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The Late and Post Cold War Order

Wham! 10 Days in China
This documentary about Wham!’s 1985 visit to China captures the complex combination of late Cold War politics, commercial imperatives, and cultural…
 • Dion Georgiou
The Living Daylights (1962)
This short James Bond story explores the ambiguities of the Cold War, the professionalism and hierarchies of intelligence work, and the limitations of…
 • Dion Georgiou
Bond, Rambo, and the Mujahideen
The Living Daylights and Rambo III both interwove the Soviet-Afghan War and late Cold War geopolitics more broadly into their very different generic…
 • Dion Georgiou
Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
This sequel played out a fantasy of refighting the Vietnam War, and celebrated the unrewarded bravery and sacrifice of America’s soldiers, while…
The Secret Agent
This political thriller draws upon motifs of carnival and film genre to evoke the paranoia, lawlessness, and inequality of 1970s Brazil.
 • Dion Georgiou
Refugee Narratives on The Reunion
Episodes of BBC Radio 4 programme The Reunion have given refugees to Britain opportunities to narrate their stories in dialogue with each other, but…
 • Dion Georgiou
The Apprentice
The depicted relationship between Roy Cohn and Donald Trump links law, real estate, and politics, as well as establishing a lineage of the American…
 • Dion Georgiou
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…
 • Dion Georgiou
Doubt (1991)
Jesus Jones’ breakthrough second album combines post-Cold War optimism, a rejection of moral certainties, and a multivalent response to postmodernity.
 • Dion Georgiou
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.
 • Dion Georgiou
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…
 • Dion Georgiou
12.12: The Day
This 1970s-set South Korean military thriller, based on real events, provides a conspiratorial, personalised, and masculinised vision of the workings of…
 • Dion Georgiou
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