Rethinking the Cinematic Cold War: The Struggle for Hearts and Minds Goes Global

This collection aims at balancing the established consideration of the cultural Cold War,11 that is, cultural products and endeavours intended to achieve political goals during the Cold War, with the more recent attention to Cold War culture, that is, the production, circulation, and consumption of symbolic goods during this period.12 With regard to the cinematic Cold War, this collection does away with the well-rooted paradigm which opposes on the one hand auteurs and artworks, and on the other hand a political power oppressing the former through censorship. This collection, within the limited field of film studies, aspires to survey how cinema contributed to expanding the experience of artists, practitioners, audiences, and, sometimes, policymakers too, thanks to and beyond ideology.