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Innocent Weapons : The Soviet and American Politics of Childhood in the Cold War /
In the 1950s and 1960s, images of children appeared everywhere, from movies to milk cartons, their smiling faces used to sell everything, including war. In this provocative book, Margaret Peacock offers an original account of how Soviet and American leaders used emotionally charged images of childre...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Part I. Building an image, building a consensus
- The contained child on the cusp of a new era
- The "other" child
- Victims, hooligans, and the importance of threat
- Mobilized childhood responds to the threat
- Part II. Revising an ideal : the collapse of an image, the collapse of consensus
- Soviet childhood in film during the thaw
- American childhood and the bomb
- Vietnam and the fall of an image
- Conclusion.