Comparative and Transnational Histories of the Cold War

The depicted relationship between Roy Cohn and Donald Trump links law, real estate, and politics, as well as establishing a lineage of the American…

Nov 3, 2024 •

First Blood (1982)

The increasingly destructive competition between Vietnam veteran John Rambo and small-town Sheriff Will Teasle is at essence a battle between two rival…

Oct 22, 2024 •

This intimate depiction of a Chicago motorcycle club meditates on associational culture, the social changes of the 1960s, and how gender and generation…

Jul 14, 2024 •

Agency, Asymmetry, and Discourses on Global Politics

The ways in which the influence of other states, such as Israel and Russia, on Western politics is discussed frequently obscure more than they reveal.

Apr 8, 2024 •

Rambo III (1988)

In Rambo III, the eponymous soldier hero exhibits a strained relationship with the country he serves, and forms a far warmer one with the Afghan…

Jan 15, 2024 •

This 1970s-set South Korean military thriller, based on real events, provides a conspiratorial, personalised, and masculinised vision of the workings of…

Dec 20, 2023 •

The Living Daylights (1987)

The Living Daylights both deviated from and demonstrated some of the hallmarks of the Bond franchise in its depiction of the Soviet-Afghan War.

Dec 10, 2023 •

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