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Sensory warfare in the global Cold War : partition, propaganda, covert operations
Title
Sensory warfare in the global Cold War : partition, propaganda, covert operations / edited by Bodo Mrozek.
ISBN
9780271097404
027109740X
Publication
University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2024]
Physical Description
x, 254 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Summary
"Examines how the Cold War used and changed human sensoria in different stages of the conflict from partition to propaganda and secret warfare, and contributes to a better understanding of sensory aspects in ongoing and future conflicts"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 16, 2024
Series
Perspectives on sensory history
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : sensory warfare in the global Cold War / Bodo Mrozek
Chocolate paratroopers and Eisenhower packages for Eastern Europe : nourishing partition through color and taste / Victoria Phillips
Between soir de Paris and red Moscow : olfactory front lines in Polish perfumery / Stephanie Weissman
Beyond the bamboo curtain : sensing the Chinese cultural revolution / Cyril Cordoba
Sensual sirens : gendering Berlin's Cold War telephony / Mark Fenemore
Breaking the aquatic sound barrier : hearing yourself and your enemy across the Taiwan Strait / Dayton Lekner
Listening to the voices of exile : Radio Free Europe in Romania / Andreea Deciu Ritivoi
Hearing Korea, seeing Cuba : NO-DO as sonic and visual propaganda in Francoist Spain / José Manuel López Torán
The smell of the Berlin Wall : olfactory border management at the inner-European frontier / Bodo Mrozek
Hallucinated sensations : brainwashing and mind control in psychochemical CIA experiments / Walter E. Grunden
To inform and deceive : sensory approaches in the military propaganda of Cold War Germany / Carsten Richter
Sniffing the enemy : chemical detection during the Vietnam War / Christy Spackman
Heroes at the Hindu Kush : seeing the Afghan War through the Soviet lens / Markus Mirschel.
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