History Department      

History 309 – CONTEMPORARY EUROPE – November 2, 2005  

COLD WAR CULTURE, 1945 - 1965  

TERMS TO KNOW:  

  1. Resistance values
  2. Ignazio Silone
  3. Albert Camus
  4. Existentialism
  5. Jean-Paul Sartre
  6. Simone de Beauvoir
  7. Heinrich Böll
  8. Britain’s “angry young men”
  9. Bertolt Brecht
  10. Samuel Beckett
  11. Italian “neo-realism”
  12. Roberto Rossellini
  13. Ingmar Bergman
  14. Alberto Giacometti
  15. Pope John XXIII
  16. Vatican II 

From Perry  

  1. Cassirer, “The Myth of the State”
  2. Hallowell, “The Crisis of our Times”
  3. George Orwell, “1984”
  4. Sartre, “Existence Precedes Essence”

 

QUESTION:  

Culture – the production of stories, images, objects, and sounds – always has some sort of issue or set of issues to grapple with.  Think of European culture in the 1950s or so – what were the, let’s say, THREE biggest issues culture had to engage?

 

 

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