The Cold War in U.S. Culture (1947-1965) - Einzelansicht

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Veranstaltungsart	Seminar	Veranstaltungsnummer
SWS	2	Semester	WiSe 2017/18
Einrichtung	Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik	Sprache	englisch
Weitere Links	Kommentar
Belegungsfrist	04.10.2017 - 10.11.2017 Belegung über PULS

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		Tag	Zeit	Rhythmus	Dauer	Raum	Lehrperson	Ausfall-/Ausweichtermine	Max. Teilnehmer/-innen
	Seminar	Di	10:00 bis 12:00	wöchentlich	17.10.2017 bis 06.02.2018	1.09.1.15		26.12.2017: 2. Weihnachtstag 02.01.2018: Akademische Weihnachtsferien

Kommentar	Für weitere Informationen zum Kommentar, zur Literatur und zum Leistungsnachweis klicken Sie bitte oben auf den Link "Kommentar". The looming threat of nuclear war? An ever-escalating conflict on the Korean Peninsula? Russian Espionage? If this sounds familiar to you due to recent U.S. headlines, it was also everyday news for U.S. Americans living during the 1950s. Taking Carl Sagan’s famous dictum to heart that “you have to know the past to understand the present,” this seminar will explore the political, social and cultural life in the United States during the first two decades of the Cold War (1947-1965). This was a tumultuous period of anxiety, prosperity, and fabulous paradoxes. Peace was pursued through the threat of nuclear annihilation while the American way of life was protected by censoring suspected communists. We will address specific concepts of U.S. Cold War ideology such as containment and brinkmanship as well as look at important historical events like the Rosenberg Trials, the Army-McCarthy hearings, the Space Race, the Korean War, the Building of the Berlin Wall and the Cuban Missile Crisis. We will also examine the ways in which the Cold War shaped gender roles and the family, the struggle for civil rights, student activism, and American entertainment and culture. Furthermore, the seminar will discuss representations of Cold War culture in contemporary literature such as Mickey Spillane’s One Lonely Night (1951), Richard Condon’s The Manchurian Candidate (1959), Don Siegel’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) or Stanley Kubrick’s Doctor Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1965).
Literatur	A reader will be provided via Moodle

Kommentar

Für weitere Informationen zum Kommentar, zur Literatur und zum Leistungsnachweis klicken Sie bitte oben auf den Link "Kommentar".

The looming threat of nuclear war? An ever-escalating conflict on the Korean Peninsula? Russian Espionage? If this sounds familiar to you due to recent U.S. headlines, it was also everyday news for U.S. Americans living during the 1950s. Taking Carl Sagan’s famous dictum to heart that “you have to know the past to understand the present,” this seminar will explore the political, social and cultural life in the United States during the first two decades of the Cold War (1947-1965). This was a tumultuous period of anxiety, prosperity, and fabulous paradoxes. Peace was pursued through the threat of nuclear annihilation while the American way of life was protected by censoring suspected communists. We will address specific concepts of U.S. Cold War ideology such as containment and brinkmanship as well as look at important historical events like the Rosenberg Trials, the Army-McCarthy hearings, the Space Race, the Korean War, the Building of the Berlin Wall and the Cuban Missile Crisis. We will also examine the ways in which the Cold War shaped gender roles and the family, the struggle for civil rights, student activism, and American entertainment and culture. Furthermore, the seminar will discuss representations of Cold War culture in contemporary literature such as Mickey Spillane’s One Lonely Night (1951), Richard Condon’s The Manchurian Candidate (1959), Don Siegel’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) or Stanley Kubrick’s Doctor Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1965).

Literatur

A reader will be provided via Moodle

Strukturbaum

Keine Einordnung ins Vorlesungsverzeichnis vorhanden. Veranstaltung ist aus dem Semester WiSe 2017/18 , Aktuelles Semester: SoSe 2024