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Article: International conspiracy in and around The Iron Curtain.
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- Velvet Light Trap
- Article date:
- March 22, 1995
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MOTION PICTURES HAVE BEEN A MAJOR U.S. export for over seventy-five years. Cultural artifacts are not merely a trade good, however; they also, in a complex way, refract ideas and values. In this article, I explore some aspects of the cultural export process via a case study of the exhibition history of a specific film, The Iron Curtain (William Wellman, 1948), which was made after the collapse of the World War II alliance and the souring of relations between the United States and the Soviet Union. This film positioned Russia as an American adversary and used newly coined terms such as "Cold War" and "iron curtain" to characterize East-West relations. The U.S. government ...
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