Further Reading

Mission to Moscow

David Culbert, "Our Awkward Ally: Mission to Moscow (1943)," in American History/American Film: Interpreting the Hollywood Image, ed. John E. O'Connor and Martin A. Jackson (New York, 1979), 122–54.

David Culbert, ed., Mission to Moscow (Madison, Wis., 1980).

Joseph E. Davies, Mission to Moscow (New York, 1941).

Cinema, Culture, and the State during World War II

Michael C. C. Adams, The Best War Ever: America and World War II (Baltimore, 1994).

John Morton Blum, V Was for Victory: Politics and American Culture during World War II (New York, 1976).

Thomas Doherty, Projections of War: Hollywood, American Culture, and World War II (New York, 1993).

Clayton R. Koppes and Gregory D. Black, Hollywood Goes to War: How Politics, Profits, and Propaganda Shaped World War II Movies (New York, 1987).

Soviet–American Cultural and Diplomatic Relations

John Lewis Gaddis, Russia, the Soviet Union, and the United States: An Interpretive History, 2d ed. (New York, 1990).

Abbott Gleason, Totalitarianism: The Inner History of the Cold War (New York, 1995).

Walter L. Hixson, Parting the Curtain: Propaganda, Culture, and the Cold War, 1945–1961 (New York, 1997).

Eduard Mark, "October or Thermidor? Interpretations of Stalinism and the Perception of Soviet Foreign Policy in the United States, 1927–1947," American Historical Review, 94 (Oct. 1989), 937–62.

J. D. Parks, Culture, Conflict, and Coexistence: American-Soviet Cultural Relations, 1917–1958 (Jefferson, N.C., 1983).

Denise J. Youngblood, "'Americanitis': The Amerikanshchina in Soviet Cinema," Journal of Popular Film & Television, 19 (Winter 1992), 148–56.

International Cultural History

Akira Iriye, "Culture and Power: International Relations as Intercultural Relations," Diplomatic History, 3 (Spring 1979), 115–28.

Emily S. Rosenberg, Spreading the American Dream: American Economic and Cultural Expansion, 1890–1945 (New York, 1982).

Reinhold Wagnleitner, Coca-Colonization and the Cold War: The Cultural Mission of the United States in Austria after the Second World War, trans. Diana M. Wolf (Chapel Hill, 1994).

Analyses of Cultural Transmission and Reception

John Fiske, Understanding Popular Culture (Boston, 1989).

Rob Kroes, R. W. Rydell, and D. F. J. Bosscher, eds., Cultural Transmissions and Receptions: American Mass Culture in Europe (Amsterdam, 1993).

Richard F. Kuisel, Seducing the French: The Dilemma of Americanization (Berkeley, 1993).

Nicholas Reeves, The Power of Film Propaganda: Myth or Reality? (London, 1999).

Janet Staiger, Interpreting Films: Studies in the Historical Reception of American Culture (Princeton, 1992).