Dancer Defects, The
The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy During the Cold War
- Author: Caute, David
Dancer Defects, The
The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy During the Cold War
- Author: Caute, David
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With the onset of the Cold War, cultural competition flared up between Moscow and the West. It rapidly penetrated theatre, film, music, ballet, painting, and sculpture. Artists such as Miller, Picasso, Eisenstein, Shostakovich, and Stravinsky became involved in this fierce cultural competition through which each of the major Cold War protagonists sought to establish their supremacy.
Contents
- Introduction: The Culture War
- Part I: Marking the Territory
- 1 Propaganda Wars and Cultural Treaties
- 2 The Gladiatorial Exhibition
- Part II: Stage and Screen Wars: Russia and America
- 3 Broadway Dead, Says Soviet Critic
- 4 The Russian Question - a Russian Play
- 5 Soviet Cinema under Stalin
- 6 Hollywood: The Red Menace
- 7 Witch Hunts: Losey, Kazan, Miller
- 8 Soviet Cinema: The New Wave
- Part III: Stage and Screen Wars: Europe
- 9 Germany Divided: Stage and Screen
- 10 Brecht and the Berliner Ensemble
- 11 Dirty Hands: The Political Theatre of Sartre and Camus
- 12 Squaring the Circle: Ionesco, Beckett, Havel and Stoppard
- 13 Andrzej Wajda: Ashes and Diamonds, Marble and Iron
- Part IV: Music and Ballet Wars
- 14 Classical Music Wars
- 15 Shostakovich's Testimony
- 16 All that Jazz: Iron Curtain Falls
- 17 The Ballet Dancer Defects
- Part V: Art Wars
- 18 Stalinist Art: The Tractor Driver's Supper
- 19 Passports for Paintings: Abstract Impressionism and the CIA
- 20 Picasso and Communist France
- 21 The Other Russia: Pictures by 'Jackasses'
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Notes and References
