Close encounters around the world

the research presented in this collection aspires to develop a multidimensional approach, with the purpose of emphasising how articulated the dynamics of the cinematic Cold War were, or, rather, how rich the dynamics and experience were of ‘cinema during the Cold War’. In fact, this volume adopted the lens of ‘entangled history’,3 while expanding the scope of the research well beyond the usual protagonists of the Cold War, that is, the USA and USSR, and therefore embracing the ‘global history’ perspective fostered in the past decades.