Cold War Fantasies Film, Fiction, and Foreign

As memories of the Cold War recede, it becomes more and more difficult to remember what it was about and why it evoked such feelings of intensity and fatalism. Fortunately, we have a gold mine of movies and novels to help us recall why an entire generatio

Ronnie D. Lipschutz is associate professor of politics at the University of California at Santa Cruz

Films and Novels Discussed in This Book

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Preface: What Did You Do in the Cold War, Daddy?

xi

A Note to the Reader

xiii

Film, Fiction, American Politics

1

(14)

From Hot War to Cold War

15

(20)

Reds among Us?

35

(20)

Spies!

55

(24)

Nukes!

79

(24)

The Final Frontier

103

(16)

Vietnam, Over and Over

119

(26)

Renewing the Cold War

145

(26)

New Competitors, Old Enemies

171

(16)

Now What?

187

(14)

Notes

201

(6)

Resources

207

(28)

Bibliography

235

(10)

Index

245

(16)

About the Author

261

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Cold War Fantasies Film, Fiction, and Foreign Policy

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