From World War to Waldheim: Culture and Politics in Austria and the United States

Published by Berghahn Books 1999

From World War to Waldheim

Culture and Politics in Austria and the United States

Edited by: David F. Good and Ruth Wodak

Volume 2 in the series Austrian and Habsburg Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782388265

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About this book

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 Anschluß, 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."

Author / Editor information

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.

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.

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"It is a tribute to the editors, contributors, and the publisher that this little investigated aspect of history yields such rewards." · European Review of History

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface David F. Good and Ruth Wodak Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
THE SOUND OF FORGETTING MEETS THE UNITED STATES OF AMNESIA An Introduction to the Relations between Strange Bedfellows Reinhold Wagnleitner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part One. THE POLITICS OF AUSTRIAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS
Chapter 1. AMERICAN ATTITUDES TOWARD AUSTRIA AND AUSTRIAN-GERMAN RELATIONS SINCE 1945 John Bunzl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Chapter 2. BRUNO KREISKY’S PERCEPTIONS OF THE UNITED STATES Oliver Rathkolb Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
Chapter 3. BITBURG, WALDHEIM, AND THE POLITICS OF REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING Richard Mitten Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
Part Two. THE AUSTRIAN IMPACT ON AMERICAN CULTURE
Chapter 4. MASS EMIGRATION AND INTELLECTUAL EXILE FROM NATIONAL SOCIALISM The Austrian Case Egon Schwarz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Chapter 5. THE INFLUENCE OF AUSTRIAN ÉMIGRÉS ON THE DEVELOPMENT AND EXPANSION OF PSYCHOANALYSIS IN THE UNITED STATES AFTER 1945 Bernhard Handlbauer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Chapter 6. HEIMAT HOLLYWOOD Billy Wilder, Otto Preminger, Edgar Ulmer, and the Criminal Cinema of the Austrian-Jewish Diaspora Jonathan Munby Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
Part Three. AMERICA AND AUSTRIAN POLITICAL CULTURE
Chapter 7. ROBERTWISE’S THE SOUND OF MUSIC AND THE “DENAZIFICATION” OF AUSTRIA IN AMERICAN CINEMA Jacqueline Vansant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
Chapter 8. POLITICAL CULTURE AND THE ABORTION CONFLICT A Comparison of Austria and the United States Maria Mesner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Chapter 9. AMERICANIZATION, CULTURAL CHANGE, AND AUSTRIAN IDENTITY Edward Larkey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	210
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	236
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 256
Keywords: History: World War I; Cultural Studies (General)

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Published: April 1, 1999
ISBN: 9781782388265