Cultural Studies and Popular Culture

The first book to examine the depictions of Catholics in American popular culture during the critical period between the Great Depression and the height of the Cold War. Looks at the popular films, TV shows, radio programs, and magazine coverage that re-imagined the Catholic role in American culture.

Capitalizing on thousands of feet of accumulated footage captured by combat camera crews during the early years of the Korean War, a small group of US Army officers conceptualized a film series that would widen viewers' understanding of the service and its mission. Their efforts produced the documentary television series that in late 1951 would become The Big Picture.

The first systematic history of public relations at the CIA; an exploration of the CIA's culture of secrecy from the mid-1970s through the present.

The first book-length survey of cinema's vital role in the Cold War cultural combat between the U.S. and the USSR. Focuses on 10 films—five American and five Soviet, both iconic and lesser-known works—showing that cinema provided a crucial outlet for the global “debate” between democratic and communist ideologies.