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    Politics, Propaganda, and Pop Culture: Cold War Television Cultures
    Christopher Porter; Anthony Salisbury; Tyler Ripley (Virginia Tech Department of History in association with Virginia Tech Publishing, 2024-06)

    Politics, Propaganda, and Pop Culture is a senior capstone book project that examines the role of television in projecting, shaping, and amplifying Cold War ideologies. In the context of the global Cold War, television became the most important medium of communicating ideologies, values, and worldviews to citizens at home and societies abroad. The essays in this volume examine this truism at a variety of discrete historical moments, including the 1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II; the broadcast of experimental nuclear detonations in the American desert; the persistence of fascism in the resurrection of the postwar Italian television service; and coverage of the 1972 World Chess Championship. The authors show that television intervened in social questions such as the Red Scare, the civil rights movement, and shifting representations of gender, but not always in the ways that we might expect. The volume demonstrates that programming can indeed shape attitudes, but just as important are the structures that underpin shifting industrial conditions of television production, distribution and reception. How to access this book
    The main landing page for this book is https://doi.org/10.21061/coldwartelevisioncultures.
    The open textbook is freely available online in multiple formats including PDF and EPUB.
    A paperback print version (in color) is available for order here. ISBNs
    ISBN (PDF): 978-1-962841-08-5
    ISBN (EPUB): 978-1-962841-07-8
    ISBN (print): 978-1-962841-06-1
    Table of contents
    Politics
    1. Crowning a Commonwealth
    2. For War and Peace: Television in the Cold War
    3. Lascia o Coppia: The Legacy of Fascism for Postwar Italian Television
    4. Nuclear Screening: A Look Into The Operation Tumbler-Snapper Television
    Propaganda
    5. Cold War Spy Television: I Led 3 Lives and Communism
    6. Broadcasting War: Vietnam in America
    7. Atomic Television in the 1950s
    8. Bombs Over the Chess Board
    Pop Culture
    9. American Reconciliation with Vietnam Veterans: How Veterans were Portrayed in Television Shows in America Under Reagan
    10. Who Has The Power?: The Unique Landscape of Children’s Television in the 1980s
    11. Civil Rights, NFL Television Culture and Integration
    12. The Best Trash of the Lot: Dallas, Melodrama, and 1980s America Suggested citation
    Christopher Porter, Anthony Salisbury, and Tyler Ripley, eds. (2024). Politics, Propaganda, and Pop Culture: Cold War Television Cultures. Blacksburg: Virginia Tech Department of History. https://doi.org/10.21061/coldwartelevisioncultures. Licensed with CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Accessibility
    Virginia Tech is committed to making its publications accessible in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Virginia Tech Publishing is committed to continuous improvement regarding accessibility. The text, images, headings, and links in the PDF and HTML versions of this text are tagged structurally and include alternative text, which allows for machine readability. Please contact publishing@vt.edu if you are a person with a disability and have suggestions to make this book more accessible. Cover design: Stratis Bohle