Research Catalog

Title

Cultural politics, transfer, and propaganda : mediated narratives and images in Austrian-American relations / Waldemar Zacharasiewicz & Siegfried Beer (eds.).

Publication

• Vienna : Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, [2021]
• ©2021

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Additional Authors

• Zacharasiewicz, Waldemar
• Beer, Siegfried

Description

440 pages : illustrations (some color); 23 cm.

Summary

"The interdisciplinary collection contains 16 essays by scholars from literary and cultural studies, by sociologists, historians, musicologists, art historians and media experts. Following the introduction to the key issues in cultural politics and propaganda and a synopsis of the essays, an article surveys the reciprocal perception of Austria and the USA from the 18th century onwards. The following essays analyze various historical phases in the complex relationship beween Austria (and Central Europe) and the USA. Several essays survey the strategies used to promote Austrian tourism and contrast them with advertisements for American sights, and document the implementation of aid programs for the impoverished societies in Austria in the aftermath of World War One. There follow articles that discuss the role of exiled Austrians in the dissemination of a positive image of Austria and favorable view of the USA, while two contributions are devoted to the misrepresentation of significant individuals active in Austria in the interwar years. Special attention is then paid to the role of the Marshall Plan in economic reconstruction in Austria and Western Europe, and to the promotion of liberal democracy in the media during the Cold War. The impact of transatlantic exchange programs for scholars and scientists in the countries of Europe under Soviet influence is also considered. The wide range of essays concludes with critical perspectives on political phenomena, such as the apparently exaggerated role of Austrian resistance fighters in the liberation of the country from the Nazi tyranny in 1945, and on the controversy over Dr. Kurt Waldheim as reflected in popular music in the 1980s. The transfer of new concepts of contemporary art in museums and of contrasted cinematic genres resulting in a merger is illustrated in the final two essays"--Back cover.

Series Statement

Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse. Sitzungsberichte, 0029-8832 ; 916. Band

Uniform Title

Sitzungsberichte (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse) ; 916. Bd.

Alternative Title

Cultural politics, transfer & propaganda

Subject

• Political culture > Austria
• Political culture > United States
• International relations
• Political culture
• Public opinion, American
• Public opinion, Austrian
• Relations
• Austria > Relations > United States
• United States > Relations > Austria
• Austria > Foreign public opinion, American
• United States > Foreign public opinion, Austrian
• Austria
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Towards the American century: Austria and the United States / Günter Bischof -- Perception and promotion of Austrian regions and resorts in transatlantic perspective / Waldemar Zacharasiewicz -- Today America feeds Austria's children: food, supplies and propaganda - Austria and the United States after the Great War / Franz Adlgasser -- The loser's voice: post-World War I Hungarian propaganda in the English-speaking world / Tibor Frank -- Heroines of Austria and yet American: Lillian Hellman, Muriel Gardiner, and the promotion of resistance / Carmen Birkle -- Vienna therapy: anti-Jewish prejudice in American Freud-bashing / Christoph Irmscher -- Jimmy Berg: from cabaret to bridging the Atlantic by radio / Matej Santi -- The case for Austrian independence. Ernst Lothar's exile novels / Wynfrid Kriegleder -- Heroes, traitors, basterds and bastards: travelling memories on the liberation of Nazism / Peter Pirker -- Communicating the Marshall Plan in Austria - since 1947 / Hans Petschar -- Touristic imaginaries: comparing categories, topics and myths in Austria and the United States / Manfred Prisching -- Occupied images. Photojournalism and visual propaganda in Austria 1945-1955 / Margarethe Szeless & Marion Krammer -- The anti-communist politics of East-West scholar exchanges in the Cold War / Matthias Duller -- Reflecting the American cultural canon: Vienna's Museum of the Twentieth Century in the context of Westernization discourses / Veronika Floch -- Falco and Waldheim 1986: Austria and its past on the international stage - but where is the music? / Elias Berner -- The future was dark: Das finstere Tal as Alpine Western / Ralph Poole.

Call Number

JFE 23-252

ISBN

• 9783700188742
• 3700188749

LCCN

9783700188742

OCLC

1290160812

Title

Cultural politics, transfer, and propaganda : mediated narratives and images in Austrian-American relations / Waldemar Zacharasiewicz & Siegfried Beer (eds.).

Publisher

Vienna : Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, [2021]

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse. Sitzungsberichte, 0029-8832 ; 916. Band

Sitzungsberichte (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse) ; 916. Bd.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Zacharasiewicz, Waldemar, editor.

Beer, Siegfried, editor.

Cover Title

Cultural politics, transfer & propaganda

Other Standard Identifier

9783700188742

Research Call Number

JFE 23-252