International studies, Vol. IX No. 2, 2009.
Original scientific paper
Politization of American Culture During the Cold War
Jadranka Dujić Frlan
; Zagreb County, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Although the Cold War began sixty years ago, it still presents an issue of interest for numerous scientists. During the past ten years various studies have been published analyzing the Cold War even as a cultural phenomena, many of which coming up with new founding's, new research
evidences and aiming not only at positioning the phenomena within the international political relations but also at assessing its cultural dimension. By doing that as well as by identifying specific culture dimensions during the Cold War, including: fear of nuclear war; political paranoia (particularly the phenomena of communists hunt and McCarthysm), espionage, manipulation techniques, repression and different forms of propaganda, one aims at demonstrating the model
which was used to create the atmosphere of fear under which it was possible to conduct political decisions and fulfilling political goals.
Keywords
culture; ideology; propaganda; international relations; McCarthysm
Hrčak ID:
291366
URI
Publication date:
1.6.2009.
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