Understanding the imaginary war SPORTS & RECREATION / Cultural & Social Aspects

Understanding the imaginary war SPORTS & RECREATION / Cultural & Social AspectsPresents a comparative overview of the cultural imaginations of nuclear weapons and the anticipation of nuclear destruction. It considers representations of elements of the Cold War in popular culture and thought across Europe, Japan, USSR and the USA, providing a significant addition to Cold War historiography.

The first study of nineteenth-century hypnotism based primarily on the popular – rather than medical – appreciation of the subject

philosophy and ecology

even reframe prevailing ideas about citizenship during the Second World War

working-class Protestants and Catholics forged a tradition of violence that profoundly shaped their own identities and that of the city itself

filmic autobiography and first-person narration

Entering into productive dialogue with recent trends in criticism

But Marianne has a different agenda

and Maori feature film making

offer important perspectives on contemporary French ideas about national identity

The making of the GDR 1945-53 is a groundbreaking analysis of the Stalinisation of East Germany

Other features include a transcript of an interview with Dan Formosa

Disgruntled by the treatment of Black soldiers in the military