The Cold War was a media phenomenon. It was a daily cultural political
struggle for the hearts and minds of ordinary people--and for government
leaders, a struggle to undermine their enemies' ability to control the
domestic public sphere. This collection examines how this struggle
played out on screen, radio, and in print from the late 1970s through
the early 1990s, a time when breaking news stories such as Ronald
Reagan's "Star Wars" program and Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of glasnost
captured the world's attention. Ranging from the United States to the
Soviet Union and China, these essays cover photojournalism on both sides
of the Iron Curtain, Polish punk, Norwegian film, Soviet magazines, and
more, concluding with a contribution from Stuart Franklin, one of the
creators of the iconic "Tank Man" image during the Tiananmen Square
protests. By investigating an array of media actors and networks, as
well as narrative and visual frames on a local and transnational level,
this volume lays the groundwork for writing media into the history of
the late Cold War.