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Cultural politics, transfer, and propaganda : mediated narratives and images in Austrian-American relations /

"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 ar...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Zacharasiewicz, Waldemar (Editor), Beer, Siegfried (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Vienna : Verlag der Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, [2021]
Series:Sitzungsberichte (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse) ; 916. Bd.
Subjects:
Political culture > Austria.
Political culture > United States.
Austria > Relations > United States.
United States > Relations > Austria.
Austria > Foreign public opinion, American.
United States > Foreign public opinion, Austrian.
International relations.
Political culture.
Public opinion, American.
Public opinion, Austrian.
Austria.
United States.
Table of 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.