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Cover image for book Cold War Rivalry and the Perception of the American West

Cold War Rivalry and the Perception of the American West

By:P. Goral
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781137364296
eText ISBN:9781137364302
Edition:0
Copyright:2014
Format:Reflowable

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This book demonstrates how the two adversaries of the Cold War, West Germany and East Germany, endeavored to create two distinct and unique German identities. In their endeavor to claim legitimacy, the German cinematic representation of the American West became an important cultural weapon of mass dissemination during the Cold War.