ABSTRACT
Cinematic Cold War: The American and Soviet Struggle for Hearts and Minds may be the first Cold War study to place American and Soviet Cold War cinema in direct dialogue. Cinematic Cold War provides a way to begin to see past the basic dichotomy of good versus evil, and propaganda versus entertainment, to a more subtle understanding of the workings of ideology. Blade Runner is the third in a series of breakthrough science fiction films to emerge in the late 1970s and early 1980s, following Star Wars and Ridley Scott's 1979 Alien. The 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a film about doubles, about the substitution of one body for another that is identical to it externally, but lacking human "emotion". The Heavens Call was the Soviet Union's first postwar science fiction film, and tells the story of the space race as one of collaboration and Soviet sacrifice.
