The Dancer Defects
The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy during the Cold War
- Author: Caute, David
Book
$88.25Special import
Contents
- Introduction: The Culture War
- Part I: Marking the Territory
- 1 Propaganda Wars and Cultural Treaties
- 2 The Gladiatorial Exhibition
- Part II: Stage and Screen Wars: Russia and America
- 3 Broadway Dead, Says Soviet Critic
- 4 The Russian Question - A Russian Play
- 5 Soviet Cinema under Stalin
- 6 Hollywood: The Red Menace
- 7 Witch Hunts: Losey, Kazan, Miller
- 8 Soviet Cinema: The New Wave
- Part III: Stage and Screen Wars: Europe
- 9 Germany Divided: Stage and Screen
- 10 Brecht and the Berliner Ensemble
- 11 Dirty Hands: The Political Theatre of Sartre and Camus
- 12 Squaring the Circle: Ionesco, Beckett, Havel and Stoppard
- 13 Andrzej Wajda: Ashes and Diamonds, Marble and Iron
- Part IV: Music and Ballet Wars
- 14 Classical Music Wars
- 15 Shostakovich's Testimony
- 16 All that Jazz: Iron Curtain Falls
- 17 The Ballet Dancer Defects
- Part V: Art Wars
- 18 Stalinist Art: Tractor Driver's Supper
- 19 Passports for Paintings: Abstract Impressionism and the CIA
- 20 Picasso and Communist France
- 21 The Other Russia: Pictures by 'Jackasses'
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Notes and References
