The Threat of the Thaw: The Cold War on the Screen

This chapter examines how the Arctic was figured as a porous sheet of ice separating the East and West Blocs during the Cold War and held a privileged position in Hollywood and Soviet filmmaking from the 1950s to the 1980s. Stenport’s case studies range from early alien invasion films such as The Th...

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Main Author: Stenport, Anna Westerståhl
Format: Book Part
Language:unknown
Published: Edinburgh University Press 2015
Subjects:
Arctic
Norway
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748694174.003.0012
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