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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
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David Caute |
ISBN: | 0199249083 9780199249084 |
OCLC Number: | 52486094 |
Description: | xiv, 788 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | 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'. |
Responsibility: | David Caute. |
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This is a profound study of a vast subject which was, we now see, a vital aspect of the Cold War. One now eagerly awaits the second volume. * Contemporary Review * Well-written, meticulously researched, peopled with a cast from Stalin to Nureyev, Eisenstein to Jackson Pollock. * Simon Sebag Montefiore, Financial Times magazine * This is a titanic achievement. * Brian Morton, Sunday Herald (Glasgow) * ... impressive ... Caute encompasses theatre, film, painting, sculpture, classical music, jazz, rock and ballet - with a text that reads with virtuoso fluency. * Classic FM - The Magazine * ... curious and absorbing new book ... an important book. * Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Times Literary Supplement * This is a remarkably thorough and well-researched book, and will become the standard work on the subject. * Simon Heffer, The Literary Review * This is a wonderful biography of the Cold War, fluent and crammed with detail. * Lesley Chamberlain, The Independent Magazine * Just occasionally a reviewer comes across a volume that might well merit the word 'definitive'. Such is the case with this book by David Caute * The Round Tabel, Volume 95/385 * Read more...


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