Cinema and representation in international realtions : Hollywood cinema and the cold war

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Şengül, Ali Fuat

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The thesis seeks to trace the development of the process of ءreflection as reality̕ through a politico-historical analysis of the intimacies between the United States governments and Hollywood cinema during the Cold War. The working assumption while projecting this study is as follows; the Hollywood cinema and the United States governments enjoyed a close relationship during the period in question. The latter actively involved in the inscription of the wills and desires of US Foreign policymakers into the American popular culture. The thesis will also extend the discussion to a politic cultural assessment of how the United States, through the films, represents and re-presents its superiority, and more importantly, how these films affect and shape the spectators perceptions about its foreign policy.

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General Social Sciences.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/15253

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A. F. Şengül, “Cinema and representation in international realtions : Hollywood cinema and the cold war,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2005.