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Veranstaltungsname	Seminar: Exploring the Cold War in American Culture
Untertitel	Aufbaumodul: Kulturwissenschaft I / Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft 2: Kultur und Gesellschaft der Gegenwart / Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft Großbritannien/USA 2 (1. Teil)
Semester	WS 2017/18
Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden	4
Heimat-Einrichtung	Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Veranstaltungstyp	Seminar in der Kategorie Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Erster Termin	Dienstag, 10.10.2017 10:15 - 11:45, Ort: (Adam-Kuckhoff-Str. 35, SR 2)
Voraussetzungen	Students who have successfully passed their Basismodul Einführung in das Studium der angloameri¬kanischen Kulturwissenschaft (ANG.02620.02) are welcome to this class that focuses on American culture during the Cold War (1945-1991). Anybody taking it will have to be prepared to study the historical and political confrontation between the USSR and the USA on a global scale. Only then will we be able to grasp American culture in the postwar decades as it was characterized by global political confrontations producing a climate of angst and polarity.
Lernorganisation	In order for students to pick up some skills necessary in academia, we will spend some time on how to do research and presentations as well as on how to write papers. The university library (OPAC and other databases) will be a topic as will be the Internet as a research tool (JStor, Google Scholar etc.). In addition, there will be an introduction to CITAVI and how to use that bibliographical tool. The MLA style sheet (7th ed., 2009) is our model for all written work. (Please, do NOT use MLA 8th ed., 2016.) How to write essays the way American colleges expect them to be written will also be discussed.
Leistungsnachweis	Requirements Students are requested to listen to the BBC series "Cold War Stories: Stories from the Big Freeze" that was produced and aired in 2016 and 2017. Podcasts of this program can be downloaded at BBC's Radio 4 programme at <www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08xrrnl/episodes/downloads>. These ca. eight hours of narrative history of the Cold War will be very helpful in understanding what climate the Cold War created in Europe and beyond. Please, do not miss more than three classes. All students are expected to participate actively in discussions. Also, students must present in class (20 mins. plus discussion) on a topic to be arranged with the lecturer. It must be accompanied by a handout (Thesenpapier). Please, send your handout to the lecturer a week before your presentation is due. A copy of the reviewed handout must be available to all students on the day of presentation. Reading assignments (secondary literature) will be given on a weekly basis. Studying in groups is encouraged. At the end of the semester students will have to write an essay/Hausarbeit (ca. 12-14 pages) preferably on the topic they have started to explore in their presentations. The essays are due at the end of March 2018.
Studiengänge (für)	ANG.05272.03 Aufbaumodul: Kulturwissenschaft I ANG.03588.02 Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft 2: Kultur und Gesellschaft der Gegenwart ANG.04770.02 Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft Großbritannien/USA 2 (1. Teil)
SWS	2
Sonstiges	LITERATURE Did you know that as a student at MLU you are entitled to a free version of Citavi? Citavi manages your sources and, among many other things, produces bibliographies in MLA style with a click of your mouse. Check details at <bibliothek.uni-halle.de/benutz/citavi/>. TEXTBOOKS [PLEASE, PURCHASE THESE EDITIONS SO WE ALL CAN USE THE SAME EDITION IN CLASS] Todd, Allan. History for the IB Diploma: The Cold War: Superpower Tensions and Rivalries. 2nd ed. Cambridge: CUP, 2015. [EAN 978-1-107-55632-4] Whitfield, Stephen J. The Culture of the Cold War. 2nd ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1996. Print. The American moment. [ca. 17.50 €] [EAN 978-0-801-85196-4] SECONDARY SOURCES ON THE COLD WAR Appy, Christian G., ed. Cold war constructions: The political culture of United States imperialism, 1945-1966. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 2010. Print. Culture, politics, and the cold war. Bacon, Jon L. Flannery O'Connor and Cold War Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005. Print. Cambridge studies in American literature and culture 72. Barnhisel, Greg, and Catherine Turner. Pressing the fight: Print, propaganda, and the Cold War. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 2010. Print. Studies in print culture and the history of the book. Engelhardt, Tom. The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation. 2nd ed. Amherst: Uof Massachusetts P, 2007. Print. Culture, politics, and the cold war. Field, Douglas. American Cold War Culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2005. Print. Fleming, John V. The anti-communist manifestos: Four books that shaped the Cold War. New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 2009. Print. Gaddis, John L. The Cold War: A new history. New York: Penguin Press, 2005. Print. In German: Gaddis, John L., and Klaus-Dieter Schmidt. Der Kalte Krieg: Eine neue Geschichte. München: Pantheon, 2008. Print. Hench, John B. Books as weapons: Propaganda, publishing, and the battle for global markets in the era of World War II. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 2010. Print. Immerman, Richard H., and Petra Goedde, eds. The Oxford handbook of the Cold War. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2013. Print. Kendall, Bridget. The Cold War: A New Oral History of Life Between East and West. In collaboration with series producers Phil Tinline and Martin Williams. London: BBC Books, 2017. Print. pb ed. 2018. Krabbendam, Hans, and Giles Scott-Smith. The Cultural Cold War in Western Europe, 1945-60, 2004. Web. Leffler, Melvyn P., and Odd A. Westad. The Cambridge History of the Cold War. 3 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010. Print. The Cambridge History of the Cold War. McConachie, Bruce A. American theater in the culture of the Cold War: Producing and contesting containment, 1947-1962. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 2003. Print. Studies in theatre history and culture. Poiger, Uta G. Jazz, Rock, and Rebels: Cold War Politics and American Culture in a Divided Germany. Berkeley, CA: U of California P, 2000. Print. Studies on the history of society and culture 35. Saunders, Frances S. The cultural cold war: The CIA and the world of arts and letters. Paperback ed. New York: New P, 2013. Print. Orig. publ. New York: Norton, 2000. Schaub, Thomas H. American Fiction in the Cold War. Madison, WI: U of Wisconsin P, 1991. Print. History of American thought and culture. Schwartz, Richard A. Cold War Culture: Media and the arts, 1945-1990. New York: Checkmark Books, 2000. Print. Scott-Smith, Giles, and Hans Krabbendam, eds. The cultural Cold War in Western Europe 1945 - 1960. London: Cass, 2003. Print. Cass series Studies in intelligence. SECONDARY SOURCES ON HISTORY AND POLITICS IN THE USA Berg, Manfred. Geschichte der USA. München: Oldenbourg, 2013. Print. Oldenbourg-Grundriss der Geschichte 42. Brinkley, Alan. American History: A Survey. 11th ed. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, 2003. Print. Brogan, Hugh. The Penguin History of the United States of America. 2nd ed. London: Penguin Books, 2008. Print. Dippel, Horst. Geschichte der USA. 10., überarb. und aktualisierte Aufl. München: Beck, 2016. Print. Beck'sche Reihe C.-H.-Beck-Wissen 2051. Gassert, Philipp, Mark Häberlein, and Michael Wala. Kleine Geschichte der USA. Stuttgart: Reclam, 2008. Print. Reclams Universal-Bibliothek 17061. Heideking, Jürgen, Christof Mauch, and Michael Wala. Geschichte der USA. 6., überarb. und erw. Aufl. Tübingen: Francke, 2008. Print. UTB Geschichte 1938. Kazin, Michael, Rebecca Edwards, and Adam Rothman, eds. The Concise Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History. Princeton, N.J. Princeton UP, 2011. Print. Mauch, Christof, Rüdiger B. Wersich, and Angelika Möller, eds. USA-Lexikon: Schlüsselbegriffe zu Politik, Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft, Kultur, Geschichte und zu den deutsch-amerikanischen Beziehungen. 2., völlig neu bearb. und wesentlich erw. Aufl. Berlin: Schmidt, 2013. Print.  MLU UB Steintor, Anglistik 3. OG – call number: A 4.0.-65b Patterson, James T. Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974. New York: Oxford UP, 1997. Print. The Oxford history of the United States 10. Raeithel, Gert. Geschichte der nordamerikanischen Kultur. 3 Bde. Weinheim: Quadriga, 1987-1989. Print. [Vol. 1: Vom Puritanismus bis zum Bürgerkrieg: 1600 – 1860. (1987)] [Vol. 2: Vom Bürgerkrieg bis zum New Deal: 1860 – 1930. (1988)] [Vol. 3: Vom New Deal bis zur Gegenwart: 1930 – 1988. (1989)] Sautter, Udo. Geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika. 8., völlig überarb. und erw. Aufl. Stuttgart: Kröner, 2013. Print. Kröners Taschenausgabe 443.
ECTS-Punkte	5

Lehrende

Dr. Martin Meyer

Räume und Zeiten

(Adam-Kuckhoff-Str. 35, SR 2): Dienstag: 10:15 - 11:45, wöchentlich (14x)

Studienbereiche

Philosophische Fakultät II - Philologien, Kommunikations- und Musikwissenschaften > Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik > Angloamerikanische Kulturwissenschaft

Modulzuordnungen

Kommentar/Beschreibung

In his biography Timebends (1987) Arthur Miller reflects upon the immediate postwar years writing: "The Germans clearly were to be our new friends, and the savior-Russians the enemy, an ignoble thing, it seemed to me" (160). What the American playwright refers to is the dazzling shift of political alliances before, during, and after WW II. The Russian revolution in 1917 had produced a new political and economic model that some Americans started to view as an alternative for the USA, especially when the stock market crash of 1929 and the ensuing widespread poverty in the 1930s seemed to demonstrate that democracy and capitalism were in a crisis. Some sympathizers in the USA started to become critical of the Soviet Union, though, when Stalin's purges in the 1930s cost millions of people their lives. And many more defected from the new ideology when Germany and the USSR agreed on a non-aggression treaty a week before the Wehrmacht assaulted Poland in Sept. 1939. Two years later, all skepticism had to be put aside, however, when it became clear that the USA had to support the allies incl. the USSR in defeating Nazi Germany. As soon as the war was over, the fight for a new order in Europe and beyond became evident in the East and the West.

Between 1945 and 1991 the Cold War did not only bring about political conflicts in Europe (Berlin 1948, 1953, and 1961; Hungary 1956; Prague 1968), but also in Asia (Korea 1950; Vietnam 1950s-70s), America (Cuba 1962, Chile 1973), and Africa (Egypt 1976, Angola 1974-75) to name but some important ones. It also produced a climate of fear with a military potential on the sides of the superpowers large enough to destroy any meaningful human life on the planet. As a result, the confrontation dominated everyday life in the USA. Its presence could be felt in many fields of American culture: in the press, on TV, in the movies, on the stage, in literature, religion and in many other areas.

After a historical and political survey of the Cold War at the beginning of the seminar students are expected to actively cooperate in "exploring" the Cold War in American culture. We will use two textbooks: Allan Todd's History for the IB Diploma: The Cold War (2nd. ed., 2015) for the historical background and Stephen J. Whitfield's The Culture of the Cold War (2nd ed., 1996) for emphasis on the culture of the cold war. Students will be asked to select one topic in American culture that they are especially interested in (literature, theater, press, TV, movies, academia etc.) and analyse how the Cold War emanated into these cultural arenas.