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9781571811035

From World War to Waldheim

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    9781571811035

  • ISBN10:

    1571811036

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-05-01
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books

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Summary

The growing internationalization of the world poses a fundamental question, i.e., through what mechanisms does culture diffuse across political boundaries and what is the role of politics in shaping this diffusion? This volume offers some answers through the case study of the relationship between two quite different states during the Cold War era - Austria, a small neutral country, and the United States, the reigning superpower. The authors challenge naive notions of cultural diffusion that posit the submission of small "peripheral" areas to the dictates of hegemonic powers at the "core." "Americanization" has no doubt taken place since 1945; however, local forces crucially shaped this process, and Austrian elites enjoyed considerable leeway in pursuing "Austrian" political objectives. On the other hand, with the expulsion of Vienna's cultural and intellectual elite after the AnschluÃY, the United States, more than any othercountry, became heir to the rich cultural legacy of "Vienna 1900," which profoundly shaped politics and culture in both its "high" and popular forms in postwar America. The relationship climaxed and came full circle with the unfolding of the Waldheim affair, which forced Americans and Austrians to reinterpret the meaning of the Nazi era for their own history in a confrontation with the "other." David F. Good is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, where he was also the Director of the Center for Austrian Studies until 1996. He has been Honorary Professor of Economic History at the University of Vienna and received the Austrian Medal for Arts and Sciences, First Class, in 1995. Ruth Wodak is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Vienna.

Author Biography

John Bunzl is Research Fellow at the Austrian Institute for International Affairs and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Vienna David F. Good is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota Bernhard Handlbauer is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist who practices in Salzburg and lectures at the University of Klagenfurt Edward Larkey is Associate Professor of German at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County Maria Mesner is Head of the Department of Social Sciences at the Renner Institute, Vienna, and Lecturer in Contemporary and Gender History at the University of Vienna Richard Mitten is Associate Professor of History at Central European University Jonathan Munby is Lecturer in American Studies at Lancaster University Oliver Rathkolb is Research Director of the Bruno Kreisky Archives Foundation and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for History and Society, and Associate Professor of History at the University of Vienna Egon Schwarz is Rosa May Distinguished University Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at Washington University Jacqueline Vasant is Associate Professor of German at the University of Michigan-Dearborn Reinhold Wagnleitner is Associate Professor of History at the University of Salzburg Ruth Wodak is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Vienna and Head of the research center Discourse, Politics, and Identity

Table of Contents

Preface vii
David F. Good
Wodak
Introduction 1(18)
Reinhold Wagnleitner
Part One: The Politics of Austrian-American Relations
American Attitudes toward Austria and Austrian-German Relations since 1945
19(17)
John Bunzl
Bruno Kreisky's Perceptions of the United States
36(15)
Oliver Rathkolb
Bitburg, Waldheim, and the Politics of Remembering and Forgetting
51(36)
Richard Mitten
Part Two: The Austrian Impact on American Culture
Mass Emigration and Intellectual Exile from National Socialism: The Austrian Case
87(22)
Egon Schwarz
The Influence of Austrian Emigres on the Development and Expansion of Psychoanalysis in the United States after 1945
109(29)
Bernhard Handlbauer
Heimat Hollywood: Billy Wilder, Otto Preminger, Edgar Ulmer, and the Criminal Cinema of the Austrian-Jewish Diaspora
138(27)
Jonathan Munby
Part Three: America nad Austrian Political Culture
Robert Wise's The Sound of Music and the ``Denazification'' of Austria in American Cinema
165(22)
Jacqueline Vansant
Political Culture and the Abortion Conflict: A Comparison of Austria and the United States
187(23)
Maria Mesner
Americanization, Cultural Change, and Austrian Identity
210(26)
Edward Larkey
List of Contributors 236(1)
Index 237

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