Web Resources for AMST 445
The Cold War in American Culture
Craig McConnell



Reading Assignments by Week:

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Week Title

On Reserve

 JSTOR Muse
2 Wasser, “Is Hollywood America?” in Ross, ed. Movies and American Society (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002): 345-358. (Distr. in class
1-25-07)		    
  Barson and Heller, "The Iron Curtain Descends" in Red Scared:  The Commie Menace in Propaganda and Popular Culture (San Francisco:  Chronicle Books, 2001):  60-87. (Distr. in class
1-25-07)		    
  Goldman, “Containment, Foreign and Domestic,”  in The Crucial Decade:  America, 1945-1955. (New York: Vintage Books, 1956.) (Distr. in class
1-25-07)		    

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 Filreis, “Words with ‘All the Effects of Force’: Cold War Interpretation.” American Quarterly 39 (1987): 306-312.   O  
3 Farnham and Lundberg, Modern Woman: The Lost Sex (excerpts) (Distr. in class
2-1-07)		    
  Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (excerpts) (Distr. in class
2-1-07)		    
  D’Emilio, "The Homosexual Menace" (Distr. in class
2-1-07)		    
  Kennedy and Davis, "The Reproduction of Butch-Fem Roles" (Distr. in class
2-1-07)		    
4 Barson and Heller, "I’m No Communist," in Red Scared. (Distr. in class
2-1-07)		    
  Savage, “The Red Menace,” Ch. 3 in Comic Books and America, 1945-1954.  (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990). (Distr. in class
2-1-07)		    
  Whalen-Bridge, “Some Versions of the Cold War.” American Literature. 74 (2002): 619-633.  (Essay Review)     O

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 Foreman, “Ideology, Culture, and Character.” American Quarterly 45 (1993): 176-186. (Essay Review)   O  
5 Boyer, “President Truman, The American People, and The Atomic Bomb” in Fallout: A Historian Reflects on America’s Half-Century Encounter with Nuclear Weapons.  (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998.) (Distr. in class
2-15-07)		    
  Savage, “The Bomb,” Ch. 2 in Comic Books and America, 1945-1954.   (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990). (Distr. in class
2-15-07)		    

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 Caputi, “Nuclear Visions.” American Quarterly 47 (1995): 165-175.   O  
6 Belton, “Hollywood and the Cold War” in Ross, ed. Movies and American Society (Oxford:  Blackwell, 2002): 193-219. (Distr. in class
2-22-07)		    
7 Douglas, “Fractured Fairy Tales,” in Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media. (New York: Times Books, 1995.) (Distr. in class
2-22-07)		    

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 Hunter, “Putting Sex in its Place.” American Quarterly 43 (1991): 525-533.   O  
8 Goldman, “Year of Shocks,”  in The Crucial Decade:  America, 1945-1955. (New York: Vintage Books, 1956.) (Distr. in class
3-8-07)		    
9 Boyer, “Dr. Strangelove: Stanley Kubrick Presents the Apocalypse” in Fallout: A Historian Reflects on America’s Half-Century Encounter with Nuclear Weapons.  (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998.) (Distr. in class
3-8-07)		    
11 Gaddis, "The New Cold War History" in Now We Know (Distr. in class
3-22-07)		    
  Schoenfeld "Twenty-four Lies about the Cold War" (Distr. in class
3-22-07)		    
  Boyle, “The Cold War Revisited.” Journal of Contemporary History 35 (2000): 479-489.   O  
12  G Schaub, “Without Fanfare or Foucault: The Cold War and the Loss of a Defining Narrative.” Clio 26 (1996): 97-110. (Distr. in class
4-5-07)		    
14 Kuisel, Seducing the French (Distr. in class
3-22-07)		    

 

 Pells, Not Like Us: How Europeans Have Loved, Hated, and Transformed American Culture Since World War II. (New York: Basic Books, 1997.) (Distr. in class
3-22-07)		    
  Gaddis, "The Cuban Missile Crisis" (Distr. in class
3-22-07)		    
15 Boyer and Idsvoog, “Nuclear Menace in the Mass Culture of the Late Cold War Era and Beyond” in Fallout: A Historian Reflects on America’s Half-Century Encounter with Nuclear Weapons.  (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998.) (Distr. in class
3-22-07)		    
  Schlesinger, Jr., "Some Lessons from the Cold War" (Distr. in class
3-22-07)		    


(G indicates reading is optional for undergraduates; required for graduate students.)