultural Cold War -- Chapter 10. Problematic Things -- Chapter 11. (Dis)Connecting Cultures, Creating Dreamworlds -- About the Authors -- Index