Nicholas Barnett - Böcker

The cultural history of the Cold War has been characterized as an explosion of fear and paranoia, based on very little actual intelligence. Both the US and Soviet administrations have since remarked how far off the mark their predictions of the other’s strengths and aims were. Yet so much of the cultural output of the period – in television, film, and literature – was concerned with the end of the world. Here, Nicholas Barnett looks at art and design, opinion polls, the Mass Observation movement, popular fiction and newspapers to show how exactly British people felt about the Soviet Union and the Cold War. In uncovering new primary source material, Barnett shows exactly how this seeped in to the art, literature, music and design of the period.

Exploring British society’s response to cinematic espionageThe chapters of this book explore how British society responded to cinematic and film representations of espionage from the early twentieth century to the present day. Interrogating themes like fear of fifth columns to representation of gender, nation, space and nostalgia, these essays provide commentary on how British culture has depicted this apparently murky underworld.Key Features Re-ignites ongoing debates about the relationship between British culture and espionage Considers issues of gender, politics, memory, and culturePresents fresh readings of cinematic espionage