ABSTRACT
This chapter examines Winston Churchill's role in the creation and development of the Anglo–American special relationship. The relationship of word and image, as W. J. T. Mitchell argues in Picture Theory, is not just about 'effects' and 'identity' but 'also engages the status of the metapicture in a wider cultural field, its positioning with respect to disciplines, discourses, and institutions'. The point is that these divisions were firmly embedded in institutional politics, culture and historiography until the advent of post-revisionism and further academic deconstructions, after the 1980s, and again after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The view of the cold war pitted on either side of the Iron Curtain remains a steady depiction. Collective memory is constantly refreshed by people who have an interest in perpetuating a particular memory or promoting a particular outlook. Churchill's words that endure most significantly in collective memory capture the geopolitical image.
