Empire of Pictures

Global Media and the 1960s Remaking of American Foreign Policy
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78920-057-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 407 g

Reihe: Explorations in Culture and International History

In Cold War historiography, the 1960s are often described as a decade of mounting diplomatic tensions and international social unrest. At the same time, they were a period of global media revolution: communication satellites compressed time and space, television spread around the world, and images circulated through print media in expanding ways. Examining how U.S. policymakers exploited these changes, this book offers groundbreaking international research into the visual media battles that shaped America's Cold War from West Germany and India to Tanzania and Argentina.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kunkel, Sönke

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikation & Medien in der Politik
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Mediengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Außenpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Preface

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Why Empires Need Pictures

PART I: THE RISE OF THE VISUAL AGE

Chapter 1. The Picture State and Its Innovators  

Chapter 2. Contact Points with Empire and the Globalizing of Media

PART II: PICTURING EMPIRE

Chapter 3. Prosperity: Official Visits to the United States

Chapter 4. Progress: Popular Aspirations, the Global South, and the Politics of Imagination

Chapter 5. Peace: Space Flights as “Pictorial Acts”

Chapter 6. Power: Global Media and the Other History of the Vietnam War

Conclusion: From Nixon to Obama, or: The Legacy of the 1960s

Endnotes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kunkel, Sönke
Sönke Kunkel is Professor of North American History at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Free University of Berlin. His publications include two edited volumes and numerous essays on U.S. foreign policy. He was research fellow at the universities of Oxford, Harvard, Ohio State, and Jacobs University Bremen.