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13 février 2020
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Joaquín Saravia, « Good vs. Evil: The Construction of Soviet ‘Otherness’ in Rocky IV », PopMeC research blog, ID : 10.58079/szbf
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Download PDF version Both the Vietnam War disaster (1955-1975) and the Watergate scandal (1972-1974) had a negative impact in the self-perception of US citizens. As many other cultural manifestations, American films portrayed a sense of defeat in the Cold War context. That was the case of Rocky (1976) and Rocky II (1979), both patriotic and propagandistic calls to individual participation in the national renaissance (Hoff 1999, 187). Aiming at cheering up the nation, the advent of the Reag...