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From World War to Waldheim : Culture and Politics in Austria and the United States / ed. by Ruth Wodak, David F. Good.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Austrian and Habsburg Studies ; 2Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [1999]Copyright date: ©1999Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781571811035
  • 9781782388265
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306/.09436 21
LOC classification:
  • E183.8.A8 F76 1999
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- THE SOUND OF FORGETTING MEETS THE UNITED STATES OF AMNESIA -- Part One. THE POLITICS OF AUSTRIAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS -- Chapter 1. AMERICAN ATTITUDES TOWARD AUSTRIA AND AUSTRIAN-GERMAN RELATIONS SINCE 1945 -- Chapter 2. BRUNO KREISKY’S PERCEPTIONS OF THE UNITED STATES -- Chapter 3. BITBURG, WALDHEIM, AND THE POLITICS OF REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING -- Part Two. THE AUSTRIAN IMPACT ON AMERICAN CULTURE -- Chapter 4. MASS EMIGRATION AND INTELLECTUAL EXILE FROM NATIONAL SOCIALISM -- Chapter 5. THE INFLUENCE OF AUSTRIAN ÉMIGRÉS ON THE DEVELOPMENT AND EXPANSION OF PSYCHOANALYSIS IN THE UNITED STATES AFTER 1945 -- Chapter 6. HEIMAT HOLLYWOOD -- Part Three. AMERICA AND AUSTRIAN POLITICAL CULTURE -- Chapter 7. ROBERTWISE’S THE SOUND OF MUSIC AND THE “DENAZIFICATION” OF AUSTRIA IN AMERICAN CINEMA -- Chapter 8. POLITICAL CULTURE AND THE ABORTION CONFLICT -- Chapter 9. AMERICANIZATION, CULTURAL CHANGE, AND AUSTRIAN IDENTITY -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX
Summary: The growing internationalization of the world poses a fundamental question, i.e., through what mechanisms does culture diffuse across political boundaries and what is the role of politics in shaping this diffusion? This volume offers some answers through the case study of the relationship between two quite different states during the Cold War era - Austria, a small neutral country, and the United States, the reigning superpower. The authors challenge naive notions of cultural diffusion that posit the submission of small "peripheral" areas to the dictates of hegemonic powers at the "core." "Americanization" has no doubt taken place since 1945; however, local forces crucially shaped this process, and Austrian elites enjoyed considerable leeway in pursuing "Austrian" political objectives. On the other hand, with the expulsion of Vienna's cultural and intellectual elite after the Anschluß, the United States, more than any othercountry, became heir to the rich cultural legacy of "Vienna 1900," which profoundly shaped politics and culture in both its "high" and popular forms in postwar America. The relationship climaxed and came full circle with the unfolding of the Waldheim affair, which forced Americans and Austrians to reinterpret the meaning of the Nazi era for their own history in a confrontation with the "other."
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- THE SOUND OF FORGETTING MEETS THE UNITED STATES OF AMNESIA -- Part One. THE POLITICS OF AUSTRIAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS -- Chapter 1. AMERICAN ATTITUDES TOWARD AUSTRIA AND AUSTRIAN-GERMAN RELATIONS SINCE 1945 -- Chapter 2. BRUNO KREISKY’S PERCEPTIONS OF THE UNITED STATES -- Chapter 3. BITBURG, WALDHEIM, AND THE POLITICS OF REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING -- Part Two. THE AUSTRIAN IMPACT ON AMERICAN CULTURE -- Chapter 4. MASS EMIGRATION AND INTELLECTUAL EXILE FROM NATIONAL SOCIALISM -- Chapter 5. THE INFLUENCE OF AUSTRIAN ÉMIGRÉS ON THE DEVELOPMENT AND EXPANSION OF PSYCHOANALYSIS IN THE UNITED STATES AFTER 1945 -- Chapter 6. HEIMAT HOLLYWOOD -- Part Three. AMERICA AND AUSTRIAN POLITICAL CULTURE -- Chapter 7. ROBERTWISE’S THE SOUND OF MUSIC AND THE “DENAZIFICATION” OF AUSTRIA IN AMERICAN CINEMA -- Chapter 8. POLITICAL CULTURE AND THE ABORTION CONFLICT -- Chapter 9. AMERICANIZATION, CULTURAL CHANGE, AND AUSTRIAN IDENTITY -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX

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The growing internationalization of the world poses a fundamental question, i.e., through what mechanisms does culture diffuse across political boundaries and what is the role of politics in shaping this diffusion? This volume offers some answers through the case study of the relationship between two quite different states during the Cold War era - Austria, a small neutral country, and the United States, the reigning superpower. The authors challenge naive notions of cultural diffusion that posit the submission of small "peripheral" areas to the dictates of hegemonic powers at the "core." "Americanization" has no doubt taken place since 1945; however, local forces crucially shaped this process, and Austrian elites enjoyed considerable leeway in pursuing "Austrian" political objectives. On the other hand, with the expulsion of Vienna's cultural and intellectual elite after the Anschluß, the United States, more than any othercountry, became heir to the rich cultural legacy of "Vienna 1900," which profoundly shaped politics and culture in both its "high" and popular forms in postwar America. The relationship climaxed and came full circle with the unfolding of the Waldheim affair, which forced Americans and Austrians to reinterpret the meaning of the Nazi era for their own history in a confrontation with the "other."

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