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Author Kunkel, Sönke, author.

Title Empire of pictures : global media and the 1960s remaking of American foreign policy / Sönke Kunkel.

Publication Info. New York : Berghahn Books, [2016]
©2016

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Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Explorations in culture and international history ; volume 8
Explorations in culture and international history series ; volume 8.
Summary "In Cold War historiography, the 1960s are often described as a decade of mounting diplomatic tensions and international social unrest. At the same time, they were a period of global media revolution: communication satellites compressed time and space, television spread around the world, and images circulated through print media in expanding ways. Examining how U.S. policymakers exploited these changes, this book offers groundbreaking international research which shows that U.S. power came to depend more and more not on military superiority or economic strength alone, but also on America's ability to create appealing pictures that assured recognition of its global leadership"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Why Empires Need Pictures -- Part I: The Rise of the Visual Age -- The Picture State and Its Innovators -- Contact Points with Empire and the Globalizing of Media -- Part II: Picturing Empire -- Prosperity : Official Visits to the United States -- Progress : Popular Aspirations, the Global South, and the Politics of Imagination -- Peace : Space Flights as "Pictorial Acts" -- Power : Global Media and the Other History of the Vietnam War -- Conclusion: From Nixon to Obama, or, The Legacy of the 1960s.
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Subject United States -- Foreign relations -- 1961-1963.
United States.
International relations.
Chronological Term 1961-1963
Subject United States -- Foreign relations -- 1963-1969.
Chronological Term 1963-1969
Subject Pictures -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Pictures.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Globalization -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Globalization -- Political aspects.
Imperialism -- History -- 20th century.
Imperialism.
History.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
Mass media -- Political aspects.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
Diplomatic relations.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Kunkel, Sönke. Empire of pictures. First edition. New York : Berghahn Books, 2015 9781782388425 (DLC) 2015007894 (OCoLC)900445969
ISBN 9781782388432 (electronic book)
1782388435 (electronic book)
9781782388425
1782388427
9781789200577 (paperback : acid-free paper)
1789200571