COP3// Books Used

 Here is a summery of the books I used to help write the dissertation:

Nasa Art: 50 years of exploration was a great book in terms of idea generation in the early stages of both the written and practical element of the project. Firstly the for the written element it gave me the idea of the hero generation chapter from the way some of the astronauts were depicted in the paintings, secondly for the practical side, it made me more aware of the types of graphic design and creative processes used in the space exploration industry. 

 Miller, D., 1987. "Material Culture and Mass Consumption". Oxford, Basil Blackwell Ltd.
'Claims of relations to land are always made in terms of knowledge of the ancestors who created it; and the recognised rights of a social group are always rights to the representation of a particular ancestor' 

'life cycle ceremonies [marking] authority of the group over the land'

Miller notes how Veblen theorised that due to the lack of historical aristocracy in the US the 'leisure class' must use an 'overt display of wealth and consumption [to form] social hierarchies'  

 Again similar to the NASA Art book, cold war modern informed my of movements and key ideologies, not quoted or used in text, but as a frame of reference for my own understanding of the subject and the notions of style during the cold war.

Beyer, P., 1994. "Religion and Globalization" London, SAGE Publications Ltd.

'the family is the God-orientated institution of the marriage of one man and one woman together for a lifetime with their children. The family is the fundamental building block and basic unit of our society, and its continued health is a prerequisite for a healthy and prosperous nation. No nation has ever been stronger than the families within it. America's families are its strength, and they symbolise the miracle of America' 
'sexual discipline is the basis for moral discipline, which in turn is a prerequisite for national discipline'

 Burgin, V., 1996. "In Different Spaces". California, University of California Press. 

The wagon trains that moved the American descendants of European settlers from the US east to the western frontier allowed '[construction of] a new national identity away from national origins. As one category of displaced subject tumbles on the heels of another' 
 

Schirato, T. and Webb, J., 2003. "Understanding Globalization." London, SAGE Publications Ltd.

Introduces the concept of 'Counter Memory', the practice of 'the obfuscating or erasure of history'.

 Cobley, P. and Jansz, L., 2004. "Introducing Semiotics". Royston, Icon Books Ltd.

Using Levi-Strauss' structural mythemes (Cobley and Jansz, 2004) we could relate the frontier story as a Greek myth in of the birth of America, where she kills her paternal figure during the American revolution and goes on to the slaying of monsters and difficulty of balance represented by the ideological struggles of the American civil war and the cold war.  

 Not referenced in the dissertation but read sections to gain further understanding into the pursuit of post-colonialism in the cold war era by the US and to gain insight into how that reflected on what NASA was doing at the time.

Ekbladh, D. , 2010. "The Great American Mission. Modernization & The Construction of an American World Order". New Jersey, Princeton University Press.

The aim of the US at this time was to secure developing nations under their own political model 'after Mao's 1957 assertion that "the East Wind is prevailing over the West Wind."' following the rise and initial success of communism in China and North Korea whilst South Korea, under American guidance, had stagnated. 

Eisenhowers's 1953 to 1961 government, and those to follow believed that 'the core of the Cold War was psychological, "a struggle to capture symbols ... that express man's aspirations and thereby influence political behaviour,"  

 McLellan, D., 1979. "Marxism After Marx" 4th ed. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

he argues that the US military ambition is to maintain the status quo within other nations in areas concerning 'Social order, property relations, stability of contractual predictability, or any other basic conditions required by capital in its everyday life' and that the US achieves this by 'renewed militarism [and] pursuit of war without end and the threat of military intervention anywhere and anytime' 

McCamley, N., 2007. "Cold War Secret Nuclear Bunkers" 4th ed. England, Pen and Sword.

‘This shock embedded in the US psyche a fear of sudden, unprovoked attack that became an overarching national paranoia. Post-war, in the American military mind the Soviet Union became the aggressor’

The US reaction to its fear of the unknown ability of its enemies manifested in massive military expansion, ‘henceforth the whole of America’s scientific, military and industrial complex would be geared towards a cataclysmic east-west nuclear war.’

Again not referenced in text but a great source for general knowledge in regards to semiotics.

 Jones, P., 2012. Reimagining The Enemy. In: Althaus, F. Sutcliffe, M., 2012. "Drawing the Curtain: The Cold War In Cartoons." London, Fontanka Publications.

'[national ideologies had] shifted the competition between capitalism and communism away from the military arena and made culture a key realm of ideological competition"

Crowley, D. ,2008. "Posters of the Cold War." London, V&A Publishing.

'One of Armstrong's first actions as he stepped onto the dusty surface of the moon was to turn on a television camera that beamed pictures of the American triumph back to earth.'