Rethinking the Cinematic Cold War: The Struggle for Hearts and Minds Goes Global
Stefano Pisu · Francesco Pitassio · Maurizio Zinni
Mar 2025 · Visual and Media Cultures of the Cold War and Beyond Book 3 · Berghahn Books
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Historical consensus increasingly views the Cold War period as a multifaceted conflict which extended beyond the borders of the USSR and USA, encompassing both cultural and diplomatic history. Debate remains, however, about how best to balance the Cold War as a cultural event with the existence of Cold War culture. Rethinking the Cinematic Cold War provides a fresh reassessment of this period, highlighting how the convergence of geopolitical interests, cultural production and exchange, and technological and media history shaped a unique epoch. Consequently, this volume seeks to diagnose the role cinema played in expanding the ideological outlook of artists, audiences, and policymakers.
About the author
Francesco Pitassio is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Udine, specializing in film acting and stardom and Italian and Central-Eastern European film history. Formerly the Italian Principal Investigator for the EU-HERA project, VICTOR-E: Visual Culture of Trauma, Obliteration, and Reconstruction in Post-WW II Europe from 2019 to 2022, his work includes Attore/Divo(Il Castoro, 2003), and Neorealist Film Culture (Amsterdam University Press, 2019). He edited, with Dorota Ostrowska and Zsuzsanna Varga, Popular Cinemas in East Central Europe. Film Cultures and Histories(I.B. Tauris, 2017).
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