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Cold War II Hollywood's renewed obsession with Russia

Title: Cold War II [electronic resource] : Hollywood's renewed obsession with Russia / edited by Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad.
Publication: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2020]

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Konrad, Tatiana, 1991-

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1 online resource (vi, 257 pages)

Summary

"Contributions by Thomas J. Cobb, Donna A. Gessell, Helena Goscilo, Cyndy Hendershot, Christian Jimenez, David LaRocca, Lori Maguire, Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad, Ian Scott, Vesta Silva, Lucian Tion, Dan Ward, and Jon Wiebel In recent years, Hollywood cinema has forwarded a growing number of images of the Cold War and entertained a return to memories of conflicts between the USSR and the US, Russians and Americans, and communism and capitalism. Cold War II: Hollywood's Renewed Obsession with Russia explores the reasons for this sudden renewed interest in the Cold War. Essayists examine such films as Guy Ritchie's The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen's Hail, Caesar!, David Leitch's Atomic Blonde, Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water, Ryan Coogler's Black Panther, and Francis Lawrence's Red Sparrow, among others, as well as such television shows as Comrade Detective and The Americans. Contributors to this collection interrogate the revival of the Cold War movie genre from multiple angles and examine the issues of patriotism, national identity, otherness, gender, and corruption. They consider cinematic aesthetics and the ethics of these representations. They reveal how Cold War imagery shapes audiences' understanding of the period in general and of the relationship between the US and Russia in particular. The authors complicate traditional definitions of the Cold War film and invite readers to discover a new phase in the Cold War movie genre: Cold War II"--

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Cold War II (Online)

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Contents

Introduction. Cinematic reimagining of the Cold War in the 2010s / Tatiana Prorkova-Konrad -- Part I: Enduring clichés. The warm glow of Cold War nostalgia / Vesta Silva and Jon Wiebel ; Big rewards for the small screen: The Man from U.N.C.L.E. during both Cold Wars / Helena Goscilo ; The westernization of Stalin: late Hollywood readings of real-existing socialism / Lucian Tion -- Part II: New aesthetics of the old past. The coldest city: Berlin and the remapping of Cold War movie aesthetics / Ian Scott ; "Your body belongs to the state": the mobilization of the action heroine in service of the state in Red Sparrow and Atomic Blonde / Dan Ward ; The Shape of Water and the Cold War revisited / Cyndy Hendershot ; Laughing at the early Cold War: communism, the USSR, and the comedy of Hail, Caesar! and The Death of Stalin / Lori Maguire -- Part III: of patriotism, corruption, and otherness. Of mothers and motherlands: figurations of parenting and patriotism in The Americans / David LaRocca ; Conservative understanding and nationalist exclusion: moral equivalency as contested concept in Bridge of Spies and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy / Christian Jimenez ; Unacknowledged realignment: representations of US-Russian relations in recent American cinema / Thomas J. Cobb ; Red Sparrow: Cold War redux and the treatment of corruption / Donna A. Gessell.

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