Pause and Adaptation in the Post-War Period: The Re-establishment of Spanish-German Cultural Diplomacy (1945–1958)

2021 ◽  
pp. 325-347
Author(s):  
Marició Janué i Miret
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diplomacy ◽  
Post War

Locating the Real

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Pitassio
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diplomacy ◽  
Mutual Recognition ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
Film Noir ◽  
Film Production ◽  
Iron Curtain ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Us ◽  
Cultural Construct ◽  
Post War

The chapter considers neorealism as a cultural construct responding to historical needs. Neorealism aimed to mark a discontinuity with Fascism, rebuild the nation, and examine afresh its people, landscape, and neglected areas. For this reason, neorealism was a politically contested culture, producing both innovative works and formulaic but popular ones. In addition, the chapter scrutinises the role that neorealist film production played in post-war cultural diplomacy, which was based on mutual recognition among nations. Therefore, the chapter examines the international cultural exchange of Italian neorealism with countries on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Finally, the work focuses on the emergence of a transnational style in Europe and in the US, with neorealism holding a major role in it, together with film noir.

The Race for Revision and Recognition: Interwar Hungarian Cultural Diplomacy in Context

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Zsolt Nagy
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diplomacy ◽  
World's Fair ◽  
World War ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Small Power ◽  
Regional Powers ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Great Power Politics ◽  
Post War ◽  
First World

In the wake of the First World War there was an explosion of cultural diplomatic activity and Hungary was no exception. However, as this study shows, Hungary was very much unlike its regional and Western European counterparts. Unlike the Germans, Italians, British and French, Hungarians were not trying to spread Hungarian culture per se. Hungarians employed cultural diplomacy to alter the post-war order. Considering the weakness of its economy, the frailty of its nearly non-existent military and the lack of weight that the country carried on the international political stage, the Hungarian government saw cultural diplomacy as a promising and viable alternative for changing the post-war status quo. Demonstrating the country's contribution to European and indeed to universal culture and civilisation was the fundamental message of Hungarian cultural diplomacy. However, other regional powers also aimed to portray their contributions in the very same way. In the resulting competitive climate, the Hungarian political leadership not only believed that the international community needed to be enlightened about the historical and cultural deeds of the Hungarian nation but also aimed to prove Hungary's supposed cultural supremacy over its regional counterparts. This article traces these efforts and their main themes through domestic and international festivals and gatherings, amongst them the 1930 St. Emeric's Year, the Fourth World Scout Jamboree in 1933 and the 1937 Paris World's Fair. In the end, the essay examines the real and perceived utility and limitations of small power cultural diplomacy in the age of great power politics.

scholarly journals The Transatlantic Dynamics of European Cultural Diplomacy: Germany, France and the Battle for US Affections in the 1920s

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Marie Piller
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Diplomacy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Peace Treaty ◽  
Weimar Germany ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Post War ◽  
Interwar Europe ◽  
First World

The article explores the role of cultural diplomacy in Weimar Germany and France's competing efforts to win the sympathies and support of the United States after the First World War. In the post-war United States, both France and Germany used cultural initiatives to pursue their opposing visions of the new international order: France to maintain and extend wartime cultural alliances beyond the armistice and implement the provisions of the peace treaty; Germany to overturn these very alliances and build a desirable transatlantic ‘friendship’ in line with its efforts to revise the Versailles Treaty. By focusing on the Franco–German rivalry for US affinities, the article calls attention to the transatlantic dynamics of interwar cultural diplomacy. It shows that the emergence of German cultural diplomacy was strongly shaped by French competition for the affections of politically isolationist Americans and that, in general, the rapid expansion of cultural diplomacy in interwar Europe arose from mutual feelings of crisis, starkly competing ambitions as well as the rapid circulation of ideas and practices.

Post-war and Pre-war

2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-273
Author(s):  
SALLY MARKS
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Diplomacy ◽  
Terrorist Attack ◽  
The United States ◽  
International History ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Europe ◽  
Post War ◽  
The City ◽  
Silver Lining

In the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attack on the United States, a few book editors seeking a silver lining, however slight, suggested that the global shock might generate a revival of international history. As time passed, works gendering (or engendering) the landscape or re-imagining the city remained dominant in the historical profession. Some international historians addressing very recent periods found a bandwagon and focused on cultural diplomacy, which was largely a post-1945 innovation, but the rest of the field continued to languish. Only time will tell if the optimism of the editors was justified, but whether or not ‘9/11’ (as Americans term it) had any causal role, we now have four studies directed to the international history of Europe in the inter-war era.

scholarly journals A ‘Swedish Offensive’ at the World's Fairs: Advertising, Social Reformism and the Roots of Swedish Cultural Diplomacy, 1935–1939

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Nikolas Glover ◽  
Andreas Mørkved Hellenes
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Cultural Diplomacy ◽  
World's Fairs ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
Mega Events ◽  
Connected Network ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Post War ◽  
World’S Fairs

While recent scholarship has highlighted how participating countries at the interwar world's fairs competed by displaying ideological versions of modernity, the alternative national projections of smaller states have received less attention. This study of the Swedish national pavilions from Brussels 1935 via Paris 1937 to New York 1939 analyses how a loose but well-connected network of communicators over the course of three fairs responded to, and used, the evolving trends at these international mega-events. In the threatening international atmosphere of the late 1930s, the network convinced the Swedish government to seize the opportunities opened up by the crises of capitalism and democracy. The 1937 and 1939 pavilions showcased Sweden at the world's fairs as an example of the successful handling of economic and socio-political crisis, and the experience had a formative impact on the post-war institutionalisation of Swedish cultural diplomacy.

scholarly journals Traditional and popular cultural discourses within the post-war development of Japan’s cultural diplomacy

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-119
Author(s):  
Aurelijus Zykas
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Cultural Diplomacy ◽  
Communication Tools ◽  
Cultural Discourses ◽  
Government Institutions ◽  
The World ◽  
Post War ◽  
Important Shift

Vytautas Magnus UniversityThis paper analyses the development of post-war Japan’s cultural diplomacy since 1945, dividing it into four stages. It raises questions about what government institutions have been conducting cultural diplomacy, what the main international challenges have been, what communication tools have been used, and what kind of cultural discourses were prevalent during a particular stage. Special emphasis is put on the division of traditional versus popular cultural discourses within the cultural diplomacy of Japan, mainly concentrating on the important shift in this aspect that occurred at the beginning of the 21st century. This shift was marked by the government’s increasing shift towards popular culture discourse and the deliberate exploitation of that to promote Japan in the world.

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