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Cold War Nostalgia in The Game

Nick Barnett Orcid Logo

Journal of British Cinema and Television, Volume: 15, Issue: 3, Pages: 436 - 452

Swansea University Author: Nick Barnett Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.3366/jbctv.2018.0431

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This article explores how nostalgia for both the Cold War and the 1970s became a key feature of the BBC drama The Game (2014). It argues that the serial situated the Cold War as a more stable era in international relations in which the enemy played by a specific set of rules, thus leading to a manag...

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Published in: Journal of British Cinema and Television
ISSN: 1743-4521 1755-1714
Published: 2018
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