Bøger i Culture, Politics and the Cold War serien

Tran Van Thuy is a celebrated Vietnamese filmmaker of more than twenty award-winning documentaries. Thuy's memoir, when published in Vietnam in 2013, immediately sold out. In this translation, English-language readers are now able to learn in rich detail about the life and work of this preeminent artist.

Patrick Hagopian shows that despite the US role in promulgating universal standards of international law and forming institutions where those standards can be enforced, the US has repeatedly refused to submit its own citizens and troops to the jurisdiction of international tribunals and failed to uphold international standards of justice in its own courts.

At a moment when American film reflects a deepening preoccupation with the Bush administration's War on Terror, this authoritative and timely book offers the first comprehensive account of Hollywood's propaganda role during the defining ideological conflict of the twentieth century: the Cold War.