ISBN:
9781438439778
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (301 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.48/24707309045
Keywords:
Nationalism and feminism
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Mass media and nationalism
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Nationalism
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Mass media and international relations
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National characteristics, Russian
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National characteristics in mass media
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Sex role
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Feminist theory
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Mass media and nationalism -- United States
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Nationalism -- United States
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Feminist theory
;
Mass media and international relations
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Mass media and nationalism ; United States
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National characteristics in mass media
;
National characteristics, Russian
;
Nationalism ; United States
;
Sex role
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Electronic books
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United States Foreign relations
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United States Foreign relations
Abstract:
Intro -- IMAGINING RUSSIA -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Imagining Russia -- Foundational Precepts -- Implications and Interventions -- 1. The Geopolitical Traffic in Gendered Russian Imaginaries -- Gendered Russian Nationalism -- Gendered American Nationalism -- Russia and Russians in a U.S. Context -- U.S. Foreign Policy and the Triumphalist Mythscape -- 2. Freedom for Whom?Support for What?Making Feminist Sense of U.S. Russia Policy -- Provisions and Objectives -- Implementation -- Capitalism as Freedom -- Imaginaries at Work -- Russia as Child/United States as Great, White Father -- Russia as Student/United States as Tutor -- Russia as Frontier/United States as Entrepreneurial Pioneer -- Russia as Pathologically Ill Patient/United States as Doctor -- Russia as Retrogressive Baba/United States as Responsible Superpower -- Imperial Masculinity -- 3. Death and the Maiden: The Representational Violence of Imperial Nostalgia -- Conjuring the Ghost -- Anastasia on Stage and Screen -- A Reflection of U.S.-Russia Policy -- Reckoning with the Ghost -- 4. Crime, Corruption and Chaos Sex Trafficking and the Failure of United States Russia Policy -- American Heroes -- Russian Victims and Villains -- With Impunity: The United States as Innocent Bystander -- From Mother Russia to Miss Russia -- 5. "It's a Cold War Mentality"U.S.-Russian Relations on The West Wing -- The West Wing and U.S. Political Culture -- Gendered Discursive Configurations -- Vassily Konanov as Boris Yeltsin: "Our Kind of Crazy" -- Cold War Holdouts -- Peter Chigorin as Vladimir Putin: Bartlet's Last Best Hope -- Whose Cold-war Mentality? -- 6. The Cultural Politics of Cold War: The International Spy Museum and the U.S. Security State -- A Cold-war Museum -- Atomic Secrets -- The Rosenbergs as Discursive Phenomena.
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