Upstaging the Cold War: American dissent and cultural diplomacy, 1940-1960

Introduction : the new negotiators

Hollywood in the crucible of war

One world or two? The American postwar mission

Casting the Iron Curtain

Projectors of power : containment policy in Hollywood

Test patterns : making room for dissent in television

Guardians of the golden age : Cold War television and the imagined audience

The cultural battlefield in Europe

Afterword : the Cold War epic.