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Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe (Hardcover)
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Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe (Hardcover)
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During the Cold War, spy stories became popular on both sides of
the Iron Curtain, capturing the imaginations of readers and film
goers alike as secret police outfits quietly engaged in espionage
and surveillance under the shroud of utmost secrecy. Curiously, in
the post-Cold War period there are no signs of this enthusiasm
diminishing. With the opening of the secret police archives in many
countries in Eastern Europe comes the unique chance to excavate
many forgotten spy stories and narrate them for the first time.
Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe brings together a wide
range of Cold War spy stories from the Eastern Bloc and explores
stories compiled from the East German Stasi, the Romanian
Securitate, and the Ukrainian KGB files. This edited volume also
investigates spy narratives told in multimodal forms of
communication and representation, that is, stories told through
different and distinctive combinations of visual, verbal-aural,
musical, textual, and gestural signs. Crafted from a blend of
memory, fiction, and forensic evidence from the archived files,
these stories offer a rediscovery of curious and enigmatic
espionage events. By revisiting some little-known DEFA films and
their depictions of the East German spy as opposed to the sleek
Western James Bond type, Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe
explores old and new tropes in espionage films and television
dramas. It concludes with a close reading of the moral ambiguity
that is prominent in recent Hollywood spy films such as Bridge of
Spies and transatlantic television productions about Cold War
Germany such as Deutschland 83, which point to a new aesthetic of
surveillance and a new post-ideological depiction of the spy. These
stories of collusion and complicity, of betrayal and treason, of
right and wrong, and of good and evil call into question Cold War
certainties and divides.
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