Hollywood Movies, American Music and Cultural Policies Behind the Iron Curtain. Case Study: Cold War Romania, 1945-1971

JVF Conference Papers

This article is a reflection of a larger research project dealing with the US presence in Romania during the Cold War, building on this author’s previous work and focused on the presence of “America” in Romania during the inter-war period and in the 1940s. The study of the pre-Cold War period, as well as the awareness of the current situation were helpful in gradually building a chronological outline of the American presence in Romania for the whole 20th century, and provided the necessary historical framework for the current project.

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