The dancer defects : the struggle for cultural supremacy during the Cold War / David Caute.
Caute, David.
2003
E169.12 .C345 2003 (Mapit)
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Title The dancer defects : the struggle for cultural supremacy during the Cold War / David Caute.
Author Caute, David.
ISBN 0199249083 (alk. paper)
Imprint Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Language English
Description xiv, 788 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number E169.12 .C345 2003
Dewey Decimal Classification 306/.0973
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [733]-755) and index.
Includes filmography: p. [731]-732.
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Introduction: The culture war
pt. 1. Marking the territory. Propaganda wars and cultural treaties
The gladiatorial exhibition
pt. 2. Stage and screen wars: Russians and America. Broadway dead, says Soviet critic
The Russian question: a Russian play
Soviet cinema under Stalin
Hollywood: the Red Menace
Witch hunts: Losey, Kazan, Miller
Soviet cinema: the new wave
pt. 3. Stage and screen wars: Europe. Germany divided: stage and screen
Brecht and the Berliner Ensemble
Dirty Hands: the political theatre of Sartre and Camus
Squaring the circle: Ionesco, Beckett, Havel, Stoppard
Andrzej Wajda: Ashes and diamonds, marble and iron
pt. 4. Music and ballet wars. Classical music wars
Shostakovich's Testimony
All that jazz: Iron Curtain calls
The ballet dancer defects
pt. 5. Art wars. Stalinist art: Tractor drivers' supper
Passports for paintings: abstract expressionism and the CIA
Picasso and communist art in France
The other Russia: pictures by "jackasses'.

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